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00:00Hello, everyone, it's me, Adam Cleary, etc. Don't know why I did that.
00:04Back, TreadCulture, we've got some videos that need to be done,
00:07because remember the thing where we do the thing about the ships,
00:11and you're all like, oh, you really like it, and then we kind of did them all well?
00:15There's still some milk in that teat, apparently.
00:18Right, yes, if you're new here, basically, we like to do these really nice breakdowns of the ships,
00:21not just with random Google-able facts, with stuff we've actually found out for ourselves
00:25by doing actual research, and by we, I, of course, mean Paul. Say hello to Paul.
00:29Now, one of my absolute favourites in these series, and indeed one of the most critically well-received,
00:33was the Enterprise D, I think one of the first ones we did.
00:36This is where we discovered Cetacean Ops, this is where my whole dolphin,
00:39they say fetish, obsession came from originally, and it turns out there is yet more space dust
00:45on that book, because we've found 10 more things, and again, by we, I, of me, Paul.
00:50Where's all this information coming from, Adam? Well, I'll tell you by reading it out.
00:54Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda's extensive Star Trek The Next Generation technical manual
00:58both the book and the CD-ROM, as well as Rick's exhaustive deck-by-deck
01:03USS Enterprise NCC-1701D blueprints.
01:07We've got it all from, I need this, but we've got it all from there.
01:10So with that in mind, my name is Adam Cleary.
01:12Yes, I am well out of presenting practice, in case you couldn't tell,
01:15and these are 10 more things about the Enterprise D you need to know.
01:19Number 10, we did see the main shuttle bay.
01:22All right, so I'm going to open this by throwing my old hands up and saying...
01:26I might have got this one wrong.
01:28Number 7, you never actually saw the main shuttle bay.
01:32Yeah, I'm going to open this by holding my hands up and saying we got this one slightly wrong.
01:36I did say in the previous version of this video that you never actually got to see
01:40the Enterprise D's main shuttle bay in all of its glory,
01:44because it was just designed too big and too grand and too interesting
01:46for them to ever realise on screen.
01:48Instead, we got the much smaller, much easier to visualise, much cheaper to produce shuttle bays.
01:53Never got to see the massive, enormous, two-storey, parking lot-style shuttle bay
01:58they had right at the back of the saucer section.
02:01Except we did, sort of.
02:03It was in the episode Cause and Effect.
02:05The USS Bo's minions were repeating one,
02:07where they keep playing the same card game and doing all the same stuff over and over
02:10because of the time loop or something like that.
02:12The ship Fraser, doesn't he, comes out of the thing and he crashes into them and they all die.
02:17Apparently, the idea they had to fix it in the end, the data has,
02:20is to decompress the main shuttle bay.
02:22There you go.
02:23And that is the main shuttle bay.
02:25That one prop shot of the outside of the doors opening,
02:29that is the main shuttle bay.
02:30So technically, you did see it.
02:33Just, not very well.
02:34Number nine, sick bay was actually massive.
02:37Given how much time they spent in sickbay and how much mortal peril the cast and crew were often in,
02:43you don't think it was weird that a ship with over a thousand people on board
02:46had a sickbay with five beds.
02:50Like, intergalactic plagues, diseases, people getting the flu, all sorts.
02:53Five people could ever be staying in that sickbay at once.
02:56That seemed weird.
02:57Well, that's because it wasn't.
03:00It was absolutely massive according to the technical blueprints
03:02and the part we saw was just one part of a much bigger sickbay facility.
03:07Like a hospital, you might call it.
03:08And if we can just bring up the blueprints here,
03:10it was actually this big specifically,
03:12which is, comparative to what we saw on screen,
03:14Genome.
03:15In fact, just going through the dialogue of the show alone,
03:18it tells you that there were three sickbay wards,
03:20surgical suites, medical labs, private hospital rooms,
03:23a rehabilitation centre and a morgue,
03:25which the really scary thing happens that time,
03:28as well as also a Null G ward,
03:30which is like a medical treatment facility,
03:32but with zero gravity,
03:34because for some reason that can help you.
03:38It just saves you putting your feet up
03:39if you're spraying your ankle, I guess,
03:40but other than that.
03:41Number eight, the Arboretum.
03:43All right, so one last thing I'm adding
03:44to the big long list of things
03:45that would have been very cool for them
03:47to have the budget to show us.
03:48Yes, along with the giant computer core
03:49and of course, Cetacean Ops
03:50and I guess the sickbay
03:52is the Arboretum.
