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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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. 😉🤣🎉
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!
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.
Yes, that is extremely irritating and makes the video almost impossible to watch. One has to assume it’s done because each section is an independent model, not part of a connected whole.
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.
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.
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
This was really cool, Didnt know the set was so big and elaborate, its almost like how the actual saucer section would be laid out in places, like leaving the transporter room goes into the actual curved coridoor
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
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.
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.
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.
Incredibly smart set design. You can do huge amounts of storytelling with just this, and you don't have to build much from episode to episode. Plenty of visual and technical variety, with only the initial build cost really dragging on your budget.
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! :-)
Very nice. In season 2 they added an upper section to the engineering section. This exact set is the one recreated for the Star Trek Continues Web Series, which is now an official set you can tour in New York.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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?
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 TH-cam algorithm. Have a pleasant day.
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!
Really enjoyed this. Excellent model. It’s interesting that both TOS and TNG had such large sets for sickbay. It’s unavoidable, but a lot of set for a fairly boring part of the ship. If I may offer some advice, I would suggest not referring to your own production concerns or people’s gripes in your videos. Your work is excellent, and there will always be detractors online. Your videos will feel more polished if you don’t apologise for the inevitable reality that your work is going to improve over time, and render your older work less impressive in your own eyes. If you feel you have to improve on a video, just post the better video unapologetically. Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed seeing it laid out as it was.
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.
It’s a larger set than I had thought… Excellent Video 👍
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.
Probably the most recognizable and iconic set ever created.
The only television set that has been recreated many many times - at least three !!!
Very nice digital recreation of the set. Now I can see and imagine what the studio was like. Thank you for this video!
Gen X trekkie here. Great video! Thank you
I really enjoyed that, I never realised the set was so huge. Thank you.
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
Yes! I enjoyed this video! Along with many of your others!
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 interesting video and very well done. Congratulations!
Wonderful work, I love all your videos, thank you so much!!
I'm just glad I was able to hear you this time.
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.
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.
It’s common in the production world to reuse sets. It’s a good model. Well done.
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".
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!
Beautiful work as always 👍 Love those corridor Easter eggs 😂😂
You always do a awesome job.
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.
That's a super cool model, I'd love to see more views of it
Another thumbs up! Thank you for sharing!
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!
Very nice work indeed.
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!
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.
Fantastic work!
Nicely done. It’s nice to see how all the sets were laid out in the studio.
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!
Very interesting tour into The principal Deck of The SpaceShip Interprise.Good video my friend.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 🖖
Fantastic. Would love to see this done for all the sound stages for each series.
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 what I was gonna say. I get just a little bit of a look at the set and then it’s gone.
Yes, that is extremely irritating and makes the video almost impossible to watch. One has to assume it’s done because each section is an independent model, not part of a connected whole.
I first saw the studio Enterprise plans fifty years ago in Whitfield's book _The Making of Star Trek._
You brought them to life.
Lovely work, mate! Thank you :)
Fantastic job as always
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.
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.
So cool. Thanks for putting this together!
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
Very cool video.
This was really cool, Didnt know the set was so big and elaborate, its almost like how the actual saucer section would be laid out in places, like leaving the transporter room goes into the actual curved coridoor
I loved this. Thank you!
All your videos are awesome, don't blame yourself...
Please do one on the Jupiter 2 set from The 1960s Lost In Space.
Fantastic work, as always.
Very good video.
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.
So informative had no idea. Impressed!
Well done!
Love your 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
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.
I really love this video.
Very nice work! Thanks!
Good stuff!
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 good video. I especially love the way you release them during my insomnia hours, where I live. I find them very relaxing. Thanks!
Great stuff!
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.
Oh to create another life size of this set is a dream.
Saratoga Springs has one that you can tour.
Incredibly smart set design. You can do huge amounts of storytelling with just this, and you don't have to build much from episode to episode. Plenty of visual and technical variety, with only the initial build cost really dragging on your budget.
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! :-)
Very nice. In season 2 they added an upper section to the engineering section. This exact set is the one recreated for the Star Trek Continues Web Series, which is now an official set you can tour in New York.
Fascinating!
great job 🖖🏼
Love your videos. Keep them coming🎉
'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.
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.
You could not have told me that Sickbay was the largest part of the original Trek set. I had to see it to believe it. That simply blows my mind.
Very good!
Very cool! Thanks for making this.
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.
Very cool.
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.
Whenever someone makes a model of the set, I always look for LN's bicycle hanging from the rigging.
Awesome!👍🏻
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.
You can tour this set in person according to the actual studio specs from 1967 in Ticonderoga, NY
I did enjoy it, thank you
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.
Great video. I made it a life goal to visit stage 31 at Paramount- Hallowed ground.
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.
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.
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.)
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?
Take me back, brother! Well done!
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 TH-cam algorithm. Have a pleasant day.
I've walked those corridors many times at Neutral Zone Studios in Kingsland, Georgia!
I have only visited once, but it was truly amazing!
Please do the 1701-D sets!
I can honestly say, “I didn’t hate it.”❣️
Great work
You should help out Mr Trek who's making a whole 1/100 and 1/25 scale enterprises
Great job on putting it all together. If there will be another walk through please include the shuttle bay and auxiliary control if you can.
Shuttle bay seen in 'Journey to Babel'was an empty set. What we saw on the screen was a model.
Great work!😎👍🏼👍🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🕊
Dignity fully restored 🙂
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!
A MUCH better quality of cardboard than the Doctor Who sets! LOL
Lovely, thanks!
Really enjoyed this. Excellent model. It’s interesting that both TOS and TNG had such large sets for sickbay. It’s unavoidable, but a lot of set for a fairly boring part of the ship.
If I may offer some advice, I would suggest not referring to your own production concerns or people’s gripes in your videos. Your work is excellent, and there will always be detractors online. Your videos will feel more polished if you don’t apologise for the inevitable reality that your work is going to improve over time, and render your older work less impressive in your own eyes. If you feel you have to improve on a video, just post the better video unapologetically.
Thanks for the video, I really enjoyed seeing it laid out as it was.