• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Not with Trek, but I’m a former stagehand and I’ve done amateur stagework. Spent a lotta time building and maintaining sets and props. I’ve been there.

    You’re backstage, you’ve got how everything should look memorized, it’s all set up, and for a moment, while it’s just you and that dry run, you forget yourself. You’re a part of the show.

    Eventually you step back, remember it’s all fake. You notice the little flaws, notice the floor isn’t just right under your feet. You were tired, trying to get something done. A lapse.

    I genuinely believe in the magic of the stage. Not in the sense of a spell, but of the ritual. No matter if it’s on a screen, or in person, if you do it right, we let go. For a moment, we forget our world and step into another.

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    2 years ago

    Wil Wheton talks about times outside of filming on TNG where he would flip the set power switch on in Engineering and just soak it all in.

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      Never too late to get into production, it’s a tough, fast paced environment but it does have its perks

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        If you’re good at what you do, it’s not hard at all. Doesn’t even feel like work. The one thing it takes from you is time. Long long days, time away from family. It’s wonderful but it’s a doozy of a price you pay

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    I bet someone experienced that on The Expanse, their sets were WILDLY complex. The Roci was a permanent fixture that rotated for maneuvers. Pretty cool. Nothing like a Trek set though I’d bet.

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    I wish I could experience that. I wish our sci-fi fairytales of space travel were happening now. Alas, I must simply exist in a life lived better than a king of old, living longer than our ancestors, with food untasted by the billions before us, and all while I fly around in space within Eve Online while watching Star Trek. Life is great, but it’s so easy to want it to be just that much better.

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    2 years ago

    I like the way the OP in the picture wants to start a horror kind of discussion and it immediately turns wholesome and heartwarming.

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    I have a theory; if this individual was in Ops, then a corridor, their brain may have said - hang on, I was just in Ops, then I left …and no one was left in Ops. I’ve left Ops unmanned! This is a dangerous situation for the station!

    …and if that’s going on somewhere in the mind, whilst one is also running late (merging those worries), at the same time as passing through the middle of a set piece - then yeah your brain is going to have a confused questioning of what reality is being occupied, what concern is to be followed given the circumstances at hand.

    …either that or tachyons were involved.

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    This is almost the exact experience I had playing Elite Dangerous in VR one time. I had my HOTAS mounted to the arms of my office chair so the whole setup could swivel. One day I was sitting in orbit over a planet researching a route or something. Ship sounds going in the headphones, comms coming in every now and then, then out of nowhere for just a brief moment I was in space flying that ship. I wish so badly that I could extend that feeling.