macropod80
Active Member
I've seen this still turn up several times on Evilbay and always been severely skeptical. Now I've just seen it appear in a UK magazine, which prompted me to try Googling just exactly what it is.
This turned up two more images clearly from the same source, but no answers:
Obviously this scene never appeared in the film so it's usually described as a behind- the -scenes shot from an unused sequence.
What originally struck me were the conspicuous BIC disposable razors stuck around the opening to space (about a decade before they were invented?). Then once you start looking at it, more doubts occur: we did of course see the view from inside the docking bay earlier as the Orion approached, but it looked nothing like this. OK, the station had a docking slot at both ends, so conceivably this might be the other one.. but pre-production artwork shows the Aries and Orion docked in the same hole. And this one has an awful lot of stuff stuck all over the very flat, simple walls. (Aircraft drop-tanks; a strip of electrical terminal blocks!?; a toothpaste tube cap; is that a 2x1 LEGO brick?) Some of it isn't even stuck on very well. It looks quick and cheap - not heavily industrial-designed and painstakingly crafted. I'm sure the guy who made it (who is that guy?) will say indignantly it took ages and he's quite pleased with the result.
And then there's the Aries itself: did they build a second, tiny one with different front windows and panels?
So why can't I see any site on the Net that doesn't represent it as original, and where exactly does it come from?
Or have I just been sitting inside alone too long?
This turned up two more images clearly from the same source, but no answers:
Obviously this scene never appeared in the film so it's usually described as a behind- the -scenes shot from an unused sequence.
What originally struck me were the conspicuous BIC disposable razors stuck around the opening to space (about a decade before they were invented?). Then once you start looking at it, more doubts occur: we did of course see the view from inside the docking bay earlier as the Orion approached, but it looked nothing like this. OK, the station had a docking slot at both ends, so conceivably this might be the other one.. but pre-production artwork shows the Aries and Orion docked in the same hole. And this one has an awful lot of stuff stuck all over the very flat, simple walls. (Aircraft drop-tanks; a strip of electrical terminal blocks!?; a toothpaste tube cap; is that a 2x1 LEGO brick?) Some of it isn't even stuck on very well. It looks quick and cheap - not heavily industrial-designed and painstakingly crafted. I'm sure the guy who made it (who is that guy?) will say indignantly it took ages and he's quite pleased with the result.
And then there's the Aries itself: did they build a second, tiny one with different front windows and panels?
So why can't I see any site on the Net that doesn't represent it as original, and where exactly does it come from?
Or have I just been sitting inside alone too long?
As for the "white bay" versus "red bay"; it was simply to show any transport that only one bay was open, since the back of the Station is still under construction.
