The Original 1960s Enterprise Set: a tour of 'trek set one-b'
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Unhappy with the quality of my last video, I thought I would salvage a little dignity with this video. Here, we tour a re-creation of the stage set for the original series of 'Star Trek', circa 'Journey to Babel'. I call this 'Trek Set One-B'. I hope you enjoy it.
Music: ‘Digital Ambient for Meditation’, by Sergey Safikanov from Pixabay.
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It’s a larger set than I had thought… Excellent Video 👍
So much imagination and wonder were created by these sets, writers and actors. Very grateful to have grown up in those times. Great video! Thanks!
Now we get CGI crap. Boooo.
You should check out the Star Trek museum in Ticonderoga, New York. It's a recreation of the entire set of the original series, with a recreation of the set from TNG being built. The tour guides will explain a great deal about how things were done and how props were made. Apparently, the prop designers, being on a limited budget, kept swiping things from the cafeteria. Dr. McCoy's handheld scanner for his tricorder, for instance, was actually a salt shaker they swiped. From what they said, William Shatner goes there a couple of times a year for events and to relive his youth.
I visited there about two years ago. Absolutely fantastic tour...as close to the real thing as you can get. Sitting in the Captain's chair on the bridge was WOW! Anyone with even a passing interest in Star Trek should go.
The Neutral Zone in Georgia is a nice recreation too. I went in spring 2023. I hear they are moving to a new location. I hope it is central Florida.
I had no idea Ticonderoga was building a TNG recreation too! Awesome 🖖🏿
Does the recreation TNG bridge still look like my dentist's office?
@@rudolphguarnacci197 They didn't show it to us. I got the impression they had only just started when we were there in May of last year. The only thing visible was the entrance, which they made to look like a holodeck arch.
Yes! I enjoyed this video! Along with many of your others!
Probably the most recognizable and iconic set ever created.
Given how much they cram into the space, it’s incredible to think how much (fore)planning must have gone into working out what they’d need - to create a truly believable, immersive world - and where to put it.
Today: "Oh you need a new set? let me shove this USB stick in and load one up on the screens behind you -.-"
I'm sure the editing must've been *hell on earth* though
I enjoy your work, and I'm always pleasantly surprised when a new one arrives. Keep it up! I'm sure its a much more complex question, but I'd love to see the motion picture/ star trek II set layout. I know that was transformed into the TNG set, but I can't visualize how it would have looked. Keep up the good work!
I've been to the Original Star Trek Studio tour in Ticonderoga NY, looks just like your renderings :D
The Neutral Zone set recreation in Georgia is really well done. They have closed for the summer and I hear they are moving to a new location.
It’s common in the production world to reuse sets. It’s a good model. Well done.
Very nice. Looks pretty accurate, I've been to the recreation in Ticonderoga NY and it looks pretty much the same - they have a little hall from Engineering to the turbolift or something so you can have the experience of the doors opening and seeing rhe bridge. But otherwise it looks identical to what you have from what I can remember. If anyone is thinking of going, it is an amazing experience.
I'm just glad I was able to hear you this time.
I have been on a "wedge" of the bridge set at an exhibition. Surprising how crudely constructed it was given how good it looked on screen.
Very nice digital recreation of the set. Now I can see and imagine what the studio was like. Thank you for this video!
You've clearly worked hard, and to great effect, but I wish you'd linger longer on each space, rather than waste time constantly melting back into a black screen.
Good Point
That's a super cool model, I'd love to see more views of it
Fantastic work!
I really enjoyed that, I never realised the set was so huge. Thank you.
You always do a awesome job.
This set has always been a dream of mine to build in a smaller scale for display. Thanks for recreating the design and putting up this excellent tour!
Lovely work, mate! Thank you :)
Gen X trekkie here. Great video! Thank you
I’ve been to the set for Star Trek Continues in Kingsland, GA and it’s amazing! Good job on your model!
I have to and concur 100%! They are closed for the summer and are moving to a new location. Its called "The Neutral Zone".
Sadly, you brought this on yourself, sir. I would ❤ to see you also do a video of this for the films, TNG, DS9 (a fav), VOY and ENT. PIC too with those ships.
See! I cannot control my joy for these video you’ve done! 😂🎉❤
Addition - While watching I wondered if you had thought of showing those set parts in the locations on the ship, with or without modifications to the corridors. A lot of work, but hey, you planted those seeds with all the prior videos. 😉🤣🎉
Such a shame they only made 1 season of Picard.... ahem.
Beautiful work as always 👍 Love those corridor Easter eggs 😂😂
Love it. I've done a fair amount of broadcast set design in my career and this is fascinating. The TOS set design was an exceptionally brilliant design from a television production POV. More set design videos please!
Very interesting video and very well done. Congratulations!
Nicely done. It’s nice to see how all the sets were laid out in the studio.
So cool. Thanks for putting this together!
15 or 20 years ago the bridge set of the original Enterprise was touring the country and I got to see it Asat the art institute in Detroit. I was the only one there for the first few minutes and got to sit in the captain’s chair.
