USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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The colors can help make all the difference. The DSC Enterprise bridge designers should remember that.
Still glad to that we got what we did.
Main enginbeering was my favourite.
In all seriousness I loved the Kelvin sets and liked how the Enterprise had the shiny upper decks/grubby below decks look. It was more distinctive than the way most other trek shows used the same line of curved and straight corridors to represent the whole ship.
I genuinely loved the disused power plant (USS Kelvin) beer brewery and NIF locations (Enterprise) used for engineering in ST'09 and ID. It made the ships look huge and complex, full of wonder and crazy dangerous stuff. And it was DIFFERENT from the tedious blue lava lamps we'd been fed for decades.
That's why I love the Discovery Turbolift Funhouse. Similar energy. Can't wait until the ship breaks down and they're climbing around in the cavernous spaces between decks.
That's why I love the Discovery Turbolift Funhouse. Similar energy. Can't wait until the ship breaks down and they're climbing around in the cavernous spaces between decks.
You mean swinging across chasms à la Star Wars, right?
Has anyone figured on a logical place for the funhouse to be? I was thinking that its in the neck used for storage and the windows on the neck are all hallways on the outside of funhouse.
The neck and secondary hull. Just assume it's all hollow, with rooms dotted about and corridors linking them. It helps explain how such a massive ship has only 130 crew. Much of the volume is uninhabitable.
The Kelvin engine room sets literally had a steam pipes, a steam boiler and a brick wall visible. That is the polar opposite of what I expect some futuristic tech to look like.
The Into Darkness Enterprise was done well imo with something that looks like it would belong in CERN.
Agreed. It look very complex, which I appreciated.
I'm starting to look at 'science' vessels in Star Trek very differently. I'm now imagining that the Grissom was actually quite state-of-the-art and had pod launching bays and all kinds of whacky technology lying around, if not their own funhouse on such a small ship.
I did enjoy these things as they look more industrial and less plastic-y. It does end up looking mundane, however, since it's just using real things as futuristic ones.
That's my biggest problem with the 2009 engineering section besides its obnoxious, almost early 20th century industrial scale and look. It looked too much like a modern beer brewery. If they were going to use beer vats and seemingly endless rows of piping to represent a mid-23rd century Starfleet engine room couldn't they have used more labels or slapped a CGI paint job on those vats so they looked more like coolant tanks and less like, well, BEER VATS?
The size, well, that's not even worth arguing over since JJ decided to make his timeline's ships that much bigger than the original's. But couldn't they have used some CGI to make engineering look less like a Budweiser plant and more like the technology we're supposed to have 250 years from now? If you're going to go weird then at least make it look like a futuristic weird.
The size, well, that's not even worth arguing over since JJ decided to make his timeline's ships that much bigger than the original's. But couldn't they have used some CGI to make engineering look less like a Budweiser plant and more like the technology we're supposed to have 250 years from now? If you're going to go weird then at least make it look like a futuristic weird.
Yeah, it was like something from a low budget student film.
It was the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Labs.
Having done those I wish we had looked that good.
In my opinion, future tech should be treated as more mundane and not take away from the characters themselves.
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The Neck is the ideal place, its the worst place to have actual full decks due to it being the most narrow point on the ship.
Into Darkness did add loads of consoles and Enterprisey bits. ST'09, not so much
In the 23rd century, brick is the new wood finish.
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