The Continuity GuideEagle Guide
by Martin Willey
The Continuity Guide
Text and console art by Marcus Lindroos
The starboard, co-pilot, panels.
The forward panels on the starboard (co-pilot's) side.
The front side panel on the opposite side of the flight control is quite similar. In this scene from Devil's Planet, the button at right activates the retro thrusters. In Testament of Arkadia, the "Active" light is switched on by pressing the same button.
The "Engines On/Off" panel. The panel to the left has a red button here labelled "Ignite", later "Emergency Power".
The topmost row of panels on the starboard side. The one visible at upper left contains the "oxygen support system" controls (The Rules Of Luton) while the adjacent buttons labelled A..D fix the position and course of the lost Eagle 1 in Collision Course.
Closeup of the oxygen life support system display (The Rules of Luton); the button in the middle was added for this particular episode.
The "Engine Ignition" panel has a big section labelled "Engines" with "On" and "Off" buttons. Evidently the control designers have learned some usability lessons since using Cyrillic characters.
The side computer panels were largely unchanged until The Mark Of Archanon, after which the panels were shuffled as required through the series. The starboard "Engine Ignition" panel was moved forward, and upgraded with new "Engines on/off" buttons. The black button under the "Engine ignition" label ignites the secondary engines in Devil's Planet. The panel partly visible at upper right was originally located on the opposite (port) side.
This panel includes, among other things, switches for the "solar battery" backup power system (The A B Chrysalis)
The yellow "2" button at upper left displays magnified remote sensing images on the "big screen" (The Seance Spectre). The square keypad at left is used for plotting the course to other celestial objects (The A B Chrysalis)
Some of the side panels seem to have Cyrillic text. This is the "Emergency Procedure" panel from Voyager's Return. This particular panel contain circuit breakers (Carter inserts a piece of metal to force a short circuit in Collision Course). In some episodes the panel has handles so that it can be opened for maintenance, e.g. in Seed Of Destruction.
Maya's head rests by the "Emergency Procedure" panel, which has lost the label. The yellow button has become "1" (it was the Cyrillic character "Yu", ю). After it is the letter "Be", б. The final "+" has become a small "2".
The "SPNTONQ" panel has shifted backwards, probably because some of the switch labels have rubbed off.
A new "Laser Control" panel was created for Devil's Planet and The Immunity Syndrome.
The "Back Up System" and "Stabilisers" systems panels only appear in The Immunity Syndrome. They appear to be simple covers, with the original panel lights visible beneath.
The second side panel from left is highly unusual and only appears, briefly, in The Testament of Arkadia
Copyright Martin Willey