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Re-Used Props - Computers
& Displays
by Jörg
Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider
Viewscreens - Consoles - Hand-Held Computers
Many props of Star Trek were later modified or even recycled without changes to represent equipment for a different purpose or of another civilization. Here are quite a few examples of computers and displays. Please note that every statement made here should be taken with a grain of salt. There is no need to seek for explanations. Certainly we are not supposed to watch closely enough to notice that computers look all the same everywhere in the galaxy.
Engineering display In TNG: "Booby Trap" a device behind Leah and Geordi displays the warp core status. It has a distinctive rounded edge. In "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" a crewmember flees an explosion aboard the Enterprise-A. Note the display in the middle; it seems that the design for the Enterprise-D's core has traveled backwards in time!
 Display in TNG: "Booby Trap" (screen capture by Nathan Koga) |
 Display in "Star Trek VI" (screen capture by Nathan Koga) |
Starfleet & alien viewscreen The viewscreen of the Enterprise-D's battle bridge (which was no permanent set) was also used for the Atlec ship in TNG: "The Outrageous Okona", as well as for Baran's pirate ship in TNG: "Gambit", each time with a few modifications. The battle bridge itself was rebuilt for TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds". The viewscreen remained essentially the same though.
 Battle bridge (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Atlec screen (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Battle bridge (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Baran's screen (TNG: "Gambit") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Risan & Zalkonian screen The computer screen seen on Risa in TNG: "Captain's Holiday" later appears on the Zalkonian ship in TNG: "Transfigurations", albeit in a little prominent place somewhere in the background.
 Risan interface (TNG: "Captain's Holiday") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Zalkonian interface (TNG: "Transfigurations") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Ktarian & Romulan interior The command chair as well as the main screen of the Ktarian ship from TNG: "The Game" show up on the Romulan Warbird in TNG: "Face of the Enemy". What does it tell us about the state of the empire that the Romulans need to steal their furniture from minor races? ;-)
 Ktarian chair (TNG: "The Game") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Romulan chair (TNG: "Face of the Enemy") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Ktarian screen (TNG: "The Game") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Romulan screen (TNG: "Face of the Enemy") (screen capture by Jörg) |
The viewscreen also shows up on the Mari homeworld in VOY: "Random Thoughts".
Mari viewscreen (VOY: "Random Thoughts")
(screen capture by Jörg)
Defiant viewscreen The viewscreen of the Xindi-Reptilian ship commanded by Dolim (as seen from the inside in ENT: "Countdown") is the one of the Defiant!
 Defiant screen (DS9: "What You Leave Behind") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Xindi-Reptilian viewscreen (ENT: "Countdown") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Desktop computer The Cardassian computer that Gul Madred is using in TNG: "Chain of Command" later appears on Baran's ship in TNG: "Gambit". The prop was repainted for its second appearance (curiously, in the new brown color it looks even more Cardassian). But considering that Baran is a pirate it would be easy to explain how he got his hands on a Cardassian computer.
 Madred's computer (TNG: "Chain of Command") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Baran's computer (TNG: "Gambit, part 2") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Trill & Sloan's monitor In DS9: "Rejoined" Trill scientists take one of their monitors (among other equipment) aboard the Defiant for their wormhole experiment. The same monitor can be seen in "Sloan's mind" in DS9: "Extreme Measures". The other monitor in the latter scene is a variant of the TNG monitor.
 Trill monitor (DS9: "Rejoined") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Sloan's "monitor" (DS9: "Extreme Measures") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Starfleet & Dinaali terminal A typical Starfleet desktop console, as seen in DS9: "Whispers", was slightly redressed to stand in as a Dinaali device in VOY: "Critical Care".
 Starfleet console (DS9: "Whispers") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Dinaali console (VOY: "Critical Care") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Console with levers A console with untypical (for Trek) mechanical levers can be seen on a Suliban ship in ENT: "Shockwave", but also on a Xindi-Insectoid vessel in ENT: "Azati Prime".
 Suliban controls (ENT: "Shockwave") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Xindi-Insectoid controls (ENT: "Azati Prime") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Kazon & Mari console The Kazon computer console from VOY: "Investigations" can be seen again in VOY: "Random Thoughts".
 Kazon console (VOY: "Investigations") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Mari console (VOY: "Random Thoughts") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Control console The same basic console design can be seen on a Ferengi shuttle, a Romulan scout ship and a Tamarian warship. The painting and the controls are different each time though.
 Ferengi console (TNG: "The Price") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Romulan console (TNG: "The Defector") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Tamarian console (TNG: "Darmok")
(screen capture by Jörg)
Console with pyramid This distinctive console can be seen in TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I", as well as in "Descent, Part II".
