liminal space
February 14, 2023 5:00 AM Subscribe
Hey, you. Feeling a little tense? Take a long, restful stroll down a thread of starship corridors. [via: Twitter user @artoftrek] [Bonus: Star Trek Corridor Wiki]
Love starship corridors?
Ticonderoga’s Star Trek Set Tour, where the sound stages used for shooting the original series have been meticulously recreated, includes a corridor. It’s fascinating to see how a short curved section, which is precisely long enough for specific camera angles and no more, was used to simulate spaces throughout the ship. Change the lighting, mirror the film for a different direction, or swap out a wall prop et voilà, one corridor segment becomes the entire ship.
BTW, this tour is great fun and highly recommended, especially for those of us old enough to remember being dazzled by the original show. Shatner plans to visit this summer—the set layout exactly matches his memories and he loves spending time there.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:31 AM on February 14, 2023 [8 favorites]
Ticonderoga’s Star Trek Set Tour, where the sound stages used for shooting the original series have been meticulously recreated, includes a corridor. It’s fascinating to see how a short curved section, which is precisely long enough for specific camera angles and no more, was used to simulate spaces throughout the ship. Change the lighting, mirror the film for a different direction, or swap out a wall prop et voilà, one corridor segment becomes the entire ship.
BTW, this tour is great fun and highly recommended, especially for those of us old enough to remember being dazzled by the original show. Shatner plans to visit this summer—the set layout exactly matches his memories and he loves spending time there.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:31 AM on February 14, 2023 [8 favorites]
They did such a good job filling these spaces with people in the show that these shots actually feel really foreboding.
posted by shenkerism at 6:40 AM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by shenkerism at 6:40 AM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
Realizing that if anyone in this community experiences bathophobia to any degree, that this "restful stroll" may not actually be right for you.
posted by Fizz at 7:18 AM on February 14, 2023
posted by Fizz at 7:18 AM on February 14, 2023
Apparently when he was filming "The Godfather", Coppola forgot to film some insert shots of empty hospital corridors that are cut into to emphasize Michael and Vito are all alone. So Coppola recruited a film student friend of his, George Lucas, to take all the footage he filmed of people walking through the corridors and snip off the bits before "Action" and the bits after "Cut". And that's what they used.
All this is to say is that I look at these and wonder who just left or is about to enter this screenshot.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:03 AM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
All this is to say is that I look at these and wonder who just left or is about to enter this screenshot.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 8:03 AM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
Unfortunately, this just makes me think of the corridors in Severance.
posted by grandiloquiet at 9:16 AM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by grandiloquiet at 9:16 AM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
Exploration of abandoned spaceships (GoodReads) as a subgenre of science fiction.
posted by neuron at 9:32 AM on February 14, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by neuron at 9:32 AM on February 14, 2023 [4 favorites]
By coincidence, the recent thread on the classic Mac emulator includes the first Marathon game, and when you first appear, it seems like you're on a completely abandoned starship... until you fire off a shot. Then red markers appear on your HUD map, closing in...
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:48 AM on February 14, 2023
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:48 AM on February 14, 2023
You know your starfaring future is civilized when you can afford to carpet your starships.
posted by BungaDunga at 10:44 AM on February 14, 2023
posted by BungaDunga at 10:44 AM on February 14, 2023
You know your starfaring future is civilized when you can afford to carpet your starships.
Ugh, can you imagine the smell? I mean we've seen how story-lines play out on these ships, those carpets have SEEN some things.
But then again, maybe these are self-cleaning carpets with some future tech shit.
posted by Fizz at 11:09 AM on February 14, 2023 [3 favorites]
Ugh, can you imagine the smell? I mean we've seen how story-lines play out on these ships, those carpets have SEEN some things.
But then again, maybe these are self-cleaning carpets with some future tech shit.
posted by Fizz at 11:09 AM on February 14, 2023 [3 favorites]
They don’t need future tech cleaning shit, they already have the Vacuum of Space
posted by Jon_Evil at 11:54 AM on February 14, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by Jon_Evil at 11:54 AM on February 14, 2023 [9 favorites]
Even better, Ticonderoga’s Star Trek Set Tour was created by an Elvis impersonator.
I think it might be the most American story of all time.
posted by doctornemo at 12:04 PM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
I think it might be the most American story of all time.
posted by doctornemo at 12:04 PM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
Early season Next Generation uniforms, made of spandex, were infamously scrapped in part due to cast and crew complaints about their tendency to retain odors.
posted by AndrewInDC at 12:07 PM on February 14, 2023
posted by AndrewInDC at 12:07 PM on February 14, 2023
There are some wonderful Star Trek models people have put together in Steam VR. For a lifelong trekkie, it was pretty intense to walk the corridors of a Galaxy class ship.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 12:11 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 12:11 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
A maze of curved passages, almost all alike...
posted by Windopaene at 12:21 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Windopaene at 12:21 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
(The ship's computer says 'Plugh!')
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 1:30 PM on February 14, 2023
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 1:30 PM on February 14, 2023
Ticonderoga’s Star Trek Set Tour
I both love you and hate you for making me aware of this. I very much want to see this kind of thing, but it's very unlikely that that I'll be getting to upstate New York in the near future.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:54 PM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
I both love you and hate you for making me aware of this. I very much want to see this kind of thing, but it's very unlikely that that I'll be getting to upstate New York in the near future.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:54 PM on February 14, 2023 [2 favorites]
That is some yummy carpeting.
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:55 PM on February 14, 2023
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:55 PM on February 14, 2023
But then again, maybe these are self-cleaning carpets with some future tech shit.
It’s hard to believe this hasn’t been a Lower Decks bit.
posted by curious nu at 7:13 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
It’s hard to believe this hasn’t been a Lower Decks bit.
posted by curious nu at 7:13 PM on February 14, 2023 [1 favorite]
Star Trek, they just transport them out and run them through the replicator filters and transport them back into place.
posted by zengargoyle at 8:39 PM on February 14, 2023
posted by zengargoyle at 8:39 PM on February 14, 2023
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