Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[fireproof78]

"I don't want anyone to fly off in to space."
And all I think is "What happened to Georgia?"

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[cooleddie74]

Even with 430 crewmembers aboard the TOS Enterprise often had sparsely populated or empty corridors. I think it's just a trope of Star Trek that you often have the corridors empty or containing just a handful of people so you can more easily focus on the one or two or more people at the center of the scene.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Why would they all be in the corridors anyway? Don't they have jobs to do?

 

[cooleddie74]

Many fans complain that the corridors aboard these ships should be a lot more crowded. "430 people on a ship with only 23 decks and you see only a handful of them? That doesn't make sense."

 

[Jack Wolfe]

They're either on duty or on the Rec Deck, playing the hot new game "Tribble Skeet".

 

[cooleddie74]

Or using the elusive Starfleet toilets. Shhh. Don't tell anyone where they are.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Or using the elusive Starfleet toilets. Shhh. Don't tell anyone where they are.

I thought the Transporters just beamed the bodily waste directly out of your system while you stood at your duty station?

 

[cooleddie74]

Pee is stored in the balls. Until it's beamed out into the toilet. Or space. Depending on your level of study.

 

[Tuskin38]

And the Enterprise-D is the reverse, with the size of the ship and the size of crew, you would probably see less people in corridors than you do in the show. But empty hallways don’t make for visually interesting television or something.

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[Ray Hardgrit]

Many fans complain that the corridors aboard these ships should be a lot more crowded. "430 people on a ship with only 23 decks and you see only a handful of them? That doesn't make sense."

Oh great, now you've given me numbers I can't help but want to do the maths.

Assuming that a third of those 430 people are asleep at any time, that'd be 287 people awake and doing stuff on 23 decks, or 13 people per deck. Half of them would be working, the other half I guess have time to just wander the hallways making the place look busier.

 

[cooleddie74]

There you go. See? You're making the pedants' lives better. Thanks!

 

[Noname Given]

Many fans complain that the corridors aboard these ships should be a lot more crowded. "430 people on a ship with only 23 decks and you see only a handful of them? That doesn't make sense."

So roughly 20 people per deck...yep pretty crowded.

 

[Harpsichord]

If a sixty plus, old school TOS fan can get into this and recommend his listeners watch it, then they must be doing something right.

What am I, chopped liver?

But, I'm an exception.
I'm 63 and like all the iterations of Trek. ... TOS through SNW.

I'll just add to this to say my Mother was straight-up fangirling about SNW during breakfast this morning and she's older than either of the people above.. but you didn't hear that last part from me

 

[Captain Jollydark]

I'll just add to this to say my Mother was straight-up fangirling about SNW during breakfast this morning and she's older than either of the people above.. but you didn't hear that last part from me

My son very kindly allowed me to fangirl all over that shit today (by way of avoiding anguish over my rights as a human woman being in question again) and this fangirl is 67. He is a good son.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Why would they all be in the corridors anyway? Don't they have jobs to do?

Break time.

 

[The Wormhole]

Why would they all be in the corridors anyway? Don't they have jobs to do?

No slackers where you work?

 

[Donald G]

No slackers where you work?

Evolved humans of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries find emotional fulfillment in their work and, consequently, have no psychological motivation to slack off.

The reason we see empty corridors is because the off-duty personnel who are not sleeping are in their quarters refreshing themselves with recreational sex in accordance with the Great Bird's vision.

 

[cooleddie74]

Only the best 23rd century casting couches for our Constitution-class officers and crew.

 

[The Wormhole]

Evolved humans of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries find emotional fulfillment in their work

No wonder their personalities are so bland.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Only the best 23rd century casting couches for our Constitution-class officers and crew.

Love instructor to Deck 10.