A little short for a starship, isn’t he?

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m not seeing how there’s several dozen people moving, working, and living in that.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A container ship’s crew is 20-30 people, and that whole thing is mostly containers. I bet they’d fit.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        But people mainly occupy the saucer portion right? Like they don’t live in the engines.

        Looking at OPs pic, that saucer is very small compared to the container ship.

        • JWBananas@startrek.website
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          1 year ago

          Actually the thing they often get wrong in depictions of life support failure is that the ship would get too hot. The vacuum of space insulates the ship.

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        AS much as I enjoy some aspects of Lower Decks, that was one of the most phenomenally stupid decisions that they could possibly have made.

        The crew sizes for Federation starships are TINY compared to the actual size of the ships. SNW giving every crew member their own studio apartment is something that reflects the ludicrous amount of empty space that a Federation starship has availalbe to it.

        If you ever look at the deck plans, there’s just a crazy amount of space that’s unused.

    • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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      You’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.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Here’s some more perspective. The aircraft carrier pictured apparently carries almost 2000 people.

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          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. The Cali class are MASSIVE. There’s no need for anyone to be living in the hallways like that.

            • iyaerP@lemmy.world
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              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.

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                1 year ago

                It might seem like that at first glance, but every Star Trek show has had episodes more absurd than even the silliest Lower Decks one.

        • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website
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          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.

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        Picard Season 3 got rapped for having the Titans bridge be really dark all the time.

        Have these people not seen The Motion Picture? The bridge was so dark in that movie, it doesn’t even seem like they’re on the Enterprise. At least the Titan is a different ship, AND you still get to see the Enterprise with its bright lighting in the same show.

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      If we check this image, use the 947’ total size, we can estimate the rest of the dimensions. That would put the deck heigh at about 8’. The saucer widest deck lengths at around 450’. Definitely cramped but doable. There’s only about 100-150 crew on this version as well. It’s essentially a weirdly shaped cruise ship and nearly the size of our world’s largest.