Forgive my flagrant thread necromancy, but I saw STXI again today and I remembered this thread (now closed) that commented:
I remembered that scene, then committed the venial sin of downloading a bootleg of the movie so I could get some screencaps. Confirming that, yes, the ship DOES jettison multiple warp cores, shown here firing through an ejection hatch above the ceiling.
Scotty's console in engineering has a little graphic that appears to depict the LOCATION of those warp cores, in some kind of central housing directly between and slightly forward of the nacelle pylons, feeding into something that might be an energizer or an intermix chamber to fuel the engines.
I got the impression that these cores are situated directly above Scotty's head the moment he pushes the button, so this is probably the "engineering deck" that contains the warp cores, engineering workspaces, fuel, and probably a fair amount of coolant (which, I assume, is what the turbine section is for).
The very first EXTERIOR shot shows the warp cores rising from a spot near the base of the neck, just forward of the nacelle pylons. There's a long bluish thingy flying off that is probably one of the ejection hatches, followed by a series of warp cores (about a dozen of them, one after another) flying into the black hole. This tells me the new Enterpirse' engine room is in a spot close to and slightly forward of the nacelle pylons, above the main shuttlebay; in point of fact, the shuttlebay itself seems to be integrated with engineering anyway, for reasons which should be pretty obvious when one considers the ship's engineers should usually have first dibs on any cargo and parts being brought aboard.
I'm in the process of working on a VERY preliminary deckplan based on this... might have it up by the end of the week. One thing I can say for sure though: the engineering sets are NOT as large as reported in recent complaints. Cavernous and busy, yes, but nothing that couldn't fit into a space the size of a typical gymnasium. I'm beginning to think the entire engineering section is divided up into a series of very large compartments that are normally left totally unmanned except in case of emergency or repair, and that even the engine room is a place where only Scotty and a handful of extremely ballsy grease-monkeys dare to tread.
I remembered that scene, then committed the venial sin of downloading a bootleg of the movie so I could get some screencaps. Confirming that, yes, the ship DOES jettison multiple warp cores, shown here firing through an ejection hatch above the ceiling.
Scotty's console in engineering has a little graphic that appears to depict the LOCATION of those warp cores, in some kind of central housing directly between and slightly forward of the nacelle pylons, feeding into something that might be an energizer or an intermix chamber to fuel the engines.
I got the impression that these cores are situated directly above Scotty's head the moment he pushes the button, so this is probably the "engineering deck" that contains the warp cores, engineering workspaces, fuel, and probably a fair amount of coolant (which, I assume, is what the turbine section is for).
The very first EXTERIOR shot shows the warp cores rising from a spot near the base of the neck, just forward of the nacelle pylons. There's a long bluish thingy flying off that is probably one of the ejection hatches, followed by a series of warp cores (about a dozen of them, one after another) flying into the black hole. This tells me the new Enterpirse' engine room is in a spot close to and slightly forward of the nacelle pylons, above the main shuttlebay; in point of fact, the shuttlebay itself seems to be integrated with engineering anyway, for reasons which should be pretty obvious when one considers the ship's engineers should usually have first dibs on any cargo and parts being brought aboard.
I'm in the process of working on a VERY preliminary deckplan based on this... might have it up by the end of the week. One thing I can say for sure though: the engineering sets are NOT as large as reported in recent complaints. Cavernous and busy, yes, but nothing that couldn't fit into a space the size of a typical gymnasium. I'm beginning to think the entire engineering section is divided up into a series of very large compartments that are normally left totally unmanned except in case of emergency or repair, and that even the engine room is a place where only Scotty and a handful of extremely ballsy grease-monkeys dare to tread.
