Interesting...the reflections on the glass of the central control area indicate those wall- wheel things are all over the place and the room itself is circular and enormous!
They look like they're standing in front of giant speakers in a room on the planet of the gold aliens from Guardians of the Galaxy 2
If you remove the silly steampunk "transporter" on the left, the rest of the set in the image is very interesting looking and very Trek-y.
Could the weird steampunk thing be a decontamination chamber or something? If you look past that in the new image, we see what looks much more like a traditional transporter chamber.
Those cover photos are outstanding! They got my blood flowing. ed - Uh oh, what happened to the post I quoted?
lol! I deleted it when I realized I was wrong -- they're definitely not the same transporter rooms. :-) But I do agree that the pictures are great! I have concerns about the show in general but the production design is gorgeous!
That was an embarrassing idea, but it was driven by the need to sex-up the show to increase the ratings; production and marketing needs distort the intended story. It's like the theory put forward by E.C Henry that the cutouts in Discovery's saucer are there to give them more places to put pretty windows -- making the ship look cooler rather than serving a specific purpose. It's easy to criticize the decon gel scenes, but the reality of the entertainment business is that Enterprise might not have lasted as long as it did without them ... they almost certainly added to the show's ratings.
The decon scenes didn't make sense! For the gel to effectively contact all areas of the epidermis, the characters should have been totally naked rather than half-dressed. Kor
My thinking on the decon scenes, besides unnecessary, were that they get into a chamber, grab jars (which now are contaminated by the contact), and rub it on each other. Wouldn't it have been more efficient for the landing party to enter the chamber and have the decon applied via some spray or mist? Jesus, Bond and Honey were rinsed of radioactivity by hoses and soap in 1962! It was clumsy and excessive to have a decon chamber with rubbing gel.
I agree, but while hoses and soap work well enough for scrubbing away radioactive contaminants, we also have to include possible biological contaminants that might be inhaled, ingested, or find other ways into the body of a hapless crewman. So in addition to standing naked under some kind of fluid bath, there should probably be something inhaled and ingested! Setting aside the obvious frat party implications, there should also be different levels of quarantine protocol for all returning landing party members, ranging from twenty-four to seventy-two hours depending on the kinds of contact involved in the mission. Done realistically, there should have been isolation provided for returning crew from the shuttlepod hangar to sickbay -- a whole section of the ship intended to process the isolated for the appropriate duration, along with access to sickbay should symptoms develop. Failing that, returning crew should have immediately donned isolation suits intended to minimize contact with other crew until they could make it to decon. Showing such routines regularly probably would have left the show dull. The whole decon gel idea was at least a token nod of the problem, even if it was over eroticized for ratings.