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This place time was different than Star Trek the

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Next Generation for

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several reasons.

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It's a darker grittier.

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Look at

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space

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stories.

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It's a

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Different for me because when I

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did Star Trek the Next Generation, I inherited a

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lot of stuff

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and inherited

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stages and sets

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from Star Trek the motion picture.

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When I did Deep Space Nine, I had three

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empty stages in other words just a blank sheet

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of paper

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for quite a while.

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We were going in the wrong direction.

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They originally thought they wanted a

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space station that was kind of a Tower of

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Babel

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built over

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several thousand years by four or five different cultures.

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None of the technology of the cultures necessarily

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interfacing with the other technology.

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The language is not necessarily being understood

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by the previous

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builders.

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Hmm

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when we did something like that and

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Rick sternbach and Michael could have

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and I were

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we did computer sketches and we did models and

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nobody liked any of them including

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the art Department.

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We just really didn't like them

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and finally Rick said, you know,

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what I really want

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is the most bizarre.

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Alien looking

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station.

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You can come up with

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but I want it to be so unique that

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if you're in the kitchen

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and you hear the music

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and you look

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through the door

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across the dining room into the living room

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and there on the television screen

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that size

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is Deep Space Nine, you know immediately what it

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is.

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Well, those are better marching orders than the Tower

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of Babel

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and

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We started working on an idea of

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well, how do we keep this thing in space?

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We made has to be some kind of gyroscope.

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So we started kind of with a

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shape of a gyroscope and

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then we decided that was

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too plain and

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we talked about

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maybe big

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big spheres running around.

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This is sternbach.

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We know kudrin a

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big spheres running around inside a circular thing that

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would help to keep it

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leveled keep it

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on some kind of a

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gravitational plane.

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And then we decided Well, we don't really need

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to explain all of that.

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But

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somehow the idea of a the nucleus of an

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atom

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was in there too,

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and I've been very fond of

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120 degree divisions of an arc.

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It's a Mercedes emblem.

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And basically if you look at the

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station that we created

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the structure of it is

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in sets of three.

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So

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we just arbitrarily said cardassian

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like things in sets of three.

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So we have three concentric Rings.

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We have three arms that hold the three concentric

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rings together.

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And that's basically the station

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there's a

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control

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Command Module and there's a power module under that

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in the center.

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And then we have these three

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docking arms and they don't complete the circle.

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They're broken

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so that became the places where we could

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dock ships

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and it became places where we could put weapons.

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It kind of all fell into place.

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I had

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some really good illustrators working for me

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and

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we decided that like the exoskeleton of the costumes

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for the cardassian

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that

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they look like.

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They have their bones very near the surface or

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even on the outside.

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So we

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tried to make a station that

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that

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was structurally honest it what you see is how

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its put together

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and

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it has a lot of

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mechanical technology, but it has

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sweet.

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Lines and

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and

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again Art Deco kind of

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planes that follow one another

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each getting either larger or smaller as the as

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your eye passes over them.

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The Promenade was the was the largest standing set

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and it

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had an 80 foot radius,

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which is pretty good size for the size stage.

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It was put on

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the Promenade of course is

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is our western town.

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You know, you have the

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security

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Office which is really the Sheriff's Office you have

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the infirmary, which is really the doctor's office.

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You have the saloon courts bar.

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You have a lot of people Milling about in

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the street.

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We also worked on modularity so that for practical

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reasons, we would make a number of molds and

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use those molds to create fiber glass walls that

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we put together in different combinations as you would

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do if you

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Building a

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real station.

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You wouldn't want to

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you'd want things to be as

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modular as possible.

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Especially if you were

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hauling materials from the planet and putting them together

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in outer space.

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So we

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think we did a

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pretty good job of making that station that

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it's quite proud of it and

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Brazil

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Fabrication in Glendale

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built the 6-foot model, which is what you

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see on the opening of the show,

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and

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it's brilliant.

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It's probably the best miniature I've ever seen.

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It should be in the Smithsonian.