Is JJ obsessed with Tubes, Piping and Warehouses? (SPOILERS BABY)

[Brent]

Well, just got back from seeing the movie and I am overwhelmed at the amount of scenes that have tubes and pipes and large warehouses in them.

You've got the warehouse on delta vega, you got parts of the ships (kelvin and enterprise) that look like a large warehouse. I think most of this movie had to be filmed in a warehouse lol.

Then you have pipes and tubing everywhere. The ships, Kelvin and Enterprise, seem to be mostly pipes and tubes! The bridge is nice, the hallways are nice, but it seems just down below all that the rest is tubing lol.

Vats, also lots of vats with who knows what kind of liquid inside. Uhura was even working on consoles around these vats, that whole setup was weird.

Yeah, lots and lots of tubes in the future.

 

[Mr. B]

Too bad they didn't do a little more product placement in the bar scenes, they could have afforded a proper engineering set.

 

[Nick Ryder]

Which does kinda make sense in a real world setting. Everytime they had to fix something in trek before they had to rip off wall panels and such to get at it. And the whole water cooled system is amazing, always DID wonder where the Enterprise got its drinking water and cleaning water and reactor cooling water from. Now we know

 

[Saga]

yeah, i didn't care for all the tubes and pipes on the Kelvin or the Enterprise. just seemed very out of place.

 

[ParticleMan]

I thought that I wouldn't like the industrial engineering feel before seeing the film, but once I saw it on screen, I kind of dug it. As NickRyder said, it actually does make a lot more sense than ripping off panels or wriggling around in Jeffries tubes. And I really liked the idea of multiple warp cores. One thing Starfleet ships always seemed to lack was a healthy sense of redundancy...

 

[Cakes488]

It didn't bother me...I mean I could of done without the whole Scotty going down the drain scene....but I think it came close to what a ship's "boiler room" would look like...or rather could look like.

 

[Mr. B]

And the whole water cooled system is amazing, always DID wonder where the Enterprise got its drinking water and cleaning water and reactor cooling water from. Now we know

I found that part to be rather absurd... made a lot more sense in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

 

[Brent]

I didn't mind Scotty in the water pipes. What really felt odd was the scene where Robau goes down the turbolift from the bridge, and ends up in a warehouse with pipes everywhere, that just seemed odd.

 

[shapeshifter]

Yep, lots of tubes, pipes and corridors. Just like in TOS.

 

[Gertch]

When Kirk and old Spock entered the base I said to LOST friend - "They found another hatch."

 

[tauntme]

They didn't need to pretty up the ship's core because guess what, they don't need to pretty them up.

 

[seekertwo]

Answer: JJ shot most of those scenes at a Budweiser plant.....because JJ LOVES his beer....

 

[Brent]

Yep, lots of tubes, pipes and corridors. Just like in TOS.

It did? Where?

 

[kitsune]

Which does kinda make sense in a real world setting. Everytime they had to fix something in trek before they had to rip off wall panels and such to get at it. And the whole water cooled system is amazing, always DID wonder where the Enterprise got its drinking water and cleaning water and reactor cooling water from. Now we know

I think the scene involving the Enterprise's plumbing was the silliest part of the film.

 

[Major Chord]

I didn't mind Scotty in the water pipes. What really felt odd was the scene where Robau goes down the turbolift from the bridge, and ends up in a warehouse with pipes everywhere, that just seemed odd.

I thought that was a bit odd too...mainly because the shuttle bay/engineering section is above the bridge...

I kinda liked the industrial look though. We never saw "engineering" per say in TOS, so that could easily be what it looked like in the "prime" universe.

 

[Dr. M'benga]

Maybe I can buy the exposed piping but - c'mon - it looked like they went on location to a current day factory!

 

[Brent]

Maybe I can buy the exposed piping but - c'mon - it looked like they went on location to a current day factory!

Obviously they did

 

[Amaris]

Yep, lots of tubes, pipes and corridors. Just like in TOS.

It did? Where?

J.

 

[Brent]

lol, that's a lot less than what we saw in the movie, it seemed like every deck below the bridge was a factory with piping

 

[Bisz]

I like the movie but didn't care for the pipes and vats and the new engineering deck. The Scotty pipe scene could also have been omitted and the movie would have been better for it.