This video has a rendering of the Enterprise D's crew standing in a group on top of the saucer section, to give an intuitive understanding of how ridiculously huge the ship is in comparison.
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Stamets@startrek.website 1 year agoYou’d be stacking people on one another for sure. However the tight quarters then gives creedence to stuff like Cerritos and Voyager not having thick enough walls/doors to dampen sound. Then Enterprise-D is a whole different beast and it makes no sense for the opposite reason. It’s too damn big with not enough crew. You’d have people working in their own section never meeting another soul during their whole day.
But that brings me to something else (because I have severely unmedicated ADHD and I apologize). Picard Season 3 got rapped for having the Titans bridge be really dark all the time. The lighting of the whole ship was way darker. Surprisingly I actually liked that. It felt like they were on a submarine or some small contained vessel, just then against the harshness of what was outside. That submarine quality really should be used in more shows. I know TOS had random people walking around the corridors (like the famous example of a dude who was turning an invisible valve on a wall) but I like those tight spaces.
Oh and to prove the ADHD? The Crossfield class is 900m long. Roughly. I mean she’s 2/3rds nacelle but still.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 year ago
Picard Season 3 got rapped for having the Titans bridge be really dark all the time.
Have these people not seen The Motion Picture?
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speaking of submarines, SNW s1e4 Memento Mori does a great job with the “flying blind” trope. They even use the “depth charge” trick.
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
You even get to hear sonar pings. It was amazing as a submarine movie fan.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here’s some more perspective. The aircraft carrier pictured apparently carries almost 2000 people.
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iyaerP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not even a big carrier either. American supercarriers between the flight crews, the ship crews, the marine contingent and everything else can fit up to SIX THOUSAND people.
There’s no need for anyone on the Cerritos to sleep in the fucking hallways. That’s like “we live on a literal submarine” level of privacy. It’s beyond idiotic.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, I always assumed it was for comedic effect.
iyaerP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The problem is that they want to eat their cake and have it to when it comes to being a comedic show that parodies Trek, but also a serious part of the Trek canon.
Sometimes it works, like with the SNW crossover episode, or the ludicrous gambit to clear the captain’s name when she’s being framed for blowing up Planet Packled. Other times, like with the stupid koala or the people sleeping in the corridors it goes beyond what makes sense in-universe and becomes stupid for an out-of-universe joke.
VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 1 year ago
Yep, the Enterprise has about the volume of an aircraft carrier, but only a fraction of the crew. By modern standards it is downright roomy.
iyaerP@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it also isn’t carrying 100 fighter planes.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Voyager was carrying infinite shuttles, so it’s not that out there
JWBananas@startrek.website 1 year ago
About that…
youtu.be/6Oy3Z2muHz0?si=MtJptmWRc03sl5Qi