Maybe that corridor is in the bowels of the ship...the lower decks. Or an adjoining hallway next to engineering?
Panoramas of Enterprise interior on official site
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It is the lower decks...
Where all the filthy, poor crew members, the criminals and those who feed the Enterpise's engines with the coal necessary for it to work live.
I even think I see a few rats in that picture
It is the lower decks...
Where all the filthy, poor crew members, the criminals and those who feed the Enterpise's engines with the coal necessary for it to work live.
I even think I see a few rats in that picture
The Phantom of the Drydock lurks in those passages...playing his unfolding, portable keyboard...hiding because of the hideous delta radiation scars on his face...
Now what I'm wondering, is where this corridor plays into the overall scheme of things.
*Was a hidden picture on the construction website.
Is this picture showing an unfinished corridor without the finishing panels? - I tend to doubt since the structural supports seem to have built-in lighting that any panels would cover up.
Or could it be that depending on what section you're in, the design aesthetic could change. This "unfinished" corridor could actually be in/near an engineering/mechanical section, and the new one we've see in the trailer, and now updated website, could be in/near sickbay.
Since they said the engineering decks on the Enterprise look much different than the saucer, it could be the engineering hall. Supposedly engineering looks a lot more gritty and primitive for some reason.
Though that hallway is curved, so it could be the Kelvin maybe.
The curved hallway also..........
1. Could also be near the impulse engineering in the primary/saucer section.
2. Wrapping around a massive circular engineering room in the secondary hull.
3. The actual design aesthetic for most of the corridors on the ship, and the white ones for medical & science areas.
PS: Sorry for stirring up this hornets nest. I've just been meaning to ask this question ever since we saw the gleaming white corridors in the first trailer.
Nowhere Man
Commodore
For the first time I found something about this movie I hate:rommie
Let's take into account the Russian's perspective on things with the Mir space station. They realised they were in a null-G situation, so they stuffed equipment into whatever orientation they could make it fit. In null-G, up and down is irrelevant. By extrapolation, curved passageways wouldn't mean diddly in a null-G situation. One must assume that in the movie's time frame, space faring is not an extraordinariy thing. Therefore, null-G situations aren't unexpected. The need for rectiliniear, up-vs-down references has been obviated.
Where am I going with all this? I have no bloody idea. Except that I'm not freaked out by the curved walls beside the obvious waste of available space. I agree, there is an unsettling degree of "Dood, this is SO f'ing kewl!"
Sod it all! What were we drinking?
Where am I going with all this? I have no bloody idea. Except that I'm not freaked out by the curved walls beside the obvious waste of available space. I agree, there is an unsettling degree of "Dood, this is SO f'ing kewl!"
Sod it all! What were we drinking?
Perhaps there are pipes and conduits running the length of the corridors near the ceiling and floor, and the curved walls are a stylish way of covering them (even starship designers should be stylish).
Of course, that doesn't explain where those pipes and conduits that are running along the lower part of the wall go when they get to a door opening...
...so I dunno...I'm just sayin'...
EDIT TO ADD: Now that I thought about it a little, perhaps those pipes and conduits running at floor level behind the wall (for easy maintenance access) drop under the doorway at the wall openings. They may be a little harder to access since they are under the floor at doorways, but what else can you do?
...then again the walls could be curved because it's only a movie -- but I'm one of those who believe a film's general set design should have some function behind it.
Of course, that doesn't explain where those pipes and conduits that are running along the lower part of the wall go when they get to a door opening...
...so I dunno...I'm just sayin'...
EDIT TO ADD: Now that I thought about it a little, perhaps those pipes and conduits running at floor level behind the wall (for easy maintenance access) drop under the doorway at the wall openings. They may be a little harder to access since they are under the floor at doorways, but what else can you do?
...then again the walls could be curved because it's only a movie -- but I'm one of those who believe a film's general set design should have some function behind it.
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Looks great IMO. Red alert will be sweet I'm betting.
Nothing demonstrates the power of a matter/antimatter reaction better than all those lights lit up simultaneously. I'm not kidding -- I got a headache just looking at the panoramas.
I just don't get the need for a circular cross-section, either. If these were consistently null-g environments, then, as Mad Jack Wolf, suggested, it might make sense, but Trek's artificial gravity technology seems awfully reliable.
It's a new look, not one I like very much, and not very functional, but, like the Bridge, tone down the lights by a few million candela and it'll at least look nice.
Personal note: I need to remember to bring Excedrin to this movie ... chewable if they make it.
I just don't get the need for a circular cross-section, either. If these were consistently null-g environments, then, as Mad Jack Wolf, suggested, it might make sense, but Trek's artificial gravity technology seems awfully reliable.
It's a new look, not one I like very much, and not very functional, but, like the Bridge, tone down the lights by a few million candela and it'll at least look nice.
Personal note: I need to remember to bring Excedrin to this movie ... chewable if they make it.
Wow and you never expected to see that on a Science Fiction message board discussing Star Trek? Just wow.....^^^ Doesn't look very much like that comparison at all.
And wow, here comes the technobabble bull.
TGT, keep right on with your view points. I find them interesting.
I think the corridor does look very 2001. I guess that's what they were going for. I like the engineering or Kelvin? corridor a bit more.
Plumster
Commander
Now what I'm wondering, is where this corridor plays into the overall scheme of things.
*Was a hidden picture on the construction website.
Is this picture showing an unfinished corridor without the finishing panels? - I tend to doubt since the structural supports seem to have built-in lighting that any panels would cover up.
Or could it be that depending on what section you're in, the design aesthetic could change. This "unfinished" corridor could actually be in/near an engineering/mechanical section, and the new one we've see in the trailer, and now updated website, could be in/near sickbay.
