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[Timo]

Could we assume that much of the internal partitioning of the ship / engineering section has been removed for some reason (to reduce mass for spore drive experiments ?) and that those turbolift rails would normally wind their way between floors, bulkheads, rooms etc. ?

Or then there were no internal partitions to begin with. Fanfic has traditionally had these triangle-hulled ships as shuttlecarriers, with plenty of unobstructed interior room in these exceptionally shaped secondary hulls. Perhaps Starfleet took one of those and crammed it full of harebrained experiments in its quest to win Burnham's War? Since only the Spore Drive ever panned out, the other experiments were eventually removed, leaving the ship with most of her original interior caverns, only now filled with infra originally designed to accommodate stuff that no longer is there...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[XCV330]

or the static Genesis Cave waterfall.

Gravity was really low inside regula 1. The waterfall was moving... just really slowly

Manhours alone does not quality make. I know the production design on TMP was tortured and expensive but I think the final product there all those years ago beats Discovery by leagues and bounds. Discovery oozes too much of a "look at muh detail" more-is-more mentality. Cool in a wacky Lady Gaga fashion choice sense of the word, not something that looks the least bit plausible.

This reply lacks the de rigeur "heh..millenials" and "get off my lawn" and something about damned hipsters and Tame Impala. The TOS bridge is covered ceiling to knee level in screens, blinkenlights and indecipherable gizmos. As cool as it was the TMP/WOK bridge is even more jarring now with all the late 70's and 90's graphics moving constantly with the occasionally borrowed Franz Joseoph drawing. I like them all, but I don't think Discovery's bridge is any more complicated. Less claustrophobic, perhaps. I did find the JJ-prize bridge to be very bright. Good for filming but might have been annoying to work on.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Gravity was really low inside regula 1. The waterfall was moving... just really slowly

I always thought it was moving. I recall seeing (or reading) something about the FX in TWOK back in the 80s. The waterfall was described as actually being a rotating dyed cotton ball. Am I mis-remembering this?

 

[XCV330]

I always thought it was moving. I recall seeing (or reading) something about the FX in TWOK back in the 80s. The waterfall was described as actually being a rotating dyed cotton ball. Am I mis-remembering this?

i need to rewatch but but as I recall there was a little bit of glimmer on the matte painting. As a kid watching the movie in he theater who was fond of caves I just thought Genesis cave was the best thing ever. But I do remember the waterfall didnt seem to fall much.

 

[DaveyNY]

Yeppers...

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(thought the large waterfall off in the far distance at the end, doesn't appear to have been animated)

 

[F. King Daniel]

I talked to the Disco designers about the JJ Bridge, they were not fans of it for the eye level blinding lighting. I also mentioned to them how I hated that fake standing transparent displays with people poking them with stylus', they totally agreed.

Discovery has loads of those
Except of course, theirs are real holographic screens and not ones added in post.

 

[The Wormhole]

I talked to the Disco designers about the JJ Bridge, they were not fans of it for the eye level blinding lighting.

I'm quite sure Justin Lin didn't care for them either, based on the fact most of the bridge lights were turned off in Beyond.

 

[Fandango831]

I've stated this before, I still think that that is supposed to be an "artistic" view of the inside of Discovery with all the inner walls and floors removed.

I just figured it was in the spine of the neck section of Discovery (I mean look how beefy it is with those 3 layers). My thinking this is because usually it's used to show a transition to the shuttlebay from the bridge so from the primary hull to the secondary. Also considering that the neck doesn't have a need for decks in the spinal part considering that no one would work or live there specifically so it's probably mostly hollow structure, plasma conduits, piping, and the turbolift system between hull sections.

 

[Fandango831]

I dunno it looks vast and empty. Also I know that Pike ready room is located in the neck according to the designers.

