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Fire up the inertial dampeners, retract all moorings and clear space dock. It's time to boldy go where no one has gone before!

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I'll start things off with this effects shot from Star Trek IV.

And for the newest show...

That is from Season 2, but it doesn't say which episode and I am bad at this stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I had a bunch of pictures of the Macs powering all the displays on the set of the NX-01 on a hard drive somewhere. I should go see if I can find them and post them.

These, uh, racks of Macs....

[–] directive0 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Old Macs and Trek, two of my favourite things.

Here is Denise Okuda in front of her Quadra 700. She used it to make all the wonderful LCARS and other alien UI panels on DS9. This was her taking a break while working on the DS9 pilot in 1993.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That is amazing.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 10 months ago

Here's a couple of Enterprise behind-the-scenes photos.

Captain meets captain. (Scott Bakula visiting the Nemesis set.)

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please do. That sounds amazing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I found the good old racks of Macs. Edited first post.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 10 months ago

Love it! Thanks!

[–] EdibleFriend 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They needed something that was just going to put a fake computer display on the screen and they went with Mac's? That's not... Exactly a cost-efficient way of handling that. Then again maybe they had some kind of weird corporate thing going on?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The G4 cube is fanless, so no noise, that could absolutely be part of it

[–] EdibleFriend 3 points 10 months ago

Ok now that makes sense

[–] directive0 5 points 10 months ago

my guess would be it was the smallest/fastest mac they could get and the scenic design team used macs almost exclusively and probably had no interest taking a chance on a different platform. Just a hunch tho.