S03 E13: Why does USS Discovery inside looks like Borg cube?

[Dryson]

I was thinking the same thing. There is no way that turbo lift engineering of the ship would be that volumetric.

I can say that the reason why there were a lot of turbo cars active is because the Regulators were using them to get to various positions of the ship, but otherwise, the turbo lift engineering is much too large.

If the turbo car engineering is the spine of the ship though, that could explain why it is so huge. But still, to dedicate the entire spine to turbo lift engineering is like eating replicated food in the 32nd century.

 

[thribs]

What makes it worse is that you see a MSD of Discovery in that episode which shows the shafts. They’re just a small line around the ship

 

[jackoverfull]

I can say that the reason why there were a lot of turbo cars active is because the Regulators were using them to get to various positions of the ship,

the problem is that even that hardly works, as Osyraa ha turned off life support below deck 5.

 

[F. King Daniel]

What makes it worse is that you see a MSD of Discovery in that episode which shows the shafts. They’re just a small line around the ship

The schematic in the turbolift shows empty space behind the shuttlebay, I assume they intend the entire rear of the secondary hull to be hollow. Doesn't fit with the "deck 5" line though and even with the entire secondary hull open, it's nowhere near big enough.

UPDATE: I'm not pretty sure that big space IS the shuttlebay

 

[NCC-73515]

But overall this is just a problem too, of making everything too-damn-big. The Mirror Universe Empire has a ship with what, 200 decks and a sun in it? In the early-mid 23rd century? Come on.

The background idea was that they captured a Planet Killer and built the palace on top of it.

What makes it worse is that you see a MSD of Discovery in that episode which shows the shafts. They’re just a small line around the ship

It seems they got a new and larger systems hub further aft

 

[alex08060]

It's 31st century tech, they even shown it on an episode on Star Trek Enterprise that everything is bigger inside than outside when they took a look at Danial's ship.

 

[NCC-73515]

If the rest of the ship has normal size, why shrink things in the systems hub?

 

[jackoverfull]

The background idea was that they captured a Planet Killer and built the palace on top of it.

showing that they have no sense of scale.

 

[NCC-73515]

showing that they have no sense of scale.

Wouldn't that fit?

 

[Mike Doyle]

I'm not a fan of the huge size but my main problem is the lifts not being physically attached to anything (same issue with detached nacelles). Just because you can engineer something to float with no connections does not mean it's a good idea. You need redundancy in case you have a power cut (regular occurrence in trek) and the easiest redundancy is a bit of metal holding things together.

The TNG episode "Disaster" would be very different on the Discovery. Picard and the kids are in the turbolift when suddenly the power goes out. Instead of him inspiring the kids to save the day the lift instead plummets several hundred meters before hitting the bottom of the ship and killing them all. Artificial gravity was still active to pull the lift down.

 

[publiusr]

The solution is simple: Disco-Trek ships are all larger than Imperial Star Destroyers

The schematics show not individual decks, but zones with many decks in between, ‘natch

 

[valkyrie013]

Thought of that area behind as a cargo area..
but even that scimatic shows a max 4 decks, and even at 4 meter large decks, thats only 16 meters tall ( 50 feet) maybe 30 meters long.? Its a large area.. but not THAT big. and a Systems Hub?? Huh?

 

[Caeruleus]

The whole concept has no sense. It contradicts by itself in one episode:

Discovery MSD:

Discovery inside:

Borg Cube interior:

 

[thribs]

I should also note that the MSD is from before the refit as it still has the old deflector on it

 

[ITDUDE]

The whole concept has no sense. It contradicts by itself in one episode:

Discovery MSD:

Discovery inside:

Borg Cube interior:

That confirms it! Borg have been assimilated into 32nd Federation

 

[thribs]

How did Owo get into the detached nacelle with the transport jammer running then?

They are not detached when they are at warp

 

[Angry Fanboy]

They are not detached when they are at warp

Are they not?!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The wrecked time pod in ENT's "Future Tense" is bigger on the inside than out, so obviously that's a thing sometime in the future. Maybe it's the same story here.

Meaning: It could have been part of the 32nd-century refit. They could have added some kind of link to another dimension inside the craft, so it literally IS bigger inside.

 

[fireproof78]

The wrecked time pod in ENT's "Future Tense" is bigger on the inside than out, so obviously that's a thing sometime in the future. Maybe it's the same story here.

Yeah, that's my theory. The tech has been presented before so I see no reason to not assume otherwise until it's stated on screen.

 

[thribs]

The wrecked time pod in ENT's "Future Tense" is bigger on the inside than out, so obviously that's a thing sometime in the future. Maybe it's the same story here.

Meaning: It could have been part of the 32nd-century refit. They could have added some kind of link to another dimension inside the craft, so it literally IS bigger inside the ship.

Problem is that they’ve been showing this chasm since season one.