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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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You spelled “blueprint for the future “ wrong.
Well, I spell knife with an "n".You spelled “blueprint for the future “ wrong.
Just a fan answer to the interior of the TOS Enterprise not matching the exterior. I don't think it was ever official.
If I understand correctly the reason why Franz Jospeh did this in schematics, it's a consequence of him aligning the Enterprise's turboshaft along the centerline of the saucer. However, the entrance to the turbolift on the bridge is offset to a side on the back of deck 1.
So, if you're drawing schematics for how this might work, you either have to show an abrupt L-shaped turn in the turboshaft when it approaches deck 1, or offset the bridge at an angle, if you go with the turboshaft being aligned along the centerline of the saucer.
Honestly, the bigger criticism I've always heard about the bridge is whether or not it should be on top of the saucer, given that by putting it there you make it a very big target. If you wanted the most protection for command-and-control, arguably it should be embedded in the middle of the saucer. Although, that makes it impossible to just switch out bridges like a module and do an easy upgrade.
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Everyone spells knife with an N. See? I did it again.
Don't tell them about the Shuttlecraft.
Voyager's shuttlecraft alone would put an MIT scientist in a padded room.
Is it really that big of a target in proportion to the rest of the ship? To me, it seems like trying to hit the bridge is equivalent to shooting someone in the head. Cops (for example) are trained to aim for the bigger targets of chest & torso.
Trying to shoot someone in the head… with a weapon of mass-destruction aided by pinpoint accurate computer assistance.
Starfleet saucer sections are shaped like a giant bullseye normally. I know what you’re saying, but I do think they are very vulnerable.
Rule of cool
Yeah, they can rotate sickbay, crew quarters, rec rooms etc. all they like, as long as they keep the bridge and engineering aligned with the axis of symmetry. Just because the bridge dome has a cylinder behind it, doesn't mean it's the turbolift.
I'm torn on the idea of putting the bridge on the top of the ship. On the one hand, it's clearly not the place you want a bridge to be if you're getting into a fight, which we've seen demonstrated several times now. On the other hand, Battlestar Galactica is pretty much the only sci-fi show I can think of that actually put the ship's command centre deep inside the hull, so Star Trek isn't doing anything weird. And if a fight gets to the point where enemies are slicing up the bridge, that battle was pretty much already lost.
…We all spell knife with an “n”
I know right? If only Starfleet had access to some sort of sophisticated teleportation technology…
The Doylist explanation is that Gene Roddenberry insisted on the bridge being on top “to give the ship a sense of scale”. Which frankly I always thought was the job of the windows. When Andrew Probert first designed the Enterprise-D he had the bridge as part of a deeply submerged and secure “command complex” roughly where the battle bridge ended up being, with its own independent transporter room and shuttlebay access. This was, I thought, both reasonable in-universe and a clever production workaround to explain why everyone spent most of their time visiting the same few sets when the starship was supposed to be vast and contain thousand of rooms and facilities. But Roddenberry made him move it back to the top of the saucer…
I squint for my head canon and say that the exterior nub is rotated 36 degrees!
Roddenberry made the correct choice in regards to the bridge of the D.
I mean, it's not about the Federation though. It's a one off colonial experiment to see if the three powers can work together. It wasn't.
We don't see the rest of the Federation so how can we conclude that they are miserable?
We can surmise that they are areas that the Federation simply doesn’t give a shit about.
I surmised that from TOS too. And TWOK.
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