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    I could totally see that station being an ancestor of the Exocomps. That’s one of my favorite ENT episodes

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      It would explain why the exocomps are so good at engineering tasks. They are descended from B’Elanna.

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      Oh, I like that theory. The station survived at the end, so maybe Doctor Farallon didn’t invent them rather than find and repair one.

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        He could have even invented them, after studying the station. You can’t tell me the Federation wouldn’t want self-repairing ships, even if O’Brien would hate it

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          Now I really wish a current / future show would revisit that station in some way. It started rebuilding itself after Archer destroyed it, and it was already presumed to be at least several hundred years old (one of the abducted species was a Vaudwaar), so I would imagine it’s still out there somewhere.

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    One of the things I liked best about The Orville was its homage to the TOS aesthetic. “Just go to IKEA, buy a bunch of tables, chairs, and bookshelves and paint them.”

    Cheap sets are a key to the charm of Star Trek. When it gets too CGI-ey you know they’re off base.

    coughDiscoverycough

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      Cheap sets are a key to the charm of Star Trek. When it gets too CGI-ey you know they’re off base.

      Arguably the same for special effects too. TOS is nice in that way, since it feels like the only show that doesn’t go overboard with the pyrotechnics.

      Even TNG had support beams, explosions, and an entire welsh quarry rain down from the ceiling, and that just got a bit silly.

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        and that just got a bit silly.

        Not as silly as literal flamethrowers on the bridge which spew fire when the outside of the ship is hit in any location.

        I never liked the whole “we can’t build a ship in which the bridge electronics are even semisafe” let alone believing that there’s thick gaspipes in several locations.

        Who designed these?

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    K so I helped build that transporter room. And I helped build the one we built inside it because this one didn’t look star-trek enough. Look closely at the Discovery’s transporter room.

    Also fun story: when I was working on this (with hundreds of others) one job that took forever was the rectangular black tiles that make up the back wall. I spent days, I think it was close to 1500 of them, plywood laminated to some sort of firm sound foam, run through the table saw for each of the beveled edges… Carefully mounted to this bracket thing that the welding guys must have built. It was one of the earliest sets they wanted done, and they ended up using it for some early promo pictures of our hero…

    One of the earliest released shots of Michael were in the transporter room, and dead centre behind her on the wall of a hundred tiles, is one super crooked tile. I can’t find the pic right now, but it’s obvious… I don’t know how nobody saw it during the shoot, or at least in post…

    I facepalmed so hard. All our hard work and we looked like we hired a toddler last minute.

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      I guess it makes a kind of practical sense from a production budget standpoint. They make some fairly complex props that are used in a single episode, so it’s understandable they may want to use them a few times.

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        Kitbashing is a long an storied tradition. It was one of the things Adam Savage talks most about from this time at ILM.

        Here’s a vid I watched a few months back that shows off some of the best ships that the props department had to make in a hurry.

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    They did this with the body armor from Starship Troopers as well. There was at least one episode of Power Rangers where it was used.

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      And it’s used as the body armor for the Alliance military in Firefly! One of the first times I can recall picking up on Hollywood prop recycling.

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    From these screenshots it’s very easy to tell which one is Star Trek and which one is NuTrek.