Wonderful work, I love all your videos, thank you so much!!
Very nice work indeed.
Fantastic. Would love to see this done for all the sound stages for each series.
Another thumbs up! Thank you for sharing!
Love your videos. Keep them coming🎉
I loved this. Thank you!
VERY NICE JOB!!! I just stumbled across your website and I very much look forward to looking at your other Star Trekrenditions. P. S. I got a kick out of the Easter egg door signs!
Nice job! It would be amazing if somehow we could clik on a link to take us to a site where the viewer could navigate around the entire set at will, similar to the way some real estate sites let you tour a property up for sale.
Very cool video.
Very good video.
As I recall reading in another write-up about the series production, all of the walls were of 1/4" plywood, so that they would be light to move when necessary for camera work. And when the series was cancelled and the set was torn down, all of the wood was donated to USC, which used it in various stage and student projects over the next decade
I really love this video.
Great work
You should help out Mr Trek who's making a whole 1/100 and 1/25 scale enterprises
Good stuff!
I will say this was a very very cool setup very cool sets I love the interconnectivity what a thrill it would have been to have worked on this set.
Probably after a while it became a big pain to the stage hands constantly moving sections around to accommodate shooting.
Awesome!👍🏻
Well done!
I did enjoy it, thank you
An impressive effort to showcase. And yes I agree let’s all clear off “hate” in general. Our massive brains give us each vastly superior alternatives to that.
Fantastic job as always
great job 🖖🏼
All your videos are awesome, don't blame yourself...
Oh to create another life size of this set is a dream.
Saratoga Springs has one that you can tour.
So informative had no idea. Impressed!
The corridor set built for Star Trek Phase II, and adapted for the movies and later for TNG, took the 'modular corridor' idea Matt Jeffries came up with for TOS and ran with it. The angular wall panels on the later sets could be lifted out and replaced with completely different panels entirely to suggest corridors on different decks, and indeed on different starships if necessary.
Very cool.
Fascinating!
Great stuff!
Vic Mignogna gave a tour of the replica Trek sets used for his 'Star Trek Continues' mini-series. Apparently it was all put together with the original set designs in mind, and those were modular and built to have removable sections so that the bridge, for example, could have 360º camera rotation and still look like one continuous room.
They should have kept this entire set as a museum. Of course they had not idea what it would become. People would pay $500 to go on a tour of this set today if it existed. Back then, it was just a tv show. I read the book "The making of star trek" from the 70's. It's a very long detailed book and a must read.
The Neutral Zone in Georgia is a very nice recreation. They are closed for the summer and are moving to a new location.
Very nice work! Thanks!
Fantastic work, as always.
Love your work!
Whenever someone makes a model of the set, I always look for LN's bicycle hanging from the rigging.
it's more complicated than I expected, especially the medbay. Also I didn't know so much of it was actually connected- I guessed more of it was just jammed in together with junk around it.
Very good video. I especially love the way you release them during my insomnia hours, where I live. I find them very relaxing. Thanks!
Very cool! Thanks for making this.
The last video on captain's spaces was of fine quality, we just happened to differ in our perspectives regarding leadership, and that's not a problem among adults.
Walking around such a large and integrated set must have been helpful for the actors to feel the part.
So, then, not only were all of these sets kept standing during production, but they were actually connected by working corridors? That's fascinating. I would've figured that the bridge and maybe engineering and sickbay, and a shorter length of corridor would've been standing, but not this much.
I attended elementary school in the greater Los Angeles area, and one of my classmates claimed that his father designed the controls on the bridge set - most likely his dad was an electrician who did the wiring. That was, to my young ears, a bigger boast than if the kid had told me his dad was the mayor of LA!
Very nice. We should do a collaboration around the interior of the original ship.
YES! That would be awesome for him to render the final version of your 1/25th scale ship.
If possible, I would love to see you do similar videos on The Motion Picture sets and how they were modified over the years to portray the 1701 refit, Enterprise-D, Enterprise-A, and Voyager before finally being dismantled after 25 years to make room for the new sets for Star Trek: Enterprise.
Lovely, thanks!
Very interesting tour into The principal Deck of The SpaceShip Interprise.Good video my friend.
'Wild Walls' aka 'movable sets', were invented by Alfred Hitchcock and if you watch his movies you can see where he used them and how he used them to make them extremely effective and nearly a stand alone character in themselves. The old Universal Studios 'Alfred Hitchcock Pavilion' told the story. That was an under appreciated attraction, I loved it.
Great work!😎👍🏼👍🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🕊
Ticonderoga NY. Original Star Trek Set Tour. Built from the original set blueprints and a bucket list destination for a TOS fan. BTW they are building a Enterprise D bridge now
I've walked those corridors many times at Neutral Zone Studios in Kingsland, Georgia!
I have only visited once, but it was truly amazing!
I quite enjoyed this video. I also enjoyed your digital models. I left your video a Like and this comment to help you with the UA-cam algorithm. Have a pleasant day.
🖖😎👍Very cool indeed!.
