I didn't mind some of the engineering sets, but I thought the room where Kirk finds Uhura was absolutely horrible and completely stupid looking....let's shine lights on giant brewery containers and call it a linguistic area.
I thought that was part of Engineering too, not a "linguistic area"![]()
It wouldn't make any sense for Uhura to be in engineering. At least in the novelization, its supposed to be a communications monitoring station. In the movie, there's a lot of chatter going on, so that seems like what it is supposed to be in the film as well.