03:53Now you did see this,
03:55but we only saw a small, tiny fraction of it.
03:58It was absolutely massive.
04:00In fact, if you just take a look
04:01at the very back of the Enterprise D model,
04:03you see those two large blue square things.
04:07That is actually the Arboretum,
04:09meaning it's at least two decks tall.
04:10It's really, really wide
04:12and so much bigger
04:13than they ever actually used in the set of the show.
04:15I would love to have seen that,
04:18even if they just knocked it up
04:20in a very weird sort of background painting kind of way.
04:22That would have been interesting to me.
04:24A man with no garden.
04:26Wait, is that what an Arboretum is?
04:27Plant, just plants, isn't it?
04:28It is just plants.
04:29I live in a flat, in a building.
04:31I can't go outside.
04:32Number seven, idiots broke into the ship.
04:34No, we're not talking about those Ferengi mercenaries.
04:37Ahook, ahook, ahook, ahook.
04:39See, Paul, that's how good your jokes are.
04:41We're talking about some actual criminals.
04:43According to the Daily Dot,
04:44who were the ones who actually labeled them idiots,
04:45in 1988, some people actually broke into the set of the ship,
04:49had a lot of fun and games there,
04:51and even videoed themselves doing it.
04:53Hence, when the tape was recovered,
04:55they had all the evidence they needed to say.
04:57It was a, hence idiots, basically.
04:59Don't video yourself doing a crime.
05:02It's pretty much,
05:03if I was doing a crime,
05:05pretty much job number one would be
05:06don't actively create evidence of yourself doing it
05:10where possible.
05:11I'm just, I'm gonna read this out
05:12because it's genuinely hilarious.
05:14The videos of the break-in appeared on YouTube in 2007.
05:17They have since, obviously, been taken down.
05:18Called Stage 9 Interlopers.
05:21Two men dressed in homemade,
05:23still not the uniforms.
05:24Where was Sean that night?
05:25I would like an alibi.
05:26Two of the deck,
05:27empty sets of the Enterprise.
05:29They played with the consoles.
05:30They pretended to be my other transporter pad.
05:32They got into the bio beds for some reason.
05:34Then they talked about stealing props
05:36before the video ends.
05:37And in the description, it was like,
05:38oh, we got caught and we got chased out
05:40by Paramount Security.
05:41Again, if I'm doing a crime,
05:44I'm not gonna make videos of me doing the crime.
05:49Of course, the interesting thing about this
05:50is if you cast your mind back to the first video,
05:51we did tell you that the set
05:52was actually covered in cat shit
05:54because of how many cats used to break in there.
05:57So, wonder if that was a consideration.
06:01Wonder if it stood in any of it.
06:02Number six, 10 forward doesn't fit.
06:05Now, as you've probably seen in these videos
06:07or just used your own common sense brain
06:09to work out, a lot of the sets in Star Trek
06:11are redresses.
06:12They're supposed to be adaptable.
06:13They change from episode to episode,
06:15from show to show, from series to series.
06:17They've got to be used for many different things
06:19because they've only got so much space.
06:20But not 10 forward.
06:23That was supposed to tell so many
06:24deeply personal stories
06:26and be such a focal part of that show
06:28that they made a permanent set
06:30that never changed
06:31and looked really, really cool.
06:34And it did look really, really cool.
06:35The only problem with it was
06:36they had a very clear idea
06:37of how they wanted 10 forward to look
06:40and that idea came after
06:41they had designed the Enterprise D.
06:43So, they knew where they wanted it to be.
06:45They knew how they wanted it to fit in with the ship.
06:46They knew what they wanted it to look like on screen.
06:49But the problem is
06:50none of those things actually line up
06:53with the outside design of the Enterprise D.
06:56What you see on screen
06:58does not fit on that model.
07:00In fact, much to the annoyance
07:01of the ship's designer, Andrew Provid,
07:03who literally sat them down and said,
07:04well, you can do what you want
07:05if you're designing a bar cafe thing
07:07but it's got to fit within these parameters.
07:09The producers just went,
07:11nope.
07:11But then so popular was 10 forward
07:13that when they redesigned the model
07:15to be slightly better filmed on television,
07:16they tweaked the design of the saucer section
07:18so that you could fit it in.
07:20But the problem with that was
07:21they had so much footage of the old model
07:22which only varied ever so slightly
07:24that people wouldn't even notice
07:26when watching it on television
07:27because they couldn't predict
07:27that we'd all have HD,
07:29pausable, Blu-ray copies of it
07:31in future to pour over
07:33for our personal entertainment YouTube channels
07:35that they use these interchangeably.
