Enterprise D Virtual Tour
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Wow - this is amazing.
Indeed, even looking over the official blueprints or cut-away poster you get a feel for how MASSIVE the ship's interior space is. Last year there was a site that created the first few decks in an 8-bit interface but has never expanded.
If this expands to encompass the entire ship, which would be huge, that would be utterly remarkable esp. if it utilizes Oculus rift. And it does seem the first few decks are melded by ramps and stairs. Beyond that I think everything is either turbolifts or jefferies tubes.
It was neat seeing the massive Main Shuttlebay,
The path from the observation lounge up to the bridge was sloped, I believe. Although we never saw the actual corridor, you can either see them coming "up" from somewhere to the bridge, or "down" to the lounge. From the deck schematics, the two rooms are on different levels.
I personally like the addition of stairs to the D. It makes sense -- the ship is huge and carries families (thousands of people). Why should everyone who wants to go up or down a floor have to take a turbolift, or climb a Jeffries tube? Those make for a horribly inefficient emergency escape routes, too.
This rendering is inspired by the scope of the nu-Enterprise, which is fine considering the scale of this ship. It would be really neat to see a modern day FX/CG take on the full interior (for which I suppose this is a teaser).
*Thousand* people. The ship only had 1,014 people on board. Never "thousands."
And as far as I'm aware the blue prints only show hints of stairs in the "center island" on the top of the hull where the bridge and upper decks are (all this video shows.) Below those decks it's pretty much only turbos and tubes. As for emergency escape, there's likely access to an escape pod on every deck so no matter where you are you can get to escape. And there's only one corridor and turbo-tube (also likely Jefferie's tube) in the interconnect between the two major sections of the ship. It's probably safe to assume that with the exception of really extreme or rare circumstances the turbolifts always work (much like the artificial gravity.)
In the show it's only ever implied the Ob-Lounge has two ramps leading off it, one goes directly to the bridge, the other to a turbolift. But we never really see the inside of this corridor enough to know exactly what it looks like. The ramps to the lower decks and other points is consistent with the official blueprints.
And as far as I'm aware the blue prints only show hints of stairs in the "center island" on the top of the hull where the bridge and upper decks are (all this video shows.) Below those decks it's pretty much only turbos and tubes. As for emergency escape, there's likely access to an escape pod on every deck so no matter where you are you can get to escape. And there's only one corridor and turbo-tube (also likely Jefferie's tube) in the interconnect between the two major sections of the ship. It's probably safe to assume that with the exception of really extreme or rare circumstances the turbolifts always work (much like the artificial gravity.)
In the show it's only ever implied the Ob-Lounge has two ramps leading off it, one goes directly to the bridge, the other to a turbolift. But we never really see the inside of this corridor enough to know exactly what it looks like. The ramps to the lower decks and other points is consistent with the official blueprints.
Order of magnitude. It's a lot of people who could benefit from a stairwell, instead of a turbolift with a maximum load of 5.
I applaud the artist for inserting the stairs, because I think it makes total sense. I don't care if it wasn't in the original schematics, because those don't detail every feature of every deck. And I reiterate, for a mass evacuation when the power goes out -- ALL power goes out (think Whale Probe, or Borg) -- you need freely-flowing escape routes. Big stairwells will provide that.
It's implied because we see them coming "up" or "down" from something. Ergo: a ramp. Twenty-five years before I saw the video we're discussing, I envisioned a ramp from the bridge to the conference room. I again care not for whether it was in plans or if we ever saw it.
In fact, don't understand your comments on / criticism of my post. If you agree with me, why do you seemingly fight it?
I think it's cool to have stairs. Certainly portions of the ship were less utilitarian than others - we saw interior corridors with decorations that looked like hotel lobbies. I could definitely see stairs/ramps on the Galaxy-class.
There certainly are a lot of lounges too - I like that that was included in this design. I would've loved to see that one overlooking the main shuttlebay on the show.
There certainly are a lot of lounges too - I like that that was included in this design. I would've loved to see that one overlooking the main shuttlebay on the show.
I love it so far. For an early unfinished look, it's remarkable. And sure, some of the decisions made don't mesh with my own mental image of the interior, but I still love the feel of it all. He doesn't just change established stuff for the sake of it, and it can't be easy to introduce a huge scale to things when we are all much more familiar with the undersized (or underseen) version they could afford to show on TV.
According to his website, he is using the official Blueprints, unofficial blueprints (forgot the name of the source), his own design wishes and community input.
Actually you can. He is using Unreal engine, which uses something called "streaming". It means that the graphics engine can load and unload things to and from the memory on the fly. So you can model the entire ship, but only the parts that are visible and immediately accessible have to fit in the working memory.
I like the stairs, too. While the ship may only have had 1,014 people, it has (as I see online and I also remembered this from elsewhere) a possible total limit of 3,000 people (say exvacuation from other ships, colonies, a planet). Cramming turbolifts and lying up transporters with 1,000 to 3,000 people depending on the situation, just isn't feasible.
Especially in situations where the ifts may go down or even deck/ship wide power failures.
Especially in situations where the ifts may go down or even deck/ship wide power failures.
Yeah, the realization of the Main Shuttlebay was incredible. But I can't quite say I see it being such an utter hub of activity with shuttles always coming and going. I mean, how often do they really even use the shuttles? Seeing the Runabout in it was cool.
I imagine that off screen there's a lot of activity we don't see or hear about.
Someone coming or going. A new crew rotation happening.
It is the flagship.
I imagine that off screen there's a lot of activity we don't see or hear about.
Someone coming or going. A new crew rotation happening.
It is the flagship.
Re-supply, too. Scientific scouting parties...
I imagine that off screen there's a lot of activity we don't see or hear about.
Someone coming or going. A new crew rotation happening.
It is the flagship.
True, but it still seems like a lot. I mean, it's a exploration ship overlooking a star or someother, it's not freaking O'Hare International Airport!
You and me both.This is sweet. What I wouldn't give for a new Trek game using this!
I'm totally getting an Oculus Rift if this happens.
Now that's cool.
I was thinking a project like this would use turbolifts as loading screens or something.
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