Spoilers Yorktown Base

[Dilandu]

Before jumping into the tech forum, how big is the Yorktown anyway? 16 miles sounds very conservative - It sure blew my socks off!

About 82448 cubic kilometers in volume. The total surface of the sphere is about 9160 square kilometers. I.e. if the internal surface would be habitable (Bernal Sphere-type space colony), the living surface would be larger that the total surface of Corsica.

...In our reality. In Trek, it's explicitly different, with endless Class M worlds available - and Spock has to give an exceptional rationale for Yorktown to McCoy who clearly feels that Yorktown is an exception to the style of UFP colonization or SF base-building familiar to him. That, too, was a nice touch in the movie (very little of the "cabbagehead" exposition trope there that didn't have a good in-universe excuse!).

Well, it's Kelvinverse, not main timeline) Maybe here the nubmer of M-class planets are significantly lower)

 

[Devon]

The Yorktown fly-through was one of the best sequences I've ever seen, let alone in Star Trek. The music to go with it was majestic too. If you haven't picked up the Beyond soundtrack, listen to "A Night on the Yorktown" on Spotify.

 

[RAMA]

 

[drt]

I wonder how they handle the inevitable cases of vertigo.

I've seen Beyond a couple of times now and still get a bit dizzy at that first fly through.

 

[Timo]

the trolleys

...The only thing I didn't like. Wobbly, noisy, and seemingly redundant. Plus, derivative of the Mezieres-Christin school of scifi art.

Tmo Saloniemi

 

[Timo]

Also, good thing there was no "Vulcan arm". Yorktown supposedly is older than the loss of Vulcan, and if there really are millions living in that bubble (and the dimensions would seem to justify it), then dedicating a whole arm to Vulcans would result in an uncomfortably large offworld community. Uncomfortable in the sense of undermining the "there are only 10,000 of us left" line, that is.

Unless the Vulcan arm were mostly artificial desert with a few huts, that is. Again Mezieres/Christin stuff...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[wamdue]

Yorktown is not getting near enough praise in the movie reviews ive seen, it is amazing and breath taking, every moment of it was thrilling, and unlike some movies it really scaled up in a realistic fashion.

I am so pleased they didn't destroy it. that would have been a crime.

 

[RAMA]

Yorktown is not getting near enough praise in the movie reviews ive seen, it is amazing and breath taking, every moment of it was thrilling, and unlike some movies it really scaled up in a realistic fashion.

I am so pleased they didn't destroy it. that would have been a crime.

It'll be an iconic Trek structure.

 

[David cgc]

Also, good thing there was no "Vulcan arm". Yorktown supposedly is older than the loss of Vulcan

It is? Kirk refers to it as the newest Starbase. It probably took a while to build, but I don't remember anything nailing down specifically how old it was.

 

[Timo]

Hmm. The decisive thing would be Krall learning about the Federation through Yorktown. That supposedly happened sufficiently early to give him lead time with his dastardly plans. But perhaps he whipped those up in a heartbeat?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Just seen Beyond and have to say that Yorktown is hideous.

 

[BillJ]

Just seen Beyond and have to say that Yorktown is hideous.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think Yorktown is absolutely spectacular, but I wasn't kidding about the vertigo. I don't mean the viewers of the film, I meant people who (in-universe) are actually on board the station. That's got to be really disorienting to look up and see skyscrapers hovering over you at all possible angles.

Also, remember the train lines that run throughout the station...they probably pass through a lot of variable gravity areas. I wonder how they deal with that...

 

[Ovation]

I think Yorktown is absolutely spectacular, but I wasn't kidding about the vertigo. I don't mean the viewers of the film, I meant people who (in-universe) are actually on board the station. That's got to be really disorienting to look up and see skyscrapers hovering over you at all possible angles.

Also, remember the train lines that run throughout the station...they probably pass through a lot of variable gravity areas. I wonder how they deal with that...

I imagine the trains have their own artificial gravity and inertial dampeners and whatever other Trek technobabble keeps everything running smoothly. As to what's overhead, I'd bet people stop noticing after a few days.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

The Yorktown Starbase looked spectacular on the big screen!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As to what's overhead, I'd bet people stop noticing after a few days.

Perhaps Starfleet personnel who are about to be posted to Yorktown are given a 'primer' as to what to expect, like a simulator/holodeck which lets them get acclimated to the environment, so it won't be a shock when they actually get there.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

The Yorktown fly-through was one of the best sequences I've ever seen, let alone in Star Trek. The music to go with it was majestic too. If you haven't picked up the Beyond soundtrack, listen to "A Night on the Yorktown" on Spotify.

Completely agree on both points. The various looks at the city from the guy getting into the transporter, the rollercoaster like tram was just wow. The ship 'swimming' through the tunnel was super cool & the connecting arms with with the buildings reminded me of an ant colony. Not sure why.

Love the soundtrack too. 'A Night On The Yorktown ' has become my favorite track. Just don't play it when entering your garage, the view of the garage w/ the music doesn't have the same impact.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Just seen Beyond and have to say that Yorktown is hideous.

I thought so too when I saw it from a distance. But seeing it up close its really quite spectacular.

 

[fireproof78]

Completely agree on both points. The various looks at the city from the guy getting into the transporter, the rollercoaster like tram was just wow. The ship 'swimming' through the tunnel was super cool & the connecting arms with with the buildings reminded me of an ant colony. Not sure why.

Love the soundtrack too. 'A Night On The Yorktown ' has become my favorite track. Just don't play it when entering your garage, the view of the garage w/ the music doesn't have the same impact.

Just wait until I put in that 3D projector to accompany my entrance

Also, Yorktown was one of the few moments that took my breath away. The approach to the base, the flyover, the control center, it all felt incredibly epic. It's Starfleet at its height and it shows.

 

[El Maestro]

^ Agreed.

I would add that Yorktown and pretty much all the scenes/sequences in it are some of the best in Beyond and in all of cinematic Trek. The original movies had Spacedock, which is certainly grand in scale, but you never really get a sense of what it's like there. Yorktown is a whole different thing though; you can see how people would live and work there. The plazas and green spaces and transporter booths and buildings all built over an immense ship dock make it seem like thought was given about how it would feel to occupy such a place far from any home planet. The scenes of the Enterprise flying through the passage under the habitable parts of the station took my breath away and really drove home that this was the FUTURE. Just awesome, in the truest sense of the word. Beyond had some great production design all around and Yorktown was definitely the highlight for me.