Budweiser is back!!!

[Trekker4747]

The use of what I just thought was some large factory for the ship interior for engineering was just dumb to me. I guess I could rationalize it for being the engineering section and the deep under-workings of the ship, when Kirk is running through the tanks I can see those as being the antimatter pods, deuterium tanks, or what-have you. I can make some sense of it.

Yeah, I sort of think that a 23rd century space-ship might not have metal grating, scaffolding and catwalks but, whatever.

That all falls apart when Uhura, a communications officer, is working between a bunch of large tanks with valves and pipes on them and you can see a giant steel wall in the background with rivets and shit in it.

Uhura is a linguist and likely was working an a language lab or something, so it sort of breaks any "reality" to see her working on a computer thats station between giant tanks with valves and junk on it.

Shit like that was hard to ignore and justify.

 

[F. King Daniel]

According to the script, Uhura was working in the ship's "signals monitoring station". It's described as "[an] enourmous space -- giant steel collector tanks surround a dozen workstations where crew members collect data"

Sounds perfectly justified to me.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

^ I would agree with Trekker 4747 regarding the scene with Uhura. I think she'd be working in a center that looked more like a high-tech office facility rather than a high-tech warehouse. Sounds to me like someone wrote the script already knowing the scene would be filmed in the brewery, so they made the script description fit the set.

After all, the folks working at the Arecibo Observatory don't work sitting out in the middle of the collecting dish.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

rivets

Were there rivets visible on the Enterprise in TOS?

 

[tighr]

Uhura is a linguist and likely was working an a language lab or something, so it sort of breaks any "reality" to see her working on a computer thats station between giant tanks with valves and junk on it.

While I can see her working in a lab, its also possible she was in that engineering space for a reason. She was just a cadet, after all, and not the lieutenant in charge of communications on the bridge. It's likely that in nuTrek Abrams envisioned an entire Communications team (something that makes too much damn sense to have ignored on the series) with separate duties. It wasn't until the incompetent lieutenant was relieved of his duties for failure to distinguish between Romulan and Vulcan that Uhura made it to the bridge.

Even McCoy wasn't the Chief Medical Officer, he was just a doctor on the CMO's team. At least until that guy bit the bullet.

 

[Draculasaurus]

The stick isn't in my ass, it's down my throat when I have to drink such an inferior watery product. What gets to me about it is that plenty of similarly priced commercial beers are vastly superior, never mind the imports or micro brews. I just don't get why anyone would actually choose Bud over something else the same price.

I absolutely love good beer. It's disappointing that American beer culture has gone so far down hill, but there really IS a time and place for Budweiser type beers.
I live in central Texas, when it's 110 degrees out, and I get done working outside, a Guinness sounds about as good as a mouth full of sand.
I don't understand why people drink Budweiser up north, or in the winter though. There's a beer for every time and place.

 

[RoJoHen]

I absolutely love good beer. It's disappointing that American beer culture has gone so far down hill, but there really IS a time and place for Budweiser type beers.

Beer culture in the US is improving. Microbrews are becoming more and more popular all the time.

 

[tighr]

I absolutely love good beer. It's disappointing that American beer culture has gone so far down hill, but there really IS a time and place for Budweiser type beers.

Beer culture in the US is improving. Microbrews are becoming more and more popular all the time.

So is beer snobbery, i.e. people who drink microbrews because someone with a stick up his ass told him that "ewe R teh luzer if you drink Budweiser lolololololo!!!!!!!1!!one!!"

As Draculasaurus puts it, there is a time and place for macrobrew.

I could just envision a bunch of wannabe hipsters with pink polos and khakis wearing sweaters around their necks playing a game of beer pong with whatever the local brewery calls a Porter. Probably playing it with pint glasses, too.

 

[RoJoHen]

Nah, they'd play it with PBR.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

Psht. The people doing this don't care about what Star Trek was. They just want to do their own thing.

 

[Trekker4747]

^ I would agree with Trekker 4747 regarding the scene with Uhura. I think she'd be working in a center that looked more like a high-tech office facility rather than a high-tech warehouse. Sounds to me like someone wrote the script already knowing the scene would be filmed in the brewery, so they made the script description fit the set.

Exactly.

It makes no sense that Uhura (a command-line communications officer and linguistics expert) would be working in a room filled with giant tanks and valves.

 

[RoJoHen]

Maybe she was visiting somebody on her lunch break.

I work in an office, but I sure as hell don't spend 8 hours a day sitting at my desk.

 

[JarodRussell]

According to the script, Uhura was working in the ship's "signals monitoring station". It's described as "[an] enourmous space -- giant steel collector tanks surround a dozen workstations where crew members collect data"

Sounds perfectly justified to me.

They collect data and put them in steel collector tanks.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The stick isn't in my ass, it's down my throat when I have to drink such an inferior watery product. What gets to me about it is that plenty of similarly priced commercial beers are vastly superior, never mind the imports or micro brews. I just don't get why anyone would actually choose Bud over something else the same price.

I absolutely love good beer. It's disappointing that American beer culture has gone so far down hill, but there really IS a time and place for Budweiser type beers.
I live in central Texas, when it's 110 degrees out, and I get done working outside, a Guinness sounds about as good as a mouth full of sand.

Yep we get to 110 for days at a time most summers in Australia. A Corona with lime in it would be my choice on those days. Corona is not good beer but it is certainly very well suited to that kind of heat. And it's vastly better than Bud. There are also a lot of Asian beers that suit that temperature but if you want the lower end of the price range Corona is a great one in the heat.

If I drank a stout in that heat I would probably pass out, LOLOL

 

[nightwind1]

rivets

Were there rivets visible on the Enterprise in TOS?

Nope, at least not inside.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

rivets

Were there rivets visible on the Enterprise in TOS?

Nope, at least not inside.

That is what I thought, thanks for answering. This is kind of disturbing actually.

As to beer, I've started a beer thread in Misc if anyone wants to talk beer

 

[tighr]

Were there rivets visible on the Enterprise in TOS?

Nope, at least not inside.

That is what I thought, thanks for answering. This is kind of disturbing actually.

I'm sure that engineering would be double-hulled, and you probably would be able to see rivets on an unfinished wall. After all, you can see rivets on the inside of naval vessels today.

 

[nightwind1]

Nope, at least not inside.

That is what I thought, thanks for answering. This is kind of disturbing actually.

I'm sure that engineering would be double-hulled, and you probably would be able to see rivets on an unfinished wall. After all, you can see rivets on the inside of naval vessels today.

Only if they're riveted. In the 23rd Century, there is probably a better way to do it, like plasma welding, or molecular superglue.

 

[24thcenstfan]

Wasn't a huge fan of the brewery. I think they need to do a good bit of decorating to make it work in the next film. Problem is, we already know its a brewery, so suspending disbelief is an issue (for me at least).

 

[The Dominion]

I don't really have a problem with it being used as a set, but not as the main engineering. The warp core is supposed to be the greatest invention in the history of humanity, and the brewery made it look like some steam driven boiler room.