How big was the Enterprise?

[Mytran]

i.e. Was there an unseen main engineering in TOS that we just never saw?

Perhaps we saw it in TAS? The episode calls this room the Engine Core.

Apparently "Neutral Zone Studios" has a TOS Main Engineering set.

That's what they've called it but it's just the same engine room set which went by a variety of names in the TV show. It could be Impulse Engineering, it could be the equivalent of the TMP Engine Room (the one with the big vertical power conduit), it was never clarified onscreen.

Apparently they're asking for donations to help move their studios to Sandusky Ohio.

They moved on 11th November 2024, according to another of their posts.

 

[Tallguy]

Apparently they're asking for donations to help move their studios to Sandusky Ohio.

Roller coasters AND Star Trek? Sign me up!

 

[cooleddie74]

Even TAS had enormous rooms that looked way too big for a 289-meter-long starship. Main Engineering. The holographic Recreation Room.

 

[DSG2k]

i.e. Was there an unseen main engineering in TOS that we just never saw?

At the start of TMP when he's still getting his bearings, Kirk arrives a deck above where the main engineering area is. This, perhaps, is telling, if the TOS control room area and ancillary equipment were above the actual more dangerous core guts. The separated area to the rear past the grate also supports this.

If true, only the new TMP core was thought safe enough for a shirtsleeve environment with direct access and control panels directly alongside. Even then, however, there was a separate area (at least in ST2 and after the area was shot up) that was unsafe.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

If there was why would Scotty spend so much time in not-main engineering?

Have you seen Tucker in "In a Mirror, Darkly"?!?

 

[cooleddie74]

Yep. The delta radiation.

 

[DSG2k]

I used to think only a part of a spaceframe from the original ship remained in the TMP ship. I have come to believe in recent years, in acknowledgement of the close relationship between original and Phase II, and Phase II and TMP, that the TMP and original ship might be substantially the same, with only superficial upgrades but substantial technological improvements. In other words, we saw certain sets in TOS most of which are there in TMP though styled like TMP. And we saw certain sets in TMP most of which are there in TOS though styled like TOS. These just went unseen, as did most of both ships.

This, but harder and more of it.

With only certain exceptions of required rerouting (e.g. what caught Kirk) I figure even the corridors are the same. GNDN stuff and similar previously exposed (added-on?) systems in corridors are now contained neatly behind the new (removable) corridor panels.