In Star Trek: The Original Series, the recreation room was a redress of the briefing room set, built on Stage 9 at Desilu 's main Gower Street studio lot. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 110).
Designing The Motion Picture's Recreation Deck The recreation deck of Star Trek: The Motion Picture grew out of Director Robert Wise's desire to show the scale of the new Enterprise. The room with too many names was first used with holograms in The Animated Series, but crew lounges and recreation facilities had been standard issue since at least the early. The Rec Room in The Naked Time was very minimalistic.
There was nothing really to distinguish it from a small conference room. I got the impression that three crewman with Sulu in that scene just called it Rec Room 3 as a bit of an in. A comparison of the Starship Enterprise Recreation Room from Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One ("Charlie X") and Star Trek Continues - Season One ("Pilgrim of Eternity").
As Star Trek. The first appearance of a holodeck-type technology in Star Trek came in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Practical Joker", where it was called the "recreation room". [2] In the episode's story, Dr.
McCoy, Sulu and Uhura are trapped inside it by the ship's computer. The chronologically first in-universe appearance of a holodeck was in Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Unexpected. Rec Rooms are not to be confused with "Officers' Lounges" as seen in Space Seed, Journey to Babel, Is There in Truth No Beauty? and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
At least one type of Recreation Room was capable of generating holographic simulations of various environments. The Enterprise was outfitted with such a room in "Area 39" of the ship. Today we can commemorate the 40th anniversary of the filming on the large rec room set, especially built for the third season of Star Trek.:techman.
In before "holodecks shouldn't exist yet". They called it a "recreation room" but the original Enterprise had a deck capable of using holograms to recreate a beach, a forest, and a hedge maze. The set for the recreation deck was built on Paramount Stage 8 and cost US$ 252,000.
(The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp. 93, 95) The original room was designed by Phase II Technical Consultant Matt Jefferies, a Star Trek: The Original Series veteran, and one element of his design made it into the movie.