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30th anniversary 4K remaster of the TV Movie coming this year

The more I see of this console room set, the more I'm impressed with Hudolin's abilities. Because it looks like such an impressive set and the reality is that it was probably a lot less expensive than the original 1963 Brachaki set.

You need to build the console (and the girder/buttresses around it) and the occasional Seal of Rassilon to go over the door. Everything else is basically studio scene shop materials and rented props. Stick it on a sound stage and light it moodily so you can't see the walls and it looks magnificent with very little investment.

Compare that to the 1963 set, where you need all the walls and computers and ceiling and, yes, it is in black & white, but still, everything is brightly lit so apart from the 2D roundel "curtain" you've got to build everything and have a level of detail that photographs well.
 
Volpone said:
The more I see of this console room set, the more I'm impressed with Hudolin's abilities. Because it looks like such an impressive set and the reality is that it was probably a lot less expensive than the original 1963 Brachaki set.

You need to build the console (and the girder/buttresses around it) and the occasional Seal of Rassilon to go over the door. Everything else is basically studio scene shop materials and rented props. Stick it on a sound stage and light it moodily so you can't see the walls and it looks magnificent with very little investment.

Compare that to the 1963 set, where you need all the walls and computers and ceiling and, yes, it is in black & white, but still, everything is brightly lit so apart from the 2D roundel "curtain" you've got to build everything and have a level of detail that photographs well.
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The rumour is that the TVM set cost something like $1 million, a significant chunk of the TVM's total production budget of $3 million, which was still quite cheap by the standards of mid-90s TV sci-fi pilot (pretty much the budget of a single Star Trek: Voyager episode).

The Brachaki set in 1963 cost around £5000, which adjusted for inflation would be around £100,000-£125,000 today. So the TVM set still wins, relatively speaking.

I haven't been able to find out how much the current* set cost, but I'm willing to believe it's the most expensive one since 2005, and possibly the only one that really rivals the TVM.

*The one introduced in "The Star Beast" in 2023, for the purposes of anyone reading this thread in a few year's time when doubtless everything will have changed again.
 
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