 Theta wave generator (TNG: "Chain of Command") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Lore's console (TNG: "Descent") (screen capture by Jörg) |
TOS computer An obvious one: Gary Seven's computer in TOS: "Assignment Earth" and the Atavachron terminal operated by Mr. Atoz in TOS: "All Our Yesterdays" are identical.
 Gary Seven's Beta 5 (TOS: "Assignment: Earth") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Atavachron terminal (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Kressari PADD & more In DS9: "The Circle" the Kressari captain demands a thumb print from his Cardassian trade partner. His PADD can be seen along with Kressari lettering. The same equipment without any visible changes is used in DS9: "The Die is Cast". Here the Romulan Lovok, actually a Changeling in disguise, hands out a PADD to Garak and Odo that obviously carries the access code to the shuttlebay. Have the Romulans been stealing even more things? ;-)
 Kressari freight PADD (DS9: "The Circle") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Romulan door opener (DS9: "The Die is Cast") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Also, the prop shows up in VOY: "Critical Care", here as a PADD again.
Dinaali PADD (VOY: "Critical Care")
(screen capture by Jörg)
Romulan & Mari PADD The Romulan PADD from Neral's office in both parts of TNG: "Unification" can be seen on the Mari homeworld in VOY: "Random Thoughts" as well. The display was most likely modified for its new role though.
 Romulan PADD (TNG: "Unification, part I") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Mari PADD (VOY: "Random Thoughts") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Trill & Dinaali PADD We can see the same prop as a Trill PADD in DS9: "Equilibrium" and, now painted differently, as a Dinaali device in VOY: "Critical Care". It looks like a Children's game console to us.
 Trill PADD (DS9: "Equilibrium") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Dinaali PADD (VOY: "Critical Care") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Vori & Nezu PADD The PADDs of these two civilizations look identical.
 Vori PADD (VOY: "Nemesis") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Nezu PADD (VOY: "Rise") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Aldean communicator & more A number of characteristic hexagonal communicators was built for the Aldeans in TNG: "When the Bough Breaks". The devices were used to communicate and to signal when they wished to be beamed back. The button to send the signal was located in one of the corners. Many years later we could see a modification of this prop on Star Trek Voyager, used by the authorities of an alien planet to measure the polaric radiation (VOY: "Time and Again"). The color and the central area of the device had been modified, but the button was still there.
 Aldean communicator (TNG: "When the Bough...") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Polaron meter (VOY: "Time and Again") (screen capture by Jörg) |
The prop could be seen one last time in VOY: "Prototype". Here the Automated Unit disables B'Elanna with an energy blast from the device, and then signals the Pralor vessel to beam them over. The color was modified again (it is now glowing red from the inside), and the button was removed. The hole where the button was mounted is still visible if we look closely.
Pralor device (VOY: "Prototype")
(screen capture by Jörg)
Fingerprint scanner & PADD Another interesting prop can be seen for the first time in TNG: "The Most Toys". In this episode it serves as a fingerprint scanner. When Data is confirming the deal with Fajo with his fingerprint, he is disabled by an energy surge from the device. A further appearance is in TNG: "The Masterpiece Society" where it becomes a scanner. The denizens of the Moab colony use it to scan for fractures in the shell of their artificially built environment. For this purpose an illuminated window was added in the place of the former fingerprint sensor.
 Fingerprint scanner (TNG: "The Most Toys") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Scanner (TNG: "The Masterpiece Society") (screen capture by Jörg) |
In two later episodes the unmodified prop serves as a display device, namely in TNG: "Frame of Mind" as a Tilonian PADD and in TNG: "Gambit" as Galen/Picard's PADD. Finally, the prop can be seen as an Enaran PADD in VOY: "Remember".
 Tilonian PADD (TNG: "Frame of Mind") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Galen's PADD (TNG: "Gambit, part 2") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Enaran PADD (VOY: "Remember") (screen capture by Jörg) |
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Devore & Impostor scanner The scanner used by the Devore to examine Voyager in VOY: "Counterpoint" later appears as a "sacred" instrument in the hand of the impostor Mobar in VOY: "Live Fast and Prosper".
 Devore scanner (VOY: "Counterpoint") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Mobar's scanner (VOY: "Live Fast and Prsper") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Penk's scanner & Lokirrim scanner Penk's scanner in VOY: "Tsunkatse" is the same as the Lokirrim device that Seven is holding in VOY: "Body and Soul".
 Penk's scanner (VOY: "Tsunkatse") (screen capture by Jörg) |
 Lokirrim scanner (VOY: "Body and Soul") (screen capture by Jörg) |
Credits
The re-used Enterprise-D engineering display was found by Nathan Koga, the Defiant viewscreen by Michael Minnick. Alex Müller spotted the Dinaali console, Simon Allen the lever console, Ron Ferrara the pyramid console and Felix Ernie the TOS computer re-use.
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