Bring me a six-pack from the engineering!
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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.
It looks nothing like the starship engineering sections you've worked on?
As a (former) physicist, and as I pointed out above, a particle accelerator facility doesn't look that different from a brewery, and yes, I've been to both.
Also looks amazingly like the engine room of a real ocean going ship, too. Pipes, valves, tanks, big blocks of machinery, catwalks, etc. Whether its beer, steam, gasoline or warp plasma, methods of routing fluids between machines don't change much visually.
I mean, to the untrained eye the engine room of a nuclear aircraft carrier would look identical to that of a conventional one.
I can see the rationale for having large tanks, a pipe network, ladders, and catwalks for an industrial setting, but I think they used too MUCH of the brewery -- adding in a few green screens here and there not only to make the brewery less recognizable, but to also add in a few more aesthetic touches already established by other areas of the Enterprise, would have gone a long way, I think.
In one of the previous threads about the brewery, someone posted up some old pre-production concept images of engineering, and they looked pretty spiffy, but I think it indicated that the crew was running out of budget to make it match even one of the images.
In one of the previous threads about the brewery, someone posted up some old pre-production concept images of engineering, and they looked pretty spiffy, but I think it indicated that the crew was running out of budget to make it match even one of the images.
Here we go again!
I really liked the anachronistic look of the engineering complex. The sense of scale and complexity was breathtaking. And considering the TOS engine room was all pipes and tanks too (albiet on a much smaller scale) I don't see the problem.
And remember, people - the TNG Enterprise had a pot-bellied stove for a warp core.
I was gonna go with "dear Lord, not this again...."
I like the new look, it's different and cool. They should keep it the way it is...and I definitely want a six-pack of engineering lager!
You know, I really got that ugly feeling they will upgrade the engineering in the next movie to (at least) some TMP degree. Speaking about next movie - it would be nice if we could see the interior of other XI starship classes (Armstrong/Mayflower/Newton).
I'd imagine that since they're all made from USS Kelvin parts, that they'd all look like the Kelvin.ToMaHaKeR said:
I didn't really care. The industrial spaces worked fine for the movie.
Obviously I was going to come down on Dennis like a ton of bricks for this
, but then I happened to watch the section where the current caption photo is taken from (when they walk through engineering to attack the drill etc). I have to admit that apart form the corrugated tanks which look very 20th Century, it isn't too bad. What dragged me out of the movie for the second time (after the bar fight of course!) were the shiny tanks where they found Uhura. I actually thought they were from a milk processing plant, but certainly not something you would find on a starship. Worse, it looked like someone had left a few computers there by mistake. The catwalk scenes were somewhere in between but mainly too cavernous, in my view.
^Funny that the tanks bothered you, but you didn't notice the very 20th century window carelessly left uncovered at the end of the chamber (which I LOL'd at when, after several viewings, I finally spotted it)
And I still can't spot it unless you mean that black retangular thing(s) with what could be pipes coming down from it. Hard to tell what that is.
I still say there isn't one half way serious SF fan who didn't think to themselves: "Which school trip did I see shiny tanks like those on?"
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