It's called the Discovery Turbolift Funhouse™ and it's the best thing to happen to starships since the brewery thing.So, yeah, a turbo elevator roller coaster....
Everything we know about USS Discovery's interior
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Apart from the "turbolift funhouse," the Discovery interiors are wonderful, in my opinion. I like how they do pipes in the Discovery - not being in some brewery but having them along the corridors and such (especially as seen in "Brother"). A lot of what I see is top-notch first-rate production design (and not just Discovery itself, but Qo'noS as well).
I'll take the "turbolift funhouse" over the brewery any day of the week though.
I'll take the "turbolift funhouse" over the brewery any day of the week though.
Yup. I still insist on this being part and parcel of what turbolift networks are: they're nothing if not flexible. All sorts of vehicles can ride on those lanes, and the lanes themselves can alter their geometries if need be. Moving a shaft two meters to the right is trivially simple because one only needs to move modular elements piecemeal; the lifts can handle straight angles and sharp corners easily enough. But when there's lots of empty space, such as in a ship hastily converted to host 300 parallel esoteric scientific experiments that might win the war, bending the rails is another option, and something the engineers can easily afford to do because undoing it is equally affordable later on.
Timo Saloniemi
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Wow! when was this from? I don't remember this at allThey have shown us what we would consider 'normal' turbolift shafts inside Discovery though...
They have shown us what we would consider 'normal' turbolift shafts inside Discovery though...
That's how it should have looked like on DIS as well!
If you want an outside shot of an elevetar going sideways - VOY already did that. But that fun-hous was very obviously not well thought out, but just somebody thinking "wouldn't it be cool if...?".
I do agree, it wasn't that well thought out. Again, I could live with it as long as they don't show it to extremes (which I seriously doubt). Though I don't remember seeing a turbolift going sideways on VOY (though I never followed it that much after the beginning of the 5th season).
Truth be told on VOY, there was one pic we saw of a turbolift shaft in "Year of Hell Part I" and it was re-used footage from the TNG episode "Disaster."
Truth be told on VOY, there was one pic we saw of a turbolift shaft in "Year of Hell Part I" and it was re-used footage from the TNG episode "Disaster."
Wow! a lot of new stuff from the latest episode. So much to go over, cause they showed a ton of interesting interior stuff.
For starters, the ready room is definitely rear facing, likely in the upper rear windows above the bridge. The star warp streaks are moving directly backward in the episode.
There appears to be a transporter room in the center of one of the Saucer Ball decks. The shape is pretty much identical, even the details and wall angles are the same.
A full deckplan showing saucer layout and secondary hull. The Secondary hull is exactly as i imagined, a grid of angled intersecting corridors. Saucer seems to be changed from the last plan they showed, the corridors seem more evenly spaced and less packed together which is good.
Here's a few deck plans in the corridor screens. A little too blurry to make out, but good to know they're there. We can tell though that there appears to just be normal turbolifts and no sign of the funhouse.
And finally engineering section layout, or at least its rough shape. Looks to be about the same as what we saw on the Glenn.
For starters, the ready room is definitely rear facing, likely in the upper rear windows above the bridge. The star warp streaks are moving directly backward in the episode.
There appears to be a transporter room in the center of one of the Saucer Ball decks. The shape is pretty much identical, even the details and wall angles are the same.
A full deckplan showing saucer layout and secondary hull. The Secondary hull is exactly as i imagined, a grid of angled intersecting corridors. Saucer seems to be changed from the last plan they showed, the corridors seem more evenly spaced and less packed together which is good.
Here's a few deck plans in the corridor screens. A little too blurry to make out, but good to know they're there. We can tell though that there appears to just be normal turbolifts and no sign of the funhouse.
And finally engineering section layout, or at least its rough shape. Looks to be about the same as what we saw on the Glenn.
Heh that's season 1's engineering design, it's missing the new hallway next to the chamber.
One problem though, that's the Shenzhou's transporter design, not the Discovery design. Discovery's transporter isn't a ring of pads. I guess the Discovery could have a heavy duty transporter.
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yeah very true. They probably just pasted the floor plan of the shenzhou's directly in there without changing any of the details. Still though, i think we can assume thats what its meant to be. They clearly have the whole ship at least roughly planned out, and that makes me so happy to see. I hope they release HD images of the deck plans we see on the screens.
One of the designers was quoted at con in I think 2017, that they had mapped out most of the ship for the writers to use. But he did admit that sometimes not everything will fit, and they didn't need to stick to it.
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Here's a few deck plans in the corridor screens. A little too blurry to make out, but good to know they're there. We can tell though that there appears to just be normal turbolifts and no sign of the funhouse.
I said this once and I'll say it again: THIS IS HOW YOU DO PIPES ON A STARSHIP, J.J. ABRAMS!!!
Here's a few deck plans in the corridor screens. A little too blurry to make out, but good to know they're there. We can tell though that there appears to just be normal turbolifts and no sign of the funhouse.
I said this once and I'll say it again: THIS IS HOW YOU DO PIPES ON A STARSHIP, J.J. ABRAMS!!!
In the PS3 game set on the Kelvin Enterprise, you do have to sneak around parts of the ship inside the turboshafts. Turns out they're all ball like mechanisms that spin at high speed through tubes, only righting themselves at the last second, with their own internal gravity compensators.
Yeah I've seen that. I really like that idea. I mean, ST Beyond did sort of counter that, but still a cool idea. I would've taken that over what DSC showed.
I never played the game. I wonder if anyone has a screenshot on it so I can further grip what you're talking about.
I could see in certain sections that it could be necessary to have something like a Funhouse thing for turbolifts, but not throughout the whole ship. My guess is that the production FX team were showing off. Again, it's not as bad as the brewery that was used in ST09 and STID.
I could see in certain sections that it could be necessary to have something like a Funhouse thing for turbolifts, but not throughout the whole ship. My guess is that the production FX team were showing off. Again, it's not as bad as the brewery that was used in ST09 and STID.
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