Being that the 'brewery-deck' wasn't my favorite part of the film either, can you elaborate, as an engineer, what you might've done differently? I'm genuinely curious.
I hope that late is better than never
Space is a concern. A big one. Always. Its a big concern when we are talking about 20th century equipment going into factories on planet Earth, its a concern when we are talking about 20th century ships floating about Earth's oceans. And it is a hypothetical concern when talking about 23rd century hypothetical starships. I don't doubt that the Enterprise needs those big tanks, but it doesn't need them sitting in a gigantic half empty room the way it was shown.
That gigantic half empty room is another problem in and if itself. I know that the Enterprise in XI has gotten much, much larger than what we are used to from TOS all the way through to Nemesis so I can let that one go (but only after I learned the Enterprise grew, when I first saw the movie I didn't know that and it was part of what annoyed me). The problem with having such a large, open space on a ship is how terrible it is for structural integrity. We know they have structural integrity fields and the like, but its still a terrible design. Also, I don't think they have full blow forcefields in the 23rd century, do they? And as such if there is ever a hull breach that whole thing and everyone in it is venting right out into space.
There are other points I disliked, but I haven't seen the movie in a while and they escape me.
In any case, I understand what they were trying to do, I just think they failed miserably.
