I'm not saying that SNW can't go in a different direction. But be clear that it is only because they wanted to. Not because the old stats "didn't work". World War III can't be in 1996. But the Enterprise can certainly still be ~1000 feet long.
If 442 makes more sense because of the interiors you have to pick your show. The sets are larger on SNW. So if 442 makes more sense for SNW then that's an acknowledgement that the TOS figures made more sense for TOS. And if 442 makes sense for TOS then is it still too small for SNW?
No, it really is because the old stats didn't work, and we are already taking the figures from TOS into account. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that 289m for TOS made sense for that show, and that enlargement was only necessary for SNW sets. The figures for TOS famously never did make sense, long before SNW came around.
All of the below is strictly regarding TOS only:
-Each deck has at least 10 feet of internal space as depicted on-screen and in construction plans. In a 289m Enterprise, due to the size and number of decks, the max amount of space a deck could occupy is 8 feet. Taking into account the space between decks, this means the ceiling is only going to be 6 feet tall, 7' being generous, with doorways being even lower. I don't recall Spock having to duck under doorways. Depending on the space between decks, the 1701 can be calculated to be between 402 and 440 meters to properly accommodate them. This scale matches Doug Drexler's deck plan that he created for the Defiant used in
In a Mirror Darkly which was ~432m.
-The shuttle bay/shuttles as depicted literally cannot fit within a 289m Enterprise. The bare-minimum size the ship needs to be in order to barely contain the bay is 331m, and when taking more reference into account like the shuttlecraft and crewman heights it must be 401m or greater. (The TMP cargo bay also does not fit into the refit either at the old scale)
-The bridge famously never fit properly into the dome, necessitating rotating it to the side so that the turbolift has somewhere to be. In a 400+ meter Enterprise, that's no longer a problem. Now the bridge can face forward, the turbolift can stay where it is, and the cab can move around into the shaft in the back as it departs.
So considering the above, SNW is doing us a favor by making 442m official. At around that scale, all the sets as depicted in TOS could finally fit properly inside the ship. It's got nothing to do with pitting new against old, it's simply about what is logical and consistent. And as of recently, what is canon.
