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Creating The Original Enterprise's Shuttlebay

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:50 am    Post subject: Creating The Original Enterprise's Shuttlebay Reply with quote

FORGOTTEN TREK: Creating The Original Enterprise's Shuttlebay
By Nick Ottens, Forgotten Trek

Matt Jefferies had anticipated the need for a "flight deck" or "hangar deck" when he designed the original Enterprise, providing space in the aft section of the engineering hull for just such a location. But when the episode "The Galileo Seven" was supposed to unveil it, there was no way budget would allow for a full-scale set of bay to be erected.



Jefferies recalled in an interview with Star Trek: The Magazine 1 (April 2000) how the "curved clamshell doors at the back" of the ship "didn't look too much different from a lot of today's modern hangars on the inside. He took care to scale the bay's design to the shuttlecraft that were supposed to fit in it. "The shuttlebay itself was only in miniature."



Richard C. Datin was commissioned to build the maquette. Star Trek: Communicator 133 (June/July 2001) quotes him explaining how the starboard side of the miniature was supposed to be removable so the scene could be filmed from more than one side. "However, for whatever reason, the starboard wall was not made to be removable and filming of the miniature could only be done looking back to the clamshell bay doors. Hence the familiar scene from "The Galileo Seven".

The clamshell doors were hand operated as were cables that controlled the revolving platform in the center of the set. Footage shot at Dunn's Film Effects was replicated throughout the rest of the series when a scene called for it. The maquette was probably destroyed.

When the episodes of the The Original Series were digitally remastered in 2006, the shuttlebay scenes were replaced with CGI imagery. Max Gabl did the matte painting which premiered in the remastered version of "Journey to Babel.— Much more detail can obviously be seen and the access corridors to the sides of the landing bay are extended. In the remastered version of "The Galileo Seven," a second shuttlecraft was inserted to make the scene more visually interesting.
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Nick Ottens is the man behind the Forgotten Trek website. The site bills itself as "the largest resource about the production and behind the scenes of Star Trek." Online since 2002, it features concept art, photographs and interviews, some of which has never been published before.. or until now. Be sure to visit the site at Forgotten Trek and keep an eye on StarTrek.com for future pieces from the site's archive.

LINK: http://www.startrek.com/article/forgotten-trek-creating-the-original-enterprises-shuttlebay


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For some reason, years ago 'maquette" became the thing to call models. People used it incorrectly then, and they use it incorrectly now.

A maquette is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture. It is often used to get an idea of what the finished MODEL will look like. Until a few years ago, the only people I ever heard refer to Maquettes were sculptures.

The Enterprise hanger deck is not a maquette, it is either a large model, or model set.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a set maquette Blithe Spirit (1945).



I deliberately chose NOT to show the famous TOS set model as it is NOT a set maquette but a scale model to show how the various parts of the set would have looked like together. Many of that sets pieces were wild and when not being filmed were put out of the way to make room for the cameras, lighting sound (etc.) equipment.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me, Butch has just shown a perfect visual definition of what a maquette is.

Butch, you wouldn't happen to know how big that maquette is by any chance? The detail is fantastic, and the craftsmanship is beautiful. I love seeing those kinds of things, thanks for the photo.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's about 2 feet long 8 inches deep and 9 inches high.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's another great example of how Billdogtrekker offered an in-depth look at the creative efforts that went into the creation of the sets on TOS!

Damn, this stuff is news to me! Shocked

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Krel wrote:
A maquette is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture. It is often used to get an idea of what the finished MODEL will look like. Until a few years ago, the only people I ever heard refer to Maquettes were sculptures

David.

Which makes me wonder: What happened to the maquettes from Forbidden Planet?
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