The conference room got a torpedo through it in Such Sweet Sorrow which revealed that despite the circular window shapes it's actually a fair distance away from the rim of the saucer.
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Seems short.
It kind of shows, along with those turbolift funhouses (one of which appears on the Enterprise in "Q&A") how loosely they care about this stuff. Because of course it's intended to be the leading 3 windows.
A good attitude to have.
It's a terrible attitude to have, because it keeps pulling the viewers out of the story!
for you maybe i for one don't really care and while the disco turbolift fun ride is indeed stupid it's inconsequential and easy to ignore
Yup.
Positives:
Negatives: Costs a lot more money. Even people who can ignore it think that it's stupid. Everyone else is taken out of the story. Inconsequential.
Negatives: Costs a lot more money. Even people who can ignore it think that it's stupid. Everyone else is taken out of the story. Inconsequential.
Positives : art people having fun and being imaginative.
But, even back in the day, (circa 1989) the 1701 supposedly had 78+ decks...
(If it's on the screen, its canon - right?
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They would've had more fun if they'd thrown a dragon or something in there as well.
Minus one, meaning me.
Either I don't get so immersed in the story that I forget that it's make believe, or it's just not important enough for me to bother caring. Not sure which, but hey.
But, even back in the day, (cireca 1989) the 1701 supposedly had 78+ decks...
(If it's on the screen, its canon - right?
That's never bothered me. Not a whit. Maybe they labeled decks in some kind of alien numerical system. Whatever.
Hey if it doesn't bother you then it doesn't bother you!
It's stupid and shows careless thinking.
Why?
Because it would've given them even more opportunity to stretch their imaginations. I mean you could take all limitations away entirely and have the turbolifts travel through a dimension of pure thought, where reality is determined by the mind and anything could be real.
Or it could've been a boring old lift shaft full of lights and the artists could've focused their creative efforts on something that didn't yank viewers out of the episode instead.
Yeah, it happens all the time.
If 90's trek has taught me anything, its that none of this really matters, even to the writers. The Enterprise-e had 26 decks until it didn't, voyager had only had 38 torpedoes until it didn't and endless supply of shuttles and the delta flyer was too big to fit inside the ship given its interior dimensions and so on. The things you accuse new trek of doing have been with the franchise a long time. Ultimately story and set pieces matter more than adhering to a fans desire for factual consistency in a fictional universe.
This is part of writing. Even Tolkien had a misstep with eye color in "The Hobbit" which his son corrected him on. It happens to the best of writers.
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