I LOVED the movie, but I don't know if I liked engineering....

[The Rock]

Don't get me wrong, I loved this movie. It was very very different than any other Star Trek I've ever seen before but it was still fantastic.

But I can't get over how engineering looked on this new Enterprise. It looked like the inside of a nuclear power plant or something. It looked so old-fashioned. Even more old-fashioned than the NX-01 engineering! Now I don't know about you all, but my favorite version of engineering was from TMP. That one looked like futuristic but it also looked like stuff was happening down there (as opposed to say TNG's engineering where it looked like an office). But the engineering in this Enterprise? I don't know. I just don't know. Still a great movie though.

 

[J Archer]

I thought it looked far too big. It looked like it was 99% pipes/tubes and then that little platform Scotty was working from...

 

[The Rock]

I thought it looked far too big. It looked like it was 99% pipes/tubes and then that little platform Scotty was working from...

I know right! Especially the wide shots of it. It made it look like that that was the only room in the stardrive section.

 

[Michael]

I for one absolutely loved the new engineering set. I don't really care that in reality it is a brewery. It just felt very big, convoluted and real.

 

[trekkiedane]

Don't get me wrong, I loved this movie. It was very very different than any other Star Trek I've ever seen before but it was still fantastic.

But I can't get over how engineering looked on this new Enterprise. It looked like the inside of a nuclear power plant or something. It looked so old-fashioned. Even more old-fashioned than the NX-01 engineering! Now I don't know about you all, but my favorite version of engineering was from TMP. That one looked like futuristic but it also looked like stuff was happening down there (as opposed to say TNG's engineering where it looked like an office). But the engineering in this Enterprise? I don't know. I just don't know. Still a great movie though.

I have the same problem with the hangar deck/shuttle bay/whatever you want to call it; too gritty!

 

[EnsignRicky]

I especially liked the Willy Wonka water tubes.

 

[davejames]

I wasn't crazy about the idea at first either, but watching the movie I thought it fit in rather well.

It certainly gave the Enterprise a gritty, realistic feel, but it never felt to me like the characters were just walking around in a brewery (although like others, I wouldn't have minded seeing a more traditional warp core in the midst of all that).

And personally I'm not bothered by the scale problem. It might be more realistic to have a smaller and more compact Engineering, but the huge size here really conveys the size and power of the Enterprise as a whole. Which to me is all that really matters.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Yeah. One thing is it really didn't feel very "futuristic." Between the bar, the Corvette, Scotty's substation, Engineering, and even the bridge, it really felt like it was 20 years in the future and not two-and-a-half centuries.

But it's a minor thing and it doesn't really bother me.

 

[Jon1701]

I for one absolutely loved the new engineering set. I don't really care that in reality it is a brewery. It just felt very big, convoluted and real.

Ditto.

Pipes are pipes. Are people telling me there are no pipes in the future?

 

[MichaelStivic]

I loved the movie but I thought engineering looked awful. TMP's engineering looked broad and expansive without looking like the engineering section of an ocean-liner.

I respectfully disagree with Abrams' team on their engineering design, but it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the film at all and it's not that big of a deal to me.

 

[trekkiedane]

Pipes are pipes. Are people telling me there are no pipes in the future?

The future isn't pipes - it's a collection of tubes!

 

[npsf3000]

I hated one shot when it looked like they had a entire warehouse set up there just for pipes- what a waste of space!

 

[nx1701g]

Did anyone else notice that there appeared to be bricks in main engineering?

 

[DarthPipes]

The boiler room will take a little getting used to but I love the fact that engineering is so damn large.

 

[shapeshifter]

I thought this engineering was very in tune with the style of engineering in TOS, only bigger and busier.

 

[Atariboy]

Engineering reminded me of that cheap-ass B-movie MST3K lampooned, the one where they used the old Galactica model and obviously filmed the interiors in a warehouse.

And the water turbine made zero sense.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

The boiler room will take a little getting used to but I love the fact that engineering is so damn large.

Seconded.

 

[trekkiedane]

Did anyone else notice that there appeared to be bricks in main engineering?

No, but I did notice some structures that looked a lot like they were cast in concrete - Not saying that it's not a material that wouldn't be usable in spaceships, just mentioning that it isn't very Trek - I had a Red Dwarf flash back...

 

[nx1701g]

Did anyone else notice that there appeared to be bricks in main engineering?

No, but I did notice some structures that looked a lot like they were cast in concrete - Not saying that it's not a material that wouldn't be usable in spaceships, just mentioning that it isn't very Trek - I had a Red Dwarf flash back...

Sorry for the confusion, that was what I meant.

 

[trekkiedane]

so two of us noticed