Dignity fully restored 🙂
Somehow it never occurred to me that the sets were connected. Like I thought it was a hanger full of loose sets
4:25 I always thought that the "red room" with the triangles in the Engineering section was the Impulse drive. I guess if it were to sync with the TMP refit, the "red room" would be directly between the warp engine pylons.. though I always thought the Jeffries Tubes went up the pylons (?).. it can be so confusing.
Great video. I made it a life goal to visit stage 31 at Paramount- Hallowed ground.
Wow, I never knew how much I NEEDED this video until I saw it! I've been so absorbed in the fictional world of Star Trek since childhood that I totally forgot that these sets all had a real location in a studio somewhere. This is fascinating! PLEASE can you do the same for TNG, I would love to see that? Maybe VOY and DS9 too?
I do like how you've lit up each set in turn to slowly reveal everything - it would be better not to 'spoil' this by showing the whole thing early on in the video, just reveal it all room by room. Also, I don't like all the fades to black and would rather have one continual shot!
If possible, it would also be nice to know which way is north and how big the entire building is relative. If you have time another thing you could do is overlay the studio set over the enterprise itself to show how much smaller the real set was! :-)
Nice work building the model of the original Enterprise studio set. Just one bit of feedback - your fade to black between different views are too long; it feels like I spent a third of the time looking at a black screen rather than your painstakingly constructed set as you move around.
Take me back, brother! Well done!
Awesome🥰
You can tour this set in person according to the actual studio specs from 1967 in Ticonderoga, NY
Nice little easter eggs there :)
That was so cool. While watching I was thinking how cool it would be to finish the Enterprise going by cutaway plans to the entire ship. I don't know how canon the layout is -- maybe it was just one person's idea of what the layout of the ship was. I just searched "original enterprise cutaway layout" and there's hundreds of them.
So I bet you'd love to do the whole ship? 😉 Lol . Then maybe the D. Lol. Seriously, what might be cool to do would be an aircraft carrier or battleship, or the Titanic. ...
Btw, can you strap on VR goggles and walk those corridors?
Neato!
I can honestly say, “I didn’t hate it.”❣️
An engineering room with a curved corridor makes sense - for Impulse Engineering. Which prior to the refit was a separate room from Warp Engineering.
The Refit of course added a "long tube" through the "neck" making them one room. (The refuse helium atoms from the Fusion Reactor of the Impulse Engine was fed down through the Interconnecting Dorsal to Main Engineering, while Antimatter was fed up from a storage tank along the keel - which could be jettisoned in the event of emergency. These met, at the Intermix Chamber/Warp Core, and the resulting energies transferred along a horizontal line, before transferring up the pylons to the Nacelles.)
Redressing the same set was a huge cost savings for production and this ability was peddled to the CBS studio brass to make an elaborate sci-fi series like Star Trek look affordable...After listening intently (and taking notes), CBS declined Star Trek in favor of Lost in Space. This is from the book "The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whifield.
And I ❤ this
I guess you could take engineering to be like the conning tower or something. It was always thought to be somewhere on the main section, being a control station, but that doesn't explain the Jeffries tubes leading to the nacelles being near the bridge, and going to the wrong place. A keen observer would winder why the matter/anti-matter mixer was by the living quarters two. I don't you're supposed to pay a lot of attention to the curving corridor, unless you are being affected by one of the many dilemmas that the crew faced on board.
There are in fact - TWO separate and distinct Star Trek Original Series sets existing in real life currently. One is in Ticonderoga, NY. And was used for the first serious attempt at a fan-made continuation of the original series "Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II" headed by James Cawley.
The second set - made for ViC Mignogna's "Star Trek Continues" currently resides in Kingsland, Georgia.
Both studio sets have also been "borrowed" by other shorter lived Star Trek fan series. Both use the original Desilu set plans as their starting point. Although Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II made some minor modifications when "Phase II" introduced the Phase II refit Enterprise - using the aborted concepts of the TV series that later became Star Trek: The Motion Picture to make a sort of "In-between" version of the Enterprise - midway in design between the original TV Series look at the Movie Refit.
Matt Jefferies built a scale model (approx. 1/32 scale) of the Studio 9 set so that guest directors could familiarize themselves with them without having to go to the trouble of pulling them out of storage or anything else while planning shots. The bridge in this model was divided up even into moveable wedge sections just like the real one, and the Main Engineering part even has the overhead arched ceiling beams, again like the real one and a reminder that it was likely intended for the "real" engineering spaces to be in the secondary hull. There are even little gold, blue, and red shirted figures placed about it.
This model also has the Auxiliary Control room, which you forgot to include in your rendering of the set. Interestingly, like the bridge set, it is depicted as standing alone from the corridors/sickbay, and cabins.
I would very much like for a model of this to be made available for purchase. Would have to be smaller though.
Visuals are great..... please do it again at 0.25x speed so that we can truly appreciate it
This gives a much clearer idea of what the stage looked like. Always thought it would be smaller somehow. Also, what's wrong with the previous video? It was as great as any of the others