I like these much better!
Yeah, they don't look any more cramped than any other ship corridors we've seen. There certainly would be more walking space if the walls didn't curve at the floor, but don't get any sense it would be a problem for people. It's like interior design 101 lol... light colors and mirrors to make a small space seem bigger. The "mirrors" in this case are the polished floors.
The most similar but different corridors...from TMP:
Panoramas of Enterprise interior on official site
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It was budget-mandated.
You can look at some of Jefferies' sketches for the Phase II bridge over at Trekcore. One of the things he specifies for the bridge is "Molded consoles full circular sweep. No angles."
With bigger budgets comes great opportunity.
Yeah, but trevanian disagrees with the 'no angles'-approach, so Jefferies must clearly have been wrong.
It's nice that you go to the trouble of making it about me. How swell.
The jello mold is boring to me, but it could just be a matter of having no budget ceiling on phase 2 made everybody go crazy (Cole and the others all mention that they had no firm budget.)
Also, Jeffries was working on LITTLE HOUSE, a show I've never gotten through once, so maybe Landon contaminated him.
No surprise there... Abrams is well-known for putting references into his works from other works.
For instance, there's a trailer shot where you can clearly see a building with an advertisement/logo from the company behind the monster from Cloverfield.
I, personally, find this sort of "in-joke" to be unprofessional and overly self-indulgent. But it's not uncommon... and there's nobody WORSE at this than George Lucas (2001 space pod in Watto's junkyard? E.T. voting in the senate? Sheesh...)
I like these much better!
Yeah, they don't look any more cramped than any other ship corridors we've seen. There certainly would be more walking space if the walls didn't curve at the floor, but don't get any sense it would be a problem for people. It's like interior design 101 lol... light colors and mirrors to make a small space seem bigger. The "mirrors" in this case are the polished floors.
The most similar but different corridors...from TMP:
Well, the TMP corridors are clearly designed with a lot of kewl angles and light coming from things that serve no real purpose. The JJPrise corridors look nicely functional compared to them.
Which would only make sense. Even the TOS Enterprise corridors had access panels that allowed crew to get to conduits and circuitry as well as store and hold things. The TOS corridors might have looked more primitive in a lot of ways, but they felt more practical.
One thin I'll say about the TMP corridors is, though the detailing is good, the layout and lighting always made them feel claustrophobic and cramped. At least the new ones avoid that issue.
Hey, I liked the TOS design, especially that of The Cage.
THANK YOU J.J. I love this!!! very 2001ish, ( ONE of my top ten favs!
Now let me get this straight: Enterprise, designed in the mid-'60s: "Designs from 1969 are too old-fashioned for today's audience."
2001: A Space Odyssey, designed in the mid-'60s: "The pinnacle of science fiction design"; the template for everything to come, applauded for its influence on JJTrek, a film which 'must' bring the Luddites who liked the design from the mid-'60s kicking and screaming into 2009.
O ... kay.
Rii
Rear Admiral
I've always thought the corridors in TOS were too spacious for a starship. It seems like you could walk five abreast in there.
They need to be able to move camera dollies around in there.
Rii
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I'd figured that was at least part of the reason. I don't expect starships to emulate the compartment systems of modern naval vessels, but in terms of available space in which to move about I think the TMP corridors linked above strike a good balance. Better lighting and warmer colours would likely alleviate any feelings of confinement.
I see nothing wrong with the new movie supposedly borrowing from 2001 design elements. IIRC both 2001 and Star Trek (TOS) technological design elements were based on what the Rand corporation was projecting at the time. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but they have always had a shared lineage in that respect
I've always thought the corridors in TOS were too spacious for a starship. It seems like you could walk five abreast in there.
Maybe so. To a point. But I always saw it as the design aesthetic of the time. "We don't have to make our new starships feel like shiny, metallic sardine cans with LCARS interfaces."
I've always thought the corridors in TOS were too spacious for a starship. It seems like you could walk five abreast in there.
Maybe so. To a point. But I always saw it as the design aesthetic of the time. "We don't have to make our new starships feel like shiny, metallic sardine cans with LCARS interfaces."
If they have the ability, bigger spaces are always a plus when the crew is confined to the innards of a machine for a long time. Plus bigger corridors would probably help in moving equipment and cargo, since transporting to different areas of the ship seemed to be a big no-no in TOS.
I've always thought the corridors in TOS were too spacious for a starship. It seems like you could walk five abreast in there.
Maybe so. To a point. But I always saw it as the design aesthetic of the time. "We don't have to make our new starships feel like shiny, metallic sardine cans with LCARS interfaces."
If they have the ability, bigger spaces are always a plus when the crew is confined to the innards of a machine for a long time. Plus bigger corridors would probably help in moving equipment and cargo, since transporting to different areas of the ship seemed to be a big no-no in TOS.
Exactly. And considering all the times we saw people hauling containers, boxes and even antigravs through the TOS corridors and constantly working on conduits and circuits having such wide, well-lit hallways could only have helped in regards to repairs and maintainance.
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