The Catacombs The Continuity Guide
Moonbase Guide
by Martin Willey

Command Office

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 so-called "Big Doors"), there are two side doors to corridors.

 Black Sun
The staff around a Mezzatessera round table. The object overhanging them from the right is a Lucciola floor lamp.
The Testament Of Arkadia
Koenig's desk sits behind the big doors to Main Mission. Inside the office is a sunken area used for meetings.		 The Testament Of Arkadia
Alongside Koenig's desk is a large Earth globe.		 The Testament Of Arkadia
The sunken floor of the office. Windows look out over Alpha buildings.
Breakaway
Opening the Big Doors. Here they open in the centre. However, when opening them partially, only the left hand panel slides open.		 Breakaway
Note the crystals and gyroscope on Koenig's desk. This and the two white Kartell ash trays are the only decoration. The minimal decoration reflects Koenig's austere personality.		 Breakaway
The view to Main Mission.
End Of Eternity
The Command Office. Note the Communications Post and Selene chair		 Black Sun
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.		 Black Sun
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.
Earthbound
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.		 Black Sun
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)		 Breakaway
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.
Voyager's Return
The conference table with the two doors visible beyond.		 Earthbound
Another view towards the far wall, showing the communications post, with the "C" designation.		 Guardian Of Piri
Another Command Conference; this view shows the communications post and the rarely used wall screen.
Breakaway
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).		 Guardian Of Piri
The normal wall screen display.		 Another Time, Another Place
In Another Time, Another Place the screen is used again.
Alpha Child
Command Desk screen with a screen-saver (looks remarkably like the Microsoft Windows 98 "Mystify" screen saver).		 Alpha Child
Another screen-saver. This is the only desk screen in Main Mission.		 Alpha Child
Command Desk keys, in front of the screen.
Alpha Child
More Command Desk keys.		 Another Time, Another Place
Koenig at work. The keyboard extension he is working on first appears in Another Time, Another Place		 Matter Of Life And Death
The side facing the Command Office is mainly used for paperwork.
Black Sun
A view from the Command Desk to the Earth globe and windows. The long white boxes on the desk are a Kartell ash tray (orange versions appear in Command Center in Year 2).		 Another Time, Another Place
The globe shows some interesting coastlines: Sweden is submerged in an enlarged Baltic Sea, and Cameroon is drowned by a large delta from the Bight of Biafra to Lake Chad.		 Ring Around The Moon
India, Thailand, Indonesia, China and Japan all seem fairly accurate.
Matter Of Life And Death
In Matter Of Life And Death, there seem to metal tubes on the shelves behind the globe.		 Matter Of Life And Death
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: the Diagnostic Unit in Missing Link, the Main Power Unit in Black Sun & Earthbound, the solarium in Force Of Life, the gymnasium in The Testament Of Arkadia.

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