Koenig's desk sits behind the big doors to Main Mission. Inside the office is a sunken area used for meetings.
Situated behind Main Mission, this room is both Koenig's personal office and a meetings room used for informal and formal conferences with senior command staff. Besides the access to Main Mission (through the "Big Doors", as they are called in the script), there are two side doors to corridors.
The Big Doors between the Command Office and Main Mission. When opening them partially, only the left hand panel slides open. When they open fully they split in the centre.
The staff around a Mezzatessera round table. The object overhanging them from the right is a Lucciola floor lamp.
The Command Office in the eerie light of the black sun. Furnishings include an Earth globe, two Throwaway sofas, the Toga chairs, Giano Vano Ruote telephone tables and a Mezzatessera round table.
The Command Office. Note the Communications Post and Selene chair
There is a collection of rocks on the glass shelves between the side doors, and various containers in the wall shelves. The chair, often seen to the side of Command Office, is a Vicario design, wider than the standard Gaudi seats.
A view of the Command Desk in front of the Main Mission doors. A Toga chair is in the foreground. When the Big Doors are open, the Command Desk may be moved forward, sometimes well into Main Mission (see early scenes in The Last Sunset)
A close up of the windows. Moonbase buildings are seen below, with the lunar hills beyond. Characters frequently peered out into the darkness of space.
The alternative configuration of the room featured a large conference table. It must be broken into parts to be removed and replaced by the Mezzatessera table. The chairs are Selene.
Another Command Conference; this view shows the communications post and the rarely used wall screen.
This wall screen almost always shows a test card design, but is used occasionally as here in Breakaway (other episodes include in Another Time, Another Place).
Note the crystals and gyroscope on Koenig's desk. This and the two white Kartell ash trays are the only decoration. Koenig sits on a Domani chair.
In Another Time, Another Place the screen is used again.
Command Desk screen with a screen-saver (looks remarkably like the Microsoft Windows 98 "Mystify" screen saver).
Koenig at work. The keyboard extension he is working on first appears in Another Time, Another Place
A view from the Command Desk to the Earth globe and windows. The long white boxes on the desk are a Pio Manzu Kartell ash tray (orange versions appear in Command Center in Year 2).
The globe shows some interesting coastlines: Sweden is submerged in an enlarged Baltic Sea, but Finland and the Gulf of Finland is correct. In Africa, Cameroon is drowned by a large delta from the Bight of Biafra to Lake Chad. Small islands such as the Balearics, Crete, Cyprus and Socotra (off the horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea) are present and correct.
The Americas and Caribbean islands seem accurate. The Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake in the North West Territories of Canada are visible. There are two lakes in the south west US, one of which must be the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the other may be Utah Lake (a little larger and more distant from the Great Salt Lake than in reality). Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, South America, is also clearly shown. Oddly the largest American lakes, the Great Lakes on the Canada United States border, are missing.
North Vietnam is missing, as well as the southern peninsula of Thailand that connects to Malaysia. The southern hemisphere, including Australia, South America and South Africa, is permanently hidden by the globe's mounting.
Matter Of Life And Death. The southern hemisphere, including most of Australia, south central South America and southern Africa, is permanently hidden by the globe's mounting. In this view Antarctica can just be discerned, painted in white. Thanks Craig Rohloff
Knocked onto its side, the globe reveals that the north polar icecap is painted on in white. Thanks Craig Rohloff
This publicity shot also shows the icecap. You can see the Finland and Norway around a large Baltic Sea that has drowned Sweden. The thin archipelago of Novaya Zemlya can be seen, and Svalbard, the Norwegian island shown here at the edge of the ice cap.
During the interrogation scene in Matter Of Life And Death, the Command Office is redressed slightly, with red lighting. The script does specify the Command Office location, but it's possible the redress was meant to suggest another location. The Earth globe and Command Desk are both gone, as are the tubes on the shelves.
The Command Office was revamped into several sets:
Copyright Martin Willey. Thanks to Patrick Zimmerman.