07:37So there's lots of shots in the episodes
07:39with 10 forward not fitting into the saucer section
07:41and then shots where it does fit into the saucer section.
07:44It's what's known as, in French,
07:46l'inconsistency.
07:48Number five, the models were very different.
07:51Okay, so this one is just astoundingly short-sighted.
07:55So when they made the next generation,
07:57they secured the services of ILM,
07:59Industrial Light and Magic.
08:00Yes, the really famous ones
08:01who do all the things for everything
08:02and they got them to produce loads and loads
08:04of shots of the Enterprise-D.
08:06They got them to build it,
08:07they got them to film it,
08:08they got them to make it
08:09so it was very easy to repurpose.
08:10In fact, most of the shots you ever see
08:13of the Enterprise-D
08:14were done in that original window.
08:17And you know exactly the ones
08:18just flying by the screen,
08:19the close-ups when they're doing
08:20the captain's log at the star,
08:21going into orbit, coming out of orbit.
08:23All the ones you saw over and over again,
08:25ILM made them
08:25and they just adapted them
08:26throughout the show.
08:27But the problem with doing a show
08:28that runs on for five, for six,
08:30for seven, for eight,
08:30for however many seasons
08:31is that you need more than that.
08:33You need variety.
08:35You are writing new things
08:36to happen to your characters
08:37and thus new things happen to your ships
08:38and you must be able to visualize that
08:41and not just use the same stock images
08:44over and over again.
08:45So they needed midway through production
08:47to have new footage.
08:49But the problem was
08:50they couldn't get ILM anymore,
08:51either budgetary or whatever.
08:52They had to go to other studios
08:54and other studios
08:54found the ILM model
08:56very difficult to work with
08:57because obviously
08:58they had their own filming practices.
08:59They would prefer
09:00to make their own models.
09:01So by season three,
09:03they decided
09:04that's what they were going to do.
09:05And that new model
09:05debuted in the episode
09:07The Defector,
09:07which is one of the first episodes
09:09where there's just all of a sudden
09:09brand new clips
09:10of the Enterprise.
09:12But the problem was
09:12it wasn't exactly
09:14like the other one.
09:15They'd made it stockier.
09:16They'd made the model
09:16only four foot
09:17so it was much easier to film.
09:19They'd exaggerated
09:19some of the paneling.
09:20They'd done little things
09:21like including Ten Forward
09:23in the actual layout of it.
09:24And it was
09:25to most people
09:27exactly the same.
09:28But to nerds
09:30like me,
09:32like you,
09:33it's quite different.
09:34And of course,
09:35things only got worse
09:35when they went to make
09:36Star Trek Generations
09:37because they got ILM back.
09:38And ILM were like,
09:39ooh, movie budget.
09:40Let's make a brand new
09:41six foot model.
09:42Check.
09:43And a really cool CGI version.
09:45Check.
09:45And all four of these
09:46different versions of the Enterprise
09:48will be ever so slightly different.
09:49With little raised bits here
09:50and little pronounced bits there
09:51and just,
09:52it's all,
09:52it's all,
09:53it's all a mess.
09:54It's all a mess.
09:55I mean,
09:55to most people,
09:55to normal people,
09:56you can't tell.
09:57But again,
09:58we ain't normal.
09:59Number four,
10:00she was almost CGI.
10:02So here's a slightly weird fun fact.
10:05Star Trek The Next Generation
10:06went into pre-production
10:07around the same time
10:08as The Search for Spock
10:09was being made
10:10and there was a lot of talk
10:11that they should just go
10:12and use the refit model
10:13of the original Enterprise
10:15for this series.
10:16I mean,
10:17it seems ridiculous now,
10:18but at the time
10:19you can understand that.
10:20Do we need,
10:21it's still Star Trek.
10:22We want things to be connected.
10:24Why do we need a new ship?
10:25And the plan was
10:26they were going to use
10:26the visual technology
10:27they had at the time
10:28to just do a CGI version of it
10:30so it would be much cheaper,
10:32cheaper,
10:32cheaper,
10:32cheaper to produce
10:33for television.
10:35But they didn't do that.
10:36In the end,
10:36they decided it didn't look
10:37quite as good as they wanted it to.
10:38It didn't look anywhere near
10:39as good as models did.
