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Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™

If 90's trek has taught me anything, its that none of this really matters, even to the writers. The Enterprise-e had 26 decks until it didn't, voyager had only had 38 torpedoes until it didn't and endless supply of shuttles and the delta flyer was too big to fit inside the ship given its interior dimensions and so on. The things you accuse new trek of doing have been with the franchise a long time. Ultimately story and set pieces matter more than adhering to a fans desire for factual consistency in a fictional universe.
I think there are three categories of problems here:

There's things like the Enterprise E growing by two decks during a movie, the Defiant changing size, the Delta Flyer not fitting inside Voyager, Book's ship clipping Discovery's landing bay etc. Things that most people aren't going to notice, and would often need to examine screencaps to prove. Mistakes are going to be made and sometimes the artists will bend reality slightly for a better shot, it's fine.

Then there's things like Discovery's turbolift dimension, which is the producers blatantly going for spectacle over reality and assuming no one will notice or care. The trouble is that it's so obvious that the moment you see it, it breaks the spell of the episode. It can't be real, so I don't take it as real anymore. This is not good.

Finally there's things like Voyager's torpedo count and infinite shuttles. Personally I didn't keep count of Voyager's torpedoes and I doubt many people did, and you could easily come up with explanations for how they got more. The trouble with Voyager's resource issues is that they were set up to be a big part of the series and something we should care about, so it's less that the writers were abandoning reality and more that they were abandoning their premise. Which is arguably worse.

I guess what I'm saying here is that different people will be able to overlook different things, so to say that story and set pieces matter more than consistency isn't always true. It certainly isn't true for me, because a flashy set piece is just noise on the screen if I don't buy what's happening.
 
Minus one, meaning me.

Either I don't get so immersed in the story that I forget that it's make believe, or it's just not important enough for me to bother caring. Not sure which, but hey.



That's never bothered me. Not a whit. Maybe they labeled decks in some kind of alien numerical system. Whatever. :techman:
Since that particular ship was supposed to have basically been thrown together quickly in order to be ready for Kirk & Gang, I always assumed that the engineers used prebuilt bulkheads destined for a starbase somewhere, thus the large numbers.
Scotty did say she wasn't really in the best of shape.
 
The annoying thing is I had a quote from one of the people who created the visual effects for the turbolift sequence and I can't find it now.
It's pretty obvious the SP-FX Team threw in the turbolift sequence as a bit of fun and to add some excitement to the eventual chase scene with Booker.
I don't think it's any worse than Riker and the Viceroy fighting over a bottomless pit in the bottom of the Enterprise-E secondary hull in "NEMESIS".

Most folks just go with the flow and enjoy the scene for what it's worth with Riker/Booker eventually defeating the Bad Guy.
 
No doubt something about screw the fans and the horse they road in on.
The gist of it was that the live action stuff was filmed first and they were asked to make the scope of the CGI visuals bigger and bigger so that it'd look more dramatic.

I don't think it's any worse than Riker and the Viceroy fighting over a bottomless pit in the bottom of the Enterprise-E secondary hull in "NEMESIS".
That's a really low bar.
 
It's pretty obvious the SP-FX Team threw in the turbolift sequence as a bit of fun and to add some excitement to the eventual chase scene with Booker.
I don't think it's any worse than Riker and the Viceroy fighting over a bottomless pit in the bottom of the Enterprise-E secondary hull in "NEMESIS".

Most folks just go with the flow and enjoy the scene for what it's worth with Riker/Booker eventually defeating the Bad Guy.
Yeah, worked real well. Most folks just went to see Maid in Manhattan instead.
 
Most folks just went to see Maid in Manhattan instead.
No kidding? I could have seen that? Instead?
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: We already know from ENT S2 that ships in the relative past of DIS S3/4 already had technology that allowed them to be bigger on the inside, so the Infinite Turbolift of "That Hope Is You, Part II" isn't really a problem. :)
 
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