The Catacombs The Continuity Guide
Moonbase Guide
by Martin Willey

Command Office


Command Desk

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Koenig's desk stands by the Big Doors to Main Mission, overlooking the set.
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Koenig's desk will be modified to appear in Command Center

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The desk here is shifted towards the windows, not central.

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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); they contain plastic cards which appear to be memory cards.

Breakaway

Koenig has a gyroscope on his desk.

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Sometimes there are two crystal balls by the gyroscope. This and the two white Kartell ash trays are the only decoration. Koenig sits on a Domani chair.

Main Mission side

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The side facing Main Mission has lights and a metal grill similar to the standard desks, with an additional keyboard on the left side. There are usually coloured plastic cards in the slots, presumably memory cards.

Breakaway

Koenig opens the doors to Main Mission with this black button.

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Koenig presses this white button to close the doors to Main Mission. The desk is sometimes only in the office side, and sometimes in the middle of the doors. In this shot for Matter Of Life and Death, the previous shot showed the door would close half way through the desk.

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Koenig presses the "Red Alert" button in Matter Of Life and Death, which is the top right black button on the big keypad.

Space Warp

The side sometimes appears in Command Center; here in Space Warp

Command Office side

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The side facing the Command Office is mainly used for paperwork. On either side of the writing area are two open slots for storing paperwork.

Right side and screen

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During Breakaway, there is usually no small screen on the right of Koenig's desk.

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For some scenes, the small screen Breakaway suddenly appears.

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Command Desk screen with a screen-saver (looks remarkably like the Microsoft Windows 98 "Mystify" screen saver). This is the only desk screen in Main Mission (Kano's desk has a non-functional screen).

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The keyboard extension first appears in Another Time, Another Place

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Close up of the keyboard in front of the screen. In this shot, the bottom left key of the white keypad is missing (it was later repaired).


Copyright Martin Willey. Thanks to Patrick Zimmerman.