10:40So if they were going to have
10:41to build a model for television
10:42because they couldn't use that one
10:43that had been in the film,
10:44they might as well
10:45just design it from scratch.
10:46And then just a mere
10:46seven years later
10:48they finally actually
10:48did make a CGI version
10:50of the Enterprise D
10:51for Star Trek Generations
10:52so it's just
10:53it's a funny old game
10:54and it's funny how life works.
10:56Number three,
10:56she was blue.
10:58Right,
10:58so lighting is
10:59I don't look like this.
11:01The version you're seeing me on,
11:02I don't really look like this.
11:03My skin tone is very different.
11:05This is just,
11:06it's the lighting,
11:07okay?
11:07I'm in a studio,
11:08I'm being lit from the front,
11:10the back is being lit as well.
11:11This is not how you would see me
11:13on the street.
11:14And the same is true
11:14of models they use
11:16to recreate starships
11:17in television shows.
11:18They are a produce,
11:20a produce?
11:21The result of lighting.
11:23Which is why
11:23if I asked you to tell me
11:24what colour the Enterprise D was,
11:26indeed what colour
11:26are most of the ships
11:27in Starfleet,
11:28you'd probably say
11:29it's like a grey silver,
11:30like a very neutral
11:31grey or silver,
11:32wouldn't you?
11:33You'd be wrong.
11:34They are actually
11:34duck egg blue.
11:36Genuinely.
11:37And the reason for this,
11:38and this is going to
11:38blow your mind slightly
11:39if you're not like 50 or 60,
11:41is because the way
11:42the original Enterprise
11:43used to come across
11:45on old televisions
11:46when it was originally broadcast
11:47was duck egg blue.
11:50Even though that
11:51was designed to be
11:52silver slash grey,
11:53it actually came across
11:54as slightly blue
11:55on television.
11:56But they had the same thing
11:57when they were doing
11:57the set for Strange New Worlds,
11:58didn't they?
11:58They've got everything orange,
12:00even though we sort of
12:01think of it as red
12:01because those sets
12:02were actually orange,
12:03it just came off
12:04as red on television.
12:06So the old Enterprise
12:06on the 60s TV show
12:08used to look blue,
12:09so they designed
12:10the Enterprise D
12:11to look blue.
12:12And yet of course,
12:13irony upon irony upon irony,
12:14even though it was
12:15designed blue
12:16to look like the colour
12:17that the Enterprise
12:17was not in the 1960s,
12:20when they started
12:20putting that under
12:21studio lighting,
12:22it looked silver grey.
12:24The colour the Enterprise
12:25actually was
12:25under studio lighting.
12:27Which is mad.
12:28And if you still
12:29don't believe me,
12:29go watch the end
12:30of Star Trek Generations
12:31when the saucer section
12:32crashes into the planet
12:34and is lit
12:34for the first time
12:35not by space lights
12:37or anything like that,
12:38but by a natural,
12:39neutral sun.
12:41It is blue.
12:42It is immistakably blue.
12:44Immistakably a word?
12:46Unmistakably blue.
12:47It is blue.
12:48Number two,
12:49they destroyed the bridge
12:50for real.
12:51Alright, so people
12:51kind of noticed
12:52that they upgraded
12:52the bridge for generations.
12:53They added extra consoles
12:54on the side,
12:55they raised the seating
12:56up in the middle.
12:56The idea was you were
12:57supposed to not notice
12:58it had changed
12:59and because you were
12:59seeing it on a big screen
13:00you were thinking,
13:01oh wow,
13:01is that what that
13:02really looked like?
13:03All this time,
13:04but of course,
13:04people aren't stupid
13:05and instead they sat there
13:06and went,
13:07oh,
13:07they've changed it.
13:08And while it was
13:09a slightly controversial change
13:10because yes,
13:11you're not going to believe it,
13:11people saw something
13:12had changed
13:12on something they liked
13:13and they got really annoyed
13:14about it
13:15and started doing stuff
13:16but just that the internet
13:16wasn't as terrible
13:18as it is now
13:18so it kind of
13:19gets forgotten about.
13:20The plan, of course,
13:21was to destroy that bridge
13:22because they were going
13:23to destroy the ship
13:23and they actually did need
13:24to completely clear it out
13:25because the space
13:26that was being used
13:27for the Enterprise D bridge
13:28needed to be cleared out
13:29to be the set
13:29for Voyager's bridge
13:31on the Paramount lot.
13:32So rather than just
13:32making effects appear
13:34to destroy the place,
13:35they decided,
13:36well,
13:37let's actually trash it.
