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Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out?

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s a good question. I found this on Memory Alpha:

A desperate scramble among the creative staff ensued to trim as much as possible of the budget as possible; the entire prologue was (albeit painfully) scrapped, scenes were trimmed, all planned set construction for new starship interiors was abandoned (though a new Kronos One corridor set did get build ultimately), the planned live-action shoots in Alaska for the Rura Penthe scenes were scrapped as were plans for new studio models and other visual effects elements. Starship sets were to be entirely recycled from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was concurrently in production, but was slated for its summer hiatus, when filming of The Undiscovered Country was planned to start, and only existing studio models were to be used.

I’m guessing this set was simply not built to hold up under feature film-level resolution.

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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.

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- ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The one that bumps me most is the Totally-Not-Ten-Forward Office of the Federation President.
  
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Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Wow I never knew about all the bts drama of this film! Also found this illuminating:

Frank Mancuso, Sr. – who had been intimately involved with Star Trek ever since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – , did not really want to end the Original Crew run on The Final Frontier low note, especially with the 25th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise coming up, and wanted one more film, but found himself seriously hampered by the strictest of budget limitation: under NOconceivable circumstance was a potential new film to exceed the budget of The Final Frontier, not even by one dollar.

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