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