Does Pike's Enterprise have a turbolift funhouse?
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Both ships had turbolift funhouses in the Discovery era.
The Paramount+ app won't let me screenshot it, but if you pull up the Short Treks episode "Q&A," you can see Enterprise's turbolift funhouse starting at the 2:13 mark. Somehow, it looks even more massive than Discovery's.
I totally agree that it's one of the most asinine design decisions I've seen in any episode of any series, and unless Gallifrey has joined the Federation, entirely impossible to exist.
While we're on the topic of that episode, we also had some light vandalization of Mister Spock in the form of him engaging in Elevator Karaoke while grinning like a maniac, so there's that, too.
Wow. Yup. Huge ass turnolift interior. I dont know how this could be explained. Perhaps it's just mirrors lined along the turbo lift innards which make it look huge....idk. just stupid...smh..
Is it hot in here or is it just me?
Well, as I was told earlier nit everything in science fiction gets explained. Also, I recall a line from the TOS writers bible about not explaining everything.
I'm eagerly awaiting an episode where they're like, "we can't fit all these colonists on the ship and their planet is about to explode!" at which point I will SPAM the thread with pictures of the Turbolift Funhouse.
Thinking that scene was in for comedy is really clutching at straws
I more thinking someone had fun with it, found it enjoyable and humorous and ran with it.
I don't know. And frankly, even if it isn't, I also am struggling really really hard to assigned any sort of malicious or apathetic intent behind the scenes by the VFX team
It sure didn't seem like the disco turbo fun house was in a comedy episode. If I recall Burnham was having some kind of fight. When I first saw it I thought what was the person smoking who came up with this turbolift schematic. I mean really it was idiotic.
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That fight was in Season 3.
The first time we see it in Season 2 it was just a normal turbolift scene.
Someone did the measurements of the one seen in Season 2 and based on the size of the turbolift cars it would fit inside the Discovery's secondary hull. There's also a diagram from the art team from Season 2 showing where it is on the ship and it is in the secondary hull.
The Season 3 one wouldn't fit as it is portrayed a lot bigger, but according to the Enterprise 'Future Tense', by the 31st Century they will have bigger on the inside tech, so it doesn't need to fit.
The fight scene made it even more ludicrous. No way all that space fit unless the whole secondary hull is void space for turbolifts.
Read the last sentence of my post.
The ship isn't a 31st century ship. So no its never made sense and still doesn't.
It was refit with 32nd century technology remember?
It was refit, as stated in the season.
Not that it would be the first ship with sets that didn't fit.
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