The Claustrophobic Feel of Enterprise
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I would have preferred they went to a world war two submarine level of crampedness. I can understand that this would have imposed difficulties on the actual recording on some scenes (especially corridor dialog scenes), but it would have improved the "feel" of the ship, at least for me.
Have it be that the majority of the ships' interior is devoted to machinery and storage spaces, and the working and living spaces are fitted in where they could.
Definitely could have made the bridge smaller. Sickbay too, although I generally like the basic layout of sickbay, just suck it in about 20%.
Some spaces made more sense from this point of view, Archer office (tight with a low ceiling) was about right, engineering was good, and the crew mess was okay.
One of the worst offenders was the bathroom in Archers' quarters, it was quite spacious, the shower as huge.
I know the crew had room mates, but with the exception of a few officers, there should have been bunk-rooms.
Don't feel too bad for them. They did have a gym and a mess hall after all and somewhere to watch movies.
I'd have liked more exposed pipes and conduits, personally. It still seemed too neat and perfect to me, for the first true Starship.
Actually I thought that was quite a nice touch.
It's supposed to be the first warp 5 starship ever, going for the first time into interstellar depths no human has penetrated before. So the claustrophobic feel gives an appropriate air of "primitiveness" to it, compared to ships of later centuries.
It's supposed to be the first warp 5 starship ever, going for the first time into interstellar depths no human has penetrated before. So the claustrophobic feel gives an appropriate air of "primitiveness" to it, compared to ships of later centuries.
I liked it, but honestly, the ship could have been more cramped, especially in the corridors.
ETA: I really loved engineering, with the big honking warp core taking up the whole room, and the monitors crammed in what little available space there was.
ETA: I really loved engineering, with the big honking warp core taking up the whole room, and the monitors crammed in what little available space there was.
The internal aesthetics was something that I really liked from ENT, the sets looked hugely practical and very much it setting for the time frame and level of technology, with the submarine feel being a logical approach.
The aesthetics I felt was more of an anchor for the movie verse than TOS since it never reflected how the Starship Class Enterprise appeared. Ever since The Wrath of Khan the submarine motif has been the norm until JJ Abrams finally brightened the sets a lot... for the better IMO.
Why would it have to have exposed pipes and conduits to be the first true starship?
To make it look like they've been rewriting things and MacGyvering solutions to mechanical breakdowns as they went.
Enterprise could've maintained the tech lingo from TOS like assembly, circuits, and fuses instead of using TNG lingo such as conduits, and a warp core.
Maintenance and serviceability in and experimental spaceship.
Dumbwaiter for heavy objects.
Sounds sloppy. Humans had been out in space for nearly a century. They weren't making it up as they went along by the time the NX-01 came along.
I always thought that this lift was a homage to "Lost In Space"
They had a similar one on the Jupiter II
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