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Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard

Because medical technology in the 25th century is more advanced. Many more wounds and illnesses can be treated in the field or in the comfort of a crewperson's own quarters, and the recuperation time for a typical sickness or injury is much shorter, so far fewer beds are needed.

Current day parallel: there are less than half the number of hospital beds in the US today compared to 1960.

Additionally, the TNG Technical Manual species that the holodecks and shuttlebays can be converted into emergency wards for mass casualty situations, but not normally required.

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Because medical technology in the 25th century is more advanced. Many more wounds and illnesses can be treated in the field or in the comfort of a crewperson's own quarters, and the recuperation time is much shorter, so far fewer beds are needed.

Current day parallel: there are less than half the number of hospital beds in the US today compared to 1960.

Additionally, the TNG Technical Manual species that the holodecks, cargo bays and shuttlebays can be converted into emergency wards for mass casualty situations, but not normally required, seems likely this is still the standard operating procedure on ships like the Titan-A. We saw this procedure once (TNG: Night Terrors) when Crusher was dealing with mass casualties from USS Brattain.

That’s all speculation and not mentioned in the show. And one would think that at least sickbay would be brightly lit, so the doctors could, you know, actually see what they’re doing.
 
That’s all speculation and not mentioned in the show. And one would think that at least sickbay would be brightly lit, so the doctors could, you know, actually see what they’re doing.

The vast majority of medical procedures in the 24th and 25th century seem to involve using handheld tools that can be programmed with tactile buttons or light up screens, injecting people with hyposprays that don't need precise aim, or using the biobed (again, light up screens). Bright lighting would actually be a distraction in most of those circumstances.
 
Now please can someone explain me with logic why sickbay on Enteprise, 150 older ship than Titan-A, is 10 times bigger and even more modern than on Titan-A, ship from 25th century? I really don't understand this.

Enterprise, mid 23rd century

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Titan-A, early 25th cenutry

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One is a semi reboot of TOS, reimagining TOS for the 2020's. The other is a slavish recreation of the 1990's Voyager set.
 
Now please can someone explain me with logic why sickbay on Enteprise, 150 older ship than Titan-A, is 10 times bigger and even more modern than on Titan-A, ship from 25th century? I really don't understand this.

Enterprise, mid 23rd century

Sickbay-Enterprise-Pike.jpg


Titan-A, early 25th cenutry

Sickbay-Titan.jpg
You could also consider that the Enterprise is a front line, jack-of-all-trades, Starship. It's designed to deal with any situation it could come across, while the Titan is stated to pretty much be a dedicated science vessel.

The Enterprise may very well be called into deal with intense medical situations, or deal with combat conditions where a large medical ward is required. While the Titan is never expected to deal with such a situation.
 
I think there was a line in the episode as well about them opening up either an auxiliary cargo bay or science lab to double as an additional medical facility cause of all the patients. The regular set is just the one story lab, while that shot is a CG build and extrapolation of a larger sized facility.
 
Now please can someone explain me with logic why sickbay on Enteprise, 150 older ship than Titan-A, is 10 times bigger and even more modern than on Titan-A, ship from 25th century? I really don't understand this.

Enterprise, mid 23rd century

Sickbay-Enterprise-Pike.jpg


Titan-A, early 25th cenutry

Sickbay-Titan.jpg

Wait until you compare the corridors aboard the RMS Titanic (launched 1912) with those on the HMS Queen Elizabeth (launched 2014)...

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Can someone tell me on this Frontier day poster on the top is that Enterprise from TOS movies or Enterprise from Strange New Worlds?

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Current day parallel: there are less than half the number of hospital beds in the US today compared to 1960.
... and just about every hospital in this country is completely overwhelmed because of a lack of beds and Nurses.
Emergency Rooms are swamped on a daily basis with waiting times often being days for patients to be admitted, because they have no beds available to put them in.
And also because of this, the Nursing Staff are more often than not completely overwhelmed and the dropout rate for Hospital employees has become a crisis.
 
Now please can someone explain me with logic why sickbay on Enteprise, 150 older ship than Titan-A, is 10 times bigger and even more modern than on Titan-A, ship from 25th century? I really don't understand this.

Enterprise, mid 23rd century

Sickbay-Enterprise-Pike.jpg


Titan-A, early 25th cenutry

Sickbay-Titan.jpg
Because the set expenditures for SNW were greater than Picard, based on the budget and intended lifetime of use.

It does look odd at times that the 24th century does look a bit cheap and flimsy now compared to the 23rd.
 
Is that an actual passenger corridor of the ship or is it from the lower crew working areas?
Also, it is quite obvious that that section is not in any way finished.

Isn't it? The HMS Queen Elizabeth's definitely finished corridors look like this:

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Whereas the Titanic's largest crew-only corridor, "Scotland Road", looked like this:

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Am I missing a joke here?

The point you're missing is that a more advanced ship does not automatically equate to a more luxurious ship. The Enterprise was the pride of the mid-23rd century fleet; the Titan-A is a second-rate exploratory vessel made out of leftover parts.
 
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