Since they said the engineering decks on the Enterprise look much different than the saucer, it could be the engineering hall. Supposedly engineering looks a lot more gritty and primitive for some reason.
Though that hallway is curved, so it could be the Kelvin maybe.
The curved hallway also..........
1. Could also be near the impulse engineering in the primary/saucer section.
2. Wrapping around a massive circular engineering room in the secondary hull.
3. The actual design aesthetic for most of the corridors on the ship, and the white ones for medical & science areas.
PS: Sorry for stirring up this hornets nest. I've just been meaning to ask this question ever since we saw the gleaming white corridors in the first trailer.
USS Kelvin I bet.
Wow and you never expected to see that on a Science Fiction message board discussing Star Trek? Just wow.....^^^ Doesn't look very much like that comparison at all.
And wow, here comes the technobabble bull.
Exactly.
Hopefully the ship won't have too much of a "DOOM" feel to some of the corridors. Mood lighting is one thing. Expecting a crab monster to fall on your head from an upper Jeffries tube is another.
You know, as a "space therapist" I'd presume you'd have a basic grasp of psychology.
There's a good reason for corridors (and other spaces) being wider on a long-duration ship. Yes, it's true that on submarines, the corridors are quite cramped. But people serve on those ships for very brief periods, typically. And that's because the "small enclosed spaces" cause the crews to go bat-shit if they're cooped up in them for too long. Not to put to blunt of a point on it, I mean...
In an environment where people are going to live for extended periods, you need more space... even for corridors. You also need eye-pleasing lighting and eye-pleasing color schemes. Not "kewl" color schemes but ones that actually are soothing to the eye, and to the psyche. In situations where the environment has a lot of color (brilliant blue skies and green hills) you'll buildings with plenty of windows done mostly in muted tones (tans and so forth). But in situations where the environment is, itself muted (say, in Albuquerque) you're more likely to find buildings done up with much more color, both internally and externally.
You'll also find that in urban environments, you're likely to see a lot more bright-colored cars, while in more suburban and rural environments, you see more muted-tone cars.
So... imagine you're in deep space for five years. Most of the crew never gets to leave the ship except, perhaps, for shore leave once a year or so. And they're in a situation where, out the windows, they see blackness, and inside the ship, they see brilliantly lit white walls.
Anyone wanna guess how long it'd be 'til the whole crew goes "Psy-2000" without the benefit of the "mutated water virus?"
You know, as a "space therapist" I'd presume you'd have a basic grasp of psychology.
There's a good reason for corridors (and other spaces) being wider on a long-duration ship. Yes, it's true that on submarines, the corridors are quite cramped. But people serve on those ships for very brief periods, typically. And that's because the "small enclosed spaces" cause the crews to go bat-shit if they're cooped up in them for too long. Not to put to blunt of a point on it, I mean...
In an environment where people are going to live for extended periods, you need more space... even for corridors. You also need eye-pleasing lighting and eye-pleasing color schemes. Not "kewl" color schemes but ones that actually are soothing to the eye, and to the psyche. In situations where the environment has a lot of color (brilliant blue skies and green hills) you'll buildings with plenty of windows done mostly in muted tones (tans and so forth). But in situations where the environment is, itself muted (say, in Albuquerque) you're more likely to find buildings done up with much more color, both internally and externally.
You'll also find that in urban environments, you're likely to see a lot more bright-colored cars, while in more suburban and rural environments, you see more muted-tone cars.
So... imagine you're in deep space for five years. Most of the crew never gets to leave the ship except, perhaps, for shore leave once a year or so. And they're in a situation where, out the windows, they see blackness, and inside the ship, they see brilliantly lit white walls.
Anyone wanna guess how long it'd be 'til the whole crew goes "Psy-2000" without the benefit of the "mutated water virus?"
Excellent points. Sometimes when it comes to things like entertainment I often take my therapist hat off. I don't always want to be at work!
But your points are valid. I think in a real star ship the interiors would be more esthetically pleasing and less institutional and military looking, along with being less claustrophobic especially for those long many year space flights.
However, when it comes to a fictionalized science fiction movie or series I think what people may expect the interiors to look like and what may actually be practical could be quite different.
Okay since six pages have been devoted to color and design influences I think I can make this observation.
In corridors A & B, look at the airlock (they are clearly labeled "Airlock") placement relative to the curve of the corridor. Corridor A shows an closed airlock and either a hatch or a turbolift door at the other end.
Corridor B shows an open and closed airlock.
Take a look at the curve of the corridor in both A & B. From this I deduce that we are in the saucer section. Why else would the corridors curve... right? The saucer would be designed as a series of concentric circles, so airlocks would have to be on the outside of the circles, not the inside of, or breaking the circles... wouldn't they?
Yes, I know they need to have pressure doors for the sake of hull breaches and security, but if that's what these are... why are they closed? The lighting does not suggest an alert status.
Just asking.
In corridors A & B, look at the airlock (they are clearly labeled "Airlock") placement relative to the curve of the corridor. Corridor A shows an closed airlock and either a hatch or a turbolift door at the other end.
Corridor B shows an open and closed airlock.
Take a look at the curve of the corridor in both A & B. From this I deduce that we are in the saucer section. Why else would the corridors curve... right? The saucer would be designed as a series of concentric circles, so airlocks would have to be on the outside of the circles, not the inside of, or breaking the circles... wouldn't they?
Yes, I know they need to have pressure doors for the sake of hull breaches and security, but if that's what these are... why are they closed? The lighting does not suggest an alert status.
Just asking.
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