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Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 01:04:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 16 01:04:18 1984
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I for one liked the Soviet ship interiors very much -- seemed
homey, cozy, adn realistic compared to Discovery.
What DID bother me about all those pretty colored banks of
color-coded switches (stolen
from organ consoles?):
In *every* scene they are ALL IN THE SAME POSITION -- all off or all on.
Would have been much more real, and added to the visual texture,
if the switches had shown random on/off settings.  Likewise the lites.
I guess the sets were made with all those rocker switches cast
from one solid piece of plastic,
so they ccouldn't be set differently.  mike k
PS: I liked the exposed cables overhead; felt  like a submarine,
and quite in keeping with CLarke's description of a cramped,
functional  Leonov.
PPS:  Did you notice Alexi's pod was named "Grampy"?