Some great camera tricks

[PCz911]

To judge from that ceiling design, Matt Jefferies thought Main Engineering was in the secondary hull. And fairly far aft, where the hull is narrower, because the Engine Room ceiling seems to span the whole width.

And maybe he thought the caged pipes went up into the angled pylons that support the warp engines. That's been a fan theory at times, and in Jefferies' mind it might have been canon.

Wow…. To be honest, I never even considered this… but I have to say, it’s a very convincing argument. I grew up with the FJD blueprints and just sort of assumed he had inside knowledge. My tiny little mind is blown!

 

[Just a Bill]

I grew up with the FJD blueprints and just sort of assumed he had inside knowledge.

Nah, he made up a ton of stuff out of the blue. I frankly get a little tired of the extreme reverence and canon-like status given to his imaginings.

I cherish the TM my parents bought me half a century ago, and FJ's works are fun -- a lot of fun -- but they are no more authoritative than a novel or comic book or video game or squirt gun. Trek merch had apallingly low standards for its licensees back then.