What, did they have to rent set space or something? I would’ve figured the major cost would be in the construction, so it would be a sunk cost once they used it the first time.
If I remember right the battle bridge was a re-dressed bridge set from the TOS run of films, so it was doing double-duty, and needed to be re-dressed each time.
Out of universe, they wanted to show the crazy stuff the ship was capable of…until they started running low on budget
Maintaining two bridge sets = budget buster.
What, did they have to rent set space or something? I would’ve figured the major cost would be in the construction, so it would be a sunk cost once they used it the first time.
If I remember right the battle bridge was a re-dressed bridge set from the TOS run of films, so it was doing double-duty, and needed to be re-dressed each time.
TBF it triple-dutied as other ship bridges also, the old Stargaze iirc, the Brittain with the old dead people on it…
Star Trek is like real life: when the budget is good enough, you get a yacht.