Turbolift mazes inside empty starships! LOL!!!

[Nerys Myk]

They've been dust binned.

 

[Dar70]

It was completely stupid and there is absolutely zero chance of anyone explaining it away rationally.

 

[Tosk]

It was completely stupid and there is absolutely zero chance of anyone explaining it away rationally.

The turbolift shafts are lined with holo-projectors that make it look as though you're in a cavernous space.

Oh damn, you said rationally. I retract my statement!

 

[Therin of Andor]

You thought it looked cool? Huh. I thought it looked ridiculously stupid.



That's not how the scenes were presented.

It's how it looked to me.

 

[Dar70]

The turbolift shafts are lined with holo-projectors that make it look as though you're in a cavernous space.

Oh damn, you said rationally. I retract my statement!

I thought of that idea before as well. But of course they didn't use them back then. So i thought maybe they used a projection screen like the digital wall a lot of film productions use today. The problem is like you I had to ask......WHY??? WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT???

Sorry my friends. It can't be explained away.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Since they are in the future maybe they used the technology that was used by the ship Archer and crew found during Enterprise which was bigger on the inside.

What if the D has a turbolift roller coaster?

 

[FredH]

For the 32nd-century refit, I have no problem with them having bigger-on-the-inside tech, and indeed I wish they’d just come out and say it. But I’ve no explanation for when they did it in the 23rd…

EDIT: I mean, I guess you could suggest they had started the mission abruptly and thus hadn’t gotten around to filling up the spaceframe. But this still requires you to assume that all the interior sets of the ship are really in these International-Space-Station-like modules held within the overall spaceframe. Integrity fields and other Trek-BS-tech means you could do that, I guess — it just feels weird.

 

[Tosk]

It also conjures a weird mental image of all the rooms only being attached along the hull. Like if you busted open the back wall of your closet you could fall into a cavernous space.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It also conjures a weird mental image of all the rooms only being attached along the hull. Like if you busted open the back wall of your closet you could fall into a cavernous space.

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[David cgc]

It also conjures a weird mental image of all the rooms only being attached along the hull. Like if you busted open the back wall of your closet you could fall into a cavernous space.

It’s possible. Real-world ships can be built that way, and we saw an example of what it might look like in the BSG episode “The Ties That Bind,” where the spaces between compartments were just narrow voids full of pipes and conduits, and you could easily fall straight through to the bottom of the pressure hull.

That doesn’t really fit with what we see of Star Trek ships, with their narrow shapes, tightly packed rooms, and finished Jefferies Tubes giving access to all the arteries and veins running throughout the ship, and even if it did, the Discovery is all thin planes, maybe a couple decks thick at most outside of some relatively narrow central areas around the neck, and you’d still expect even a turbolift track going through an empty space available for future expansion to be more space-conscious, with straight lines and tight corners.

 

[drt]

finished Jefferies Tubes giving access to all the arteries and veins running throughout the ship

Honestly, the Jeffries tubes network is also pretty stupid. The simple short crawlspace in TOS were not that bad, as they obviously were access to primary power and control junctions/nodes, but it got out of hand in the later shows.

Starship architect #1: "So we're going to have a parallel network of corridors and ladders throughout the ship for doing engineer things. But get this, it will only be three feet high so the engineers will have to crawl around make repairs in the most unergonomic manner possible."
Starship architect #2: "Genius!"
Bedraggled Starfleet enginner: "Uh guys, why waste all that space for something not used 95% of the time and just have all of that engineering stuff accessible from the regular corridors?"