Hallway sets and “actual” size

[Nenya]

Do the corridor sets match the curvature of the actual ship? Take the Enterprise D for example. It seems to me that they curve a little too much for the size of the ship? Do they match up?

 

[Christopher]

Well, naturally if there are several concentric rings of corridors, each one would curve by a different amount. So of course the one existing corridor set is going to be "wrong" for all but one of them at most.

 

[drt]

Also, with the 1701-D, the saucer is elliptical, so you can get different curvature in the same hallway.

 

[Nenya]

Well, naturally if there are several concentric rings of corridors, each one would curve by a different amount. So of course the one existing corridor set is going to be "wrong" for all but one of them at most.

Also, with the 1701-D, the saucer is elliptical, so you can get different curvature in the same hallway.

I guess it just so happens that all the shots we see are in the “narrow” part of the elliptical.

 

[Christopher]

Also, with the 1701-D, the saucer is elliptical, so you can get different curvature in the same hallway.

Then there's Voyager, which inherited the corridor sets from TMP/TNG with the same curvature, despite the hull being more spoon-shaped and elongated. Plus in TNG and VGR, they extended the corridor sets to create a long twisty corridor that didn't correspond well to the shape of either ship. http://pat.suwalski.net/film/st-stages/stage9.php

I guess it just so happens that all the shots we see are in the “narrow” part of the elliptical.

Or we're expected to understand that it's theater and the stage is just a representation of the fictional world we build in our imaginations.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The Constitution-class refit Enterprise--I suppose we can now start calling her Constitution II-class--had two types of corridors: straight ones that presumably ran directly outward from the center of the saucer section, and curved ones that ringed outward from the center and connected the straight corridors. The engineering section probably featured all straight corridors, but there may have been a few that followed the contours of the outer hull.

 

[NCC-73515]

Sickbay and Engineering kinda fit the blueprints. The corridor outside sickbay is perhaps a little too curved, but not much.

 

[Christopher]

Sickbay and Engineering kinda fit the blueprints. The corridor outside sickbay is perhaps a little too curved, but not much.

Or rather, the blueprints were designed to match the pre-existing sets.

Anyway, it occurs to me that you can change apparent depth of field by changing camera lenses, which could not only make a room appear larger or smaller but could change the apparent curvature of a corridor. So while the curvature of the corridor set is always the same, it wouldn't necessarily look that way onscreen.