The ship isn't tiny so scale doesn't bug me with how cavernous some of those turbolift shots are. I've spent enough time around Nimitz class carriers at North Island that the perception of scale doesn't feel off (Also consider that the Discovery has considerably more internal volume on a per scale basis to a modern carrier). As for Pike's ready room being in the neck that also isn't per say an issue. As I said the neck appears to be divided into three sections (2 outer deck layers that sandwich a bulky and more than likely hollow spinal section).

 

[The Wormhole]

I also mentioned that there is no washroom on the shuttles. Again they said the discussion they had regarding it was that the transporter could be used to beam the waste right out of your body. LOL. Seriously though.

That theory has been circulating since at least TNG's day. Breaking Bad even did a joke about it.

 

[The Wormhole]

So let’s all pretend it didn’t happen.

Way ahead of you on that one.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Yeah, we've seen a toilet generally conveniently hidden in wall panels like in Star Trek V, so my belief is there's a button to push to bring the toilet out in the shuttles/ready room/brig/etc. They may even have opaque force fields (and sound dampening) for when there's someone else in the shuttle.

As for the DiscoLifts, perhaps we're seeing some sort of Turbolift Control Room, which has a scale model of all the turbolift activity for review and study.

 

[DEWLine]

I wonder if anyone in the graphic design team has had a chance to play with Gaia Sky yet.

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/institutes/ari/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/

https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev

 

[F. King Daniel]

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As for the DiscoLifts, perhaps we're seeing some sort of Turbolift Control Room, which has a scale model of all the turbolift activity for review and study.

There were worker bees buzzing around inside there, ruling out it being a scale model or artistic rendering without decks.

And they've used it twice now and shown the view from the corridor below the Funhouse at least as many times, so it's not going anywhere.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I couldn't give two shits how "realistic" the DiscoLifts may or may not be. They look cool, it's a throwaway scene that's really not important to the plot, so I say let them have a bit of fun.

I've stated this before, I still think that that is supposed to be an "artistic" view of the inside of Discovery with all the inner walls and floors removed.

I'm OK with that.

 

[Cyrus]

When I say "Retro" I don't mean it looks exactly like the original. It has homage to the original though the use of colour and shapes. No matter how well built the original sets, today the design would be a joke to modern audiences.

It didn't look like a joke on ENT "In a Mirror Darkly" episode. I would say it looked damn good with modern lighting. That said I am OK with a Discovery level update, and I am sure I will love it (just like I loved the exterior changes)

 

[WarpFactorZ]

It didn't look like a joke on ENT "In a Mirror Darkly" episode. I would say it looked damn good with modern lighting. That said I am OK with a Discovery level update, and I am sure I will love it (just like I loved the exterior changes)

It looked good to the average lifelong Trek fan. It likely didn't look good to the average viewer, who would have seen it and said "Oh, hoaky 60s sci-fi". Discovery doesn't have to hook the former audience, but they do the latter.

Oh, and PS: I thought the bridge looked hoaky in IaMD, and I am a lifelong Trek fan. It was quaint and fun in "Relics", and fit with the theme of the show --- outdated things. Not so in ENT, I felt.

 

[Tim Thomason]

There were worker bees buzzing around inside there, ruling out it being a scale model or artistic rendering without decks.

Maybe these worker bees are actually bee-sized!

 

[Agony_Boothb]

It looked good to the average lifelong Trek fan. It likely didn't look good to the average viewer, who would have seen it and said "Oh, hoaky 60s sci-fi". Discovery doesn't have to hook the former audience, but they do the latter.

Oh, and PS: I thought the bridge looked hoaky in IaMD, and I am a lifelong Trek fan. It was quaint and fun in "Relics", and fit with the theme of the show --- outdated things. Not so in ENT, I felt.

I thought the sets in IaMD looked terrible, the Constitution class also looked really dated next to the NX class and even the Andorian and Vulcan ships

 

[F. King Daniel]

I thought the Defiant looked really cool (especially with the new lighting, which brought out the glow of the jelly bean buttons). But it only works if you accept Trek as a Star Wars-esque elseworld because there's no way those controls make sense.

They were clever to portray the clunky 60's look as being ultra-advanced technology-meets-art.