Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is one of my favorite Trek films. It’s a great finale for the original crew and it’s both well done and also not at the same time (I could do a whole thread on the numerous continuity errors within the film, but I digress). One thing I’ve always wondered is why the galley in the Enterprise is so beat up in the scene where the senior crew debates the use of a phaser as part of the crime against the Klingon Chancellor.

So…. Why is the galley so beat up?

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    (from wikipedia)

    Director Nicholas Meyer wanted the Enterprise to feel grittier and more realistic for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), but realizing that vision was limited by the need to use existing sets. Cinematographer Hiro Narita changed the clean, bright look of the bridge from The Final Frontier by lighting it differently in The Undiscovered Country.

    My interpretation has always been that the enterprise is getting pretty run down by that point and the wear is starting to show - we see this wear happen to plenty of other Federation stations (DS9, Starbase 80, etc.) so it makes sense that in the lore such a venerable ship would be starting to show it’s age.

    • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      TIL the Enterprise A only served 7 years. But yeah, that’s plenty of time for cosmetic wear to build up in a well-used galley

      Edit: The Enterprise A was commissioned in Voyage Home. According to Memory Alpha Undiscovered Country takes place 7 years later.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.