Cargo
Bay
Thoughts on the new Enterprise cargo decks were already visualized by Star Trek veteran, Mike Minor,
before I had a chance to address it. He was working on the Paramount lot while I was at the
Robert Abel (Special Effects) facility designing various pieces of space hardware.
The thinking, then at Paramount under production designer Harold Michelson, was that the cargo bay would
be a space 30 feet high (plus) that had two (presumably) walls with twelve holes containing cargo pods (?).
These 'Matte Renderings', by Mike Minor, showed us that any additional cargo pods were simply stacked
or lined up on the deck like some 20th century warehouse leaving a huge open and unused space above (?).
The walkways along the sides were also rather old fashoned looking.
As I began my talks about this, with newly appointed Effects Supervisor, Douglas Trumbull,
things went terribly wrong when a consulting illustrator produced this verry scarry version
featuring a space that was now over 50 feet high with a HUGE WINDOW ( ? )
on one side of a straight-sided hull, uuuuuugh.
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Thoughts on the new Enterprise cargo decks were already visualized by Star Trek veteran, Mike Minor,
before I had a chance to address it. He was working on the Paramount lot while I was at the
Robert Abel (Special Effects) facility designing various pieces of space hardware.
The thinking, then at Paramount under production designer Harold Michelson, was that the cargo bay would
be a space 30 feet high (plus) that had two (presumably) walls with twelve holes containing cargo pods (?).
These 'Matte Renderings', by Mike Minor, showed us that any additional cargo pods were simply stacked
or lined up on the deck like some 20th century warehouse leaving a huge open and unused space above (?).
The walkways along the sides were also rather old fashoned looking.
As I began my talks about this, with newly appointed Effects Supervisor, Douglas Trumbull,
things went terribly wrong when a consulting illustrator produced this verry scarry version
featuring a space that was now over 50 feet high with a HUGE WINDOW ( ? )
on one side of a straight-sided hull, uuuuuugh.
1 2 3