General Star Trek thread

Has anyone seen the film of this,

Iseen it yesterday. Not great but it had a ship in it in some ways very similar to the Discovery ship design from Star Trek and with a saucer that could separate from the rest of the ship just like the Enterprise D but a lot more simple.

One thing that really bugs me about SNW is the Shuttles. Don't get me wrong I love most of SNW but the shuttles are just massive. You get a great view of the whole inside of one in the latest episode "Charades" I would go as far as to say they are bigger than the Runabouts in DS9 and that is not right.

Oh that's the Disco one from the backdoor episode to getting the Academy show. It has a captains chair so you know Tilly is in charge and isn't just some over excitable child on go to work with your parent day.

In terms of the size issue, yeah they're massive, but to be fair very few shuttles made any sense when you looked at them closely. Aside from the Runabouts (which are technically ships themselves) or the Delta Flyer they were massive open spaces with no though about where the stuff that made them work was. Which to be fair was consistent with the TOS shuttles.

S31 is an Oscar winner cash in which makes it a bit more likely.

My guess would have been that Academy will get a season as it will be cheap thanks to reuse of all the Disco stuff and probably will have no big actors.

But now that the actors look set to follow the writers on strike loads and loads of "possibly/maybe" shows are in danger. All the "momentum" and backroom drive for the spinoff could be well gone by the time it's over.

No I was talking about the 23rd century season when I said "but earlier"

The ship was supposed to be small, about 120m or less than a third the length of Voyager, so the relative size of the shuttle was right but there are light panels (red) on the hull that look like the windows we were used to seeing as well as having smaller windows (green) than usual so it throws off the sense of scale. The smaller widows were probably there so they didn't have to render the crew on the interior in establishing and space action shots.

The Enterprise bigger on the inside thing wasn't too bad. In the real world you can fit 5,000+ people on a ship smaller than Voyager but there might be some logic to the size of the Enterprise. We never really see how big a lot of the technology like impulse reactors or fusion generators is so a lot of the internal volume could be machine spaces plus that extra habitable space can be used to evacuate colonies in the event of natural disaster/hostile alien/anomaly of the week which would involve taking on thousands or tens of thousands more people. It does explain why everyone, bar Worf and Data can get a room with a view too.

Star Trek was always crap with scale. Any maps or cut-through diagrams were done later and were never canon.

The ships should also have been full of rooms with floor windows going by the diagrams.

Exactly. I was just thinking the same thing as in space there is no up or down top or bottom.