That last paragraph is damn genius. I love that explanation and will now go with that idea until the show contradicts it LOL.
Everything we know about USS Discovery's interior
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I had decided similarly from the funhouse shots, plus the reuse of the windowed saucer connecting corridor sets would seem to imply that similar connecting tubes were used interiorly to connect the various pressure modules assembled into the interior spaces.
Although, i suppose Crossfields could have just been "general purpose" ships with big empty secondary hulls capable of being repurposed into a variety of ships, such as shuttlecarriers, hospital ships, colony support ships, long duration science vessels, etc. as needed.
Although, i suppose Crossfields could have just been "general purpose" ships with big empty secondary hulls capable of being repurposed into a variety of ships, such as shuttlecarriers, hospital ships, colony support ships, long duration science vessels, etc. as needed.
so the FYC thing at the paley center has VFX breakdowns for every episode playing on monitors around the exhibit and there's a breakdown of this sequence.
all the footage of the people in the interior is live action footage comped in. and the naked woman is in fact not naked. she's wearing a standard uniform, unzipped with a white undershirt beneath the jacket. definitely looks naked in the final shot, but seeing it broken down like this, it's clear she is in fact clothed after all.
Overlook me if this has been mentioned, but transparent aluminium is real, and exists in nature as corundum—ie, sapphires and rubies. The colours present in those are due to (desirable) impurities. There is a process by which it can be produced synthetically for optics, watches and lasers, and is not a new or very exotic technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corundum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire
Of course, it looks nothing like the molecular structure Scotty offered for sale. And shouldn't be called alumin(i)um, which refers to the metal, when it's alumina, that is, an oxide...
Then again, what Scotty sold didn't look like a metal on that Mac screen, either. Which is for the better, as the very definition of metal involves the opaqueness thing, with all the free electrons tackling poor photons trying to get through. A lattice of some sort made of those molecules Scotty drew is what we need, but calling it aluminium is misleading at best. Although with trade names, that's not a bad thing.
Timo Saloniemi
Then again, what Scotty sold didn't look like a metal on that Mac screen, either. Which is for the better, as the very definition of metal involves the opaqueness thing, with all the free electrons tackling poor photons trying to get through. A lattice of some sort made of those molecules Scotty drew is what we need, but calling it aluminium is misleading at best. Although with trade names, that's not a bad thing.
Timo Saloniemi
I guess that's the intent, although the far windows are far closer to the edges of the module on the ship than the sets allow. In fact, the picture below either has the back wall missing for that shot or the set has as extra windowless "segment"was rewatching "through the valley of shadows" yesterday and i noticed this series of shots, which i thought was pretty conclusively giving us the location of pike's ready room:
If any of that makes sense. It's very early.
i don’t think there are windowless segments, just room on either side of the light strip to the left and right of the set.
isn’t the problem with the set that it’s not curved enough to really be that part of the discovery model?
The weird lenses and floor-level shots prevalent in the final episodes make it (intentionally?) difficult to judge shapes and distances - the "blank segment" illusion here is one result, I think.
Although the corollary is that we can now treat all dimensions and shapes as somewhat arbitrary, as our perception of the DSC geometry is distorted anyway...
Incidentally, the light shining in seems to be coming from too high on, compared to the exterior view where it's basically horizontally from astern. Then again, these eps also give us the briefing room with "windows" that glow red when there is no red light source outside - windows apparently opening into the deep bowels of the Enterprise saucer interior anyway. And the hero ship has blank windows everywhere, in all corridors and cabins and most workspaces. Perhaps window apertures double as lamps, or sometimes serve exclusively as lamps?
Timo Saloniemi
Although the corollary is that we can now treat all dimensions and shapes as somewhat arbitrary, as our perception of the DSC geometry is distorted anyway...
Incidentally, the light shining in seems to be coming from too high on, compared to the exterior view where it's basically horizontally from astern. Then again, these eps also give us the briefing room with "windows" that glow red when there is no red light source outside - windows apparently opening into the deep bowels of the Enterprise saucer interior anyway. And the hero ship has blank windows everywhere, in all corridors and cabins and most workspaces. Perhaps window apertures double as lamps, or sometimes serve exclusively as lamps?
Timo Saloniemi
No one has written in this thread in a while, but I have to say that Pike's ready room is my favorite set on the Discovery. I am interested in a number of interesting questions: Who will end up as the captain of Discovery? How will the set change, if at all, once that is established?
Also, Pike's response to the original one on the Discovery implies that he indeed has a ready room on the Enterprise (presumably unlike Kirk). With Strange New Worlds I expect to see that ready room at some point so it will be interesting if the furniture on Discovery was transferred back during the evacuation since it seemed very particular and personal to Pike.
I also appreciate the interest in schematics and I am hoping that some ambitious, technologically skilled fans (in the age of covid19) are able and willing to come up with their own versions. I coiuld spend hours studying fictional schematics. Plus I wonder would they have influence on the actual set designs via designers appreciating fan art.
I too, find the Discovery's second ready room quite beautiful. And I don't mind that they made some relatively small alterations to the exterior to make it fit together. It means they understand how Trek fans feel about building a consistent fictional world. Production Designer Tamara Deverell said somewhere that this was an opportunity to put her on stamp on the overall design vision of Discovery since she inherited from another designer. I also think that it helps shift the show and the season from the darker previous (mirror) Lorca-fied ship. It just makes a great deal of sense narratively. I am excited to see if they building more existing sets for the Discovery's interior. Perhaps a true engineering room for Commander Reno? Or some of those rooms below the bridge with the rectangular windows. I would like to see new spaces that correspond with an exterior. That would be fun! One of my favorite exterior shoes was the that moved and gave us images of various crew members in their quarters in various states of dress. Besides being a tad bit provocative, it gave us a tangible sense of the everydayness of this interesting world.
Hey glad to see you guys revive the thread! I've been doing quite a bit of pondering on Disco's interior since I last posted here. Even so much as starting a sketch for a cutaway diagram showing various interior spaces. I've truly fallen in love with this ship design (despite the valid criticism people have had) I still greatly admire its uniqueness. And on a similar note, have been working on a full scale construction of the ship in Minecraft with every deck detailed and laid out. I definitely plan to share progress of both of those here, as they are helping me map a workable interior layout for the ship.
Great news! Cannot wait to see your progress. I’ve been hoping and waiting for someone with the skills to create a cutaway. Very excited.
Ya'll, where is Burnham's (and Book's) new qaurters in season 4?? The location and shape of the windows makes it diificult to tell. And you would think given the changes they made in the past, for example to the exterior to match Pike's Ready Room, that they would have this clearly planned out.
Maybe someone with a bit of time can post a few screen shots of the Captain's quarters.
Maybe someone with a bit of time can post a few screen shots of the Captain's quarters.
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