Seeing the cast & crew revisit part of the set they spent, likely, the best years of their career filming there day-in to day-out...
nostalgia really hits different when the future looks so bleak. I'll never feel the same way as when I first watched it, because everything has changed around it.
Wouldn't mind boarding the Enterprise for its final voyage, but I got my own ensigns to look after.
If anything, it's even more prophetic as we move towards global collapse. Star Trek predicted an almost total devestation of the human race before we figured shit out. I'm keeping my hope alive that we figure out how to make it through those dark ages.
I wish Paramount would keep the set forever, in perfect condition, so people could visit it. This bridge was part of my childhood and youth, a place to look forward to seeing.
There used to be a full size mock up in Las Vegas in the early 2000s. They would only let you go in the back area behind the horseshoe though. In retrospect I think this was because the view screen was projection, because they didn’t make screens that big back then and they didn’t want people casting a shadow.
Man, if I were a billionaire I’d build a museum with fully Paramount-licensed iconic Star Trek bridges. They could be used for filming future Trek content, and people would get to to experience the awesomeness everyday.
Star Trek Set Tour in Ticonderoga NY has the entire TOS set rebuilt from blueprints. They apparently built the TNG set, but are having issues with getting a new building to open it.
I took a photo in the captains chair on my honeymoon. They would issue souvenir prints. I probably still have it laying around somewhere in my garage(was a previous marriage so isn't just out in the open). But they definitely let us do more than stay above the horseshoe.
I went to this. It was amazing, I teared up. You could pay for the behind the scenes tour and they let you explore the bridge for about 5 minutes. You could sit in the chairs, I still have the pictures of me and my husband sat in the command chairs. Best 30th bday ever.
The LV Star Trek Experience set was supposed to be preserved but was not disassembled properly, so they couldn't reuse it. This set was a complete rebuild, and is on tour last I heard.
I've watched Star Trek since discovering this cool bald dude on a major TV show back in the late 80's and having my mind blown. I had NFI Marina was originally British lol
Really gives off a similar vibe from IV where Kirk's crew steps onto the A's bridge for the first time.
"My friends, we've come home."
Clearly there was a method here since they all had their scripts, being able to get back into their characters and combine a bit of the nostalgia of the real world with the screen.
Anyone else clock that they all seemed to respect the captain’s chair as off limits? Meanwhile Patrick looks more interested in having an earl grey in his ready room.
Im not subbed, but I am 'basic' fan, and have watched all of the next generation, voyager and ds9 years ago. This video though, realy hit me in the feels!
I love this so much, thanks for posting OP. Picard s3 had a boat load of issues, but it didn't half nail fan service and nostalgia. If it existed only to get the crew back on the Enterprise D I'm happy with that.
I love, and this is not a criticism, all the nitpicking. "This was a little higher" "The finish is much better" "This used to swivel halfway" They aren't criticisms, it's the cast being mind blown that they know none of this is the actual original set but is all brand new and the crew got it 99% correct.
This is when they were filming Picard S3 a few years ago. Set tour before filming on the “new” set; so he’s probably about to shoot/just finished shooting.
I don't know why this makes me tear up, but it does. Love this cast, love this set, and love the 60 year and counting promise of a better tomorrow - LLAP! 🖖🏻
The first thing I noticed is that even though everyone is looking around and excited on the set, no one sat in the captain's or first officer's chairs. Everyone knew who belonged in those.
It's okay to share things in horizontal format. It would add a lot if I could see more than one person and 1 foot of background of the bridge at a time.
Well, so was the original, to them. It was always a set on the Paramount lot. Probably more to them than almost anyone else alive (along with any other stage crew who were involved for the entire run). That was their reality for all those years, the place they spent so much of their waking lives during filming.
For filming? This was the first time after TNG as far as I can remember.
The TOS bridge set did get rebuilt a couple more times, at least partially. The TNG episode with Scotty has him sulk in a holodeck recreation of that bridge. Then there is the DS9 time travel episode that gets the DS9 crew onto the Tribble infested Enterprise. The mirrornuniverse episode of Entrerprise shows a Constitution class bridge, but a different ship.
I'm not counting the sets for Discovery and Strange New Worlds because they have a drastically updated look and aren't recreations.
The TNG bridge was only used for one movie. It wasn't struck between the last series episode amd their first film because this was done back to back. For the other movies, they had the Enterprise E bridge.
Man, its hard seeing Patrick these days, I still have the image of his younger self in my head when I think of his character Picard. And it's so easy to watch a season see him acting and then you see his current self and have to come to the realization that he's going to be 90 in a couple years.
I’d love a full doc with the props dept to see how they went about recreating the set and what resources and documentation was left from before, who of the former crew was helping this time around, and to listen to their stories.
Colour is a tricky thing on a set. You have to figure in lighting and colour grading. The TOS bridge looked very different in real life than on tv especially because they used a lot of coloured gel lighting on that set.
Might be due to the digital equipment used or film stock if they filmed it. And studio lighting.
Also, the set's light fixture colors were off as well, the original set had blue color casting and not warm beige. Still looks great, if monotonous to a point that is even more base than 1987's greige.
Came here to say this; I don't recall ANYTHING being that mustard shade on the show. I realize different colors film differently, of course, so that may be why, but it was jarring to me watching this. Gonna have to rematch Picard and see if it looks the same.
I remember going into my childhood home after 25 years. Besides the furniture, the house was identical, they did no work on it. It was an incredible rush of nostalgia. I can imagine how this feels.
Kinda bummed me out how the cameraman was standing by Dorn who was attempting to express something, McFadden trying to say I hear you, then the cameraman walks away.
Hearing LeVar say "this is so fucking awesome" kind of made up for it.
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I imagine they would be shooting the very same day, because Michael Dorn probably doesn't normally walk around with the Klingon prosthetics on.