Favorite Enterprise interior design?

It actually looks significantly weaker than the battle bridge as we see it in "Encounter at Farpoint"

 

Which is kind of funny, as they were both the same set.

 

In head-canon or in the imagination of the audience, definitely. But in the execution there were some subtle and many not-so-subtle differences. For example, the bridge rails and consoles were rounded, and main engineering had a different floor plan once again.

Regarding main engineering, it seems reasonably clear to me that they attempted a stylized version of TOS engineering, or an amalgamation of it across all three seasons, with some new stuff like the lone graduated cylinder. That lone graduated cylinder is really cool, but I consider the rest of main engineering to represent one of the least successful transitions from live action to animation.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/File:Constitution_class_warp_core,_2269.jpg

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_core

That lone graduated cylinder is now interpreted as part of the warp core, and I can understand how fans want everything that was made from TMP forward to link back up with what came before. It certainly looks like the vertical shafts that dominate the TMP and post TMP engineering set designs, but I consider that a retcon (of the benign sort). In TMP the vertical and horizontal shafts were called the intermix chamber. The term "warp core" was first used canonically in TNG.

Anyhoo, the TAS backgrounds are a mixed bag. But the warp nacelle interior in "One of Our Planets Is Missing" is outstanding.

 

That tube in TAS looks like part of the coolant pipe system, as seen in Star Trek.

 

I loved your avatar that made that connection!

 

I love that you remember it!

 

I went for the Enterprise D interior. Also like the Enterprise E interior.

 

I'm partial to this one:

 

Considering how much Scotty drank. Maybe the cylinder was actually a breathalyzer. He had to blow into it before he could start the warp drive.