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Just paint the old prop grey and turn it on its side. No one will notice. (dubvee.org)
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Top: Lateral vector transporter from the Walker-class USS Shenzhou

Middle: Phase discriminators used to trap the Red Angel in the titular episode

Bottom (left): Exocomp

Bottom (right): Medical device from the Automated Repair Station from Dead Stop

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[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"We can use this for anything at any time."

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The Tucker Tube is just a crappier version of the Billups Tube lol.

But I respect that they don't even try to disguise those as anything else; just throw a new function out every appearance.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're right. The Billups Tube has three lasers.

Although I think he probably shouldn't have left off the protective shielding...

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 5 days ago

But...but....but....the third tube and lack of protective shielding is why it's seven picocochranes more efficient.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

I just saw these (again) in TNG "Datalore" 😂

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Including a ton of different shows!

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I swear I saw that in Airplane 2.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

It was on the moonbase. Just like Shatner

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

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?

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 30 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never noticed it had a Vaudwaar! That's so cool!

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 5 days ago

I don't think I noticed it when I watched it last, but Memory Alpha does confirm one of them is, so I'm going by that.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hey, at least they aren't using liquor bottles as droid heads. :)

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The owner of the Cantina doesn't like droids, so my head canon is that he's repurposed scavenged droid heads as drink dispensers. Kind of a "drinking from the skull of your enemy" type thing.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

This would have been my logic anyway. It's a rat hole bar in the middle of nowhere. Gotta reuse where you can and if you're going for cool aesthetic, droid head drink dispensers are pretty metal (pun intended)

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

wasn't that an aircraft engine irl?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Poor Peanut Hamper. She deserves better than life as a knee replacer.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Well Peanut Hamper is a stupid name!

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

They were hilarious. I love that it was their time to shine and they just noped out.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

The exocomp is so sophisticated it makes all other props obsolete

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

I remember they used that armor all throughout Power Rangers In Space/Power Rangers in the lost galaxy.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes you kit bash, sometimes you just need to kit grab.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

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