13:39So the fires,
13:39explosions,
13:40everything burning,
13:41everything collapsing
13:42on top of itself,
13:43none of that
13:43is practical work
13:44or effects
13:45or design to be put away.
13:46They just started
13:46knocking stuff over
13:48and setting fire to it
13:49and kicking it around
13:50and that's why
13:51it looks so good.
13:52Some of it was saved though
13:53in case I've upset you
13:53by saying that.
13:54It's in the Hollywood
13:55Entertainment Thingy Museum.
13:56It's been there
13:57since like 2007.
13:58If you want to go see it
13:59and be like,
13:59oh, thank God,
14:00you're safe,
14:01horseshoe console,
14:02then it's there.
14:03Number one,
14:03Feature Enterprise
14:04had a naughty bumper sticker.
14:07So really quick one
14:08to end on this.
14:09Quite fun.
14:09You all saw all good things.
14:10One of my all-time favorite
14:11Star Trek Next Generation episodes.
14:12One of my all-time favorite
14:13Star Trek episodes.
14:15Full stop,
14:15in fact,
14:16the Enterprise refit.
14:18The Galaxy X class,
14:20I think it's called.
14:21You know,
14:21it's got the third
14:22incredibly phallic
14:23warp nacelle on the back.
14:24It's got loads of
14:25shooty phases.
14:26It's got old man Riker
14:27behind the wheel.
14:28You remember it.
14:29It peers briefly,
14:31blows up some Klingons
14:32and then goes to warp 13
14:33and we just never
14:33addressed that.
14:34Again,
14:35you remember it, right?
14:36It had a funny bumper sticker.
14:37Now this information
14:38comes exclusive to you
14:39thanks to our good pal
14:40Doug Drexler
14:40who you can either see
14:41in a forthcoming video
14:42that we've just done
14:43or that's already gone out.
14:44I don't know when
14:45you're going to see this one
14:46but we've done some fun stuff
14:47with him is my point.
14:48He told us
14:49there was a bumper sticker
14:50on the physical model
14:51of that.
14:52They took one of the old
14:53models of the Enterprise D
14:54and they added stuff to it
14:55because it was the last episode
14:55you can get away
14:56with stuff like that.
14:57They put a bumper sticker
14:58on it as well.
14:58Any guesses?
14:59Anyone?
14:59Anyone?
15:00What did the bumper stickers say?
15:01Anyone?
15:02Anyone?
15:02I heart Uranus.
15:03Wait, no,
15:04it's even funnier.
15:05We heart Uranus.
15:07Ho, ho, ho.
15:08Actually called this
15:08the master display system
15:09on that also contained
15:10loads of funny Easter eggs.
15:11They had a biplane,
15:12a mouse and a rubber ducky
15:14all just based
15:15in the ship's schematics
15:15because it was the last episode.
15:16It was the last day of school
15:17for everyone who worked
15:18on the next generation
15:19so they started
15:20started having some fun.
15:22Hey, fun story
15:22on my last day of school
15:23I broke in overnight
15:25and I painted
15:26a enormous
15:2740 foot
15:28pink penis
15:29on the school field.
15:31Have I ever told anybody
15:31about that before?
15:32If you're watching this
15:33Mr. O'Dwyer
15:34or Miss Cluwen
15:35that was me.
15:36Sorry.
15:37Anyway, there you go
15:3810 more things
15:38you did not know
15:39about the Enterprise D
15:40which now you do
15:40which brings that to
15:4120 things you now know
15:42about the Enterprise D
15:43along with the 10 things
15:44you know about like
15:45Keep Space Nine
15:46about Voyager
15:47or about the
15:48Romulan Warbird
15:49about the Defiant
15:50lots of information
15:51going on in there
15:52hope you don't soon
15:52forget where you live
15:53that would be terrible
15:54so let us know
15:54what you made of it all
15:55in the comments below
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15:57I'm sorry
15:58I don't present much anymore
15:59this is all over the place
16:00and terrible
16:00well it's just
16:01not really my job
16:02at the minute
16:03so standards will slip
16:04unfortunately
16:05but if you did like
16:06what you see
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16:07C-L-E-R-Y
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16:10but in the meantime
16:10thank you all so much
16:12for watching
16:12thanks enormously to Paul
16:14for pulling all this
16:15information together
16:15and to Chris
16:16probably for the edit
16:17but I
16:18Adam
16:18just me
16:19we'll see you soon
16:20goodbye
16:21bye
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