A little short for a starship, isn't he?
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Yeah I'm not seeing how there's several dozen people moving, working, and living in that.
A container ship's crew is 20-30 people, and that whole thing is mostly containers. I bet they'd fit.
Oh you.
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.
Oxygen is an issue, but heat generation is also an issue.
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.
They sleep in hallways....
After watching discovery I assume it's all turbolift shafts.
Don't forget the Jeffreys tubes
The amount of empty space in Discovery was just weird.
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.
Maybe if they narrowed that hallway a little, they could all have their own quarters.
In Strange New Worlds everyone above Ensign apparently has their own studio apartment.
In TNG and Voyager they all did.
Speaking of which, something funny I noticed about Discovery recently is that Burnham and Tilly continue to be roommates even after
spoiler
Burnham gets her commander rank reinstatedWho wouldn't want to room with Tilly though?
Me, but for all the wrong reasons
Here's some more perspective. The aircraft carrier pictured apparently carries almost 2000 people.
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.
Yup, I always assumed it was for comedic effect.
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.
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.
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.
And it also isn't carrying 100 fighter planes.
Voyager was carrying infinite shuttles, so it's not that out there
Prodigy also showed us that they can replicate a new shuttle in like 30 seconds.
The only canon animated shows are Lower Decks and the original Animated Series.
About that...
https://youtu.be/6Oy3Z2muHz0?si=MtJptmWRc03sl5Qi
Yeah, we were talking about the Connie. Galaxy class is like 20x the volume of a CVN.
Speaking of submarines, SNW s1e4 Memento Mori does a great job with the "flying blind" trope. They even use the "depth charge" trick.
I thought in NG 1000 people lived on it?
Iiving in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, it sounds quite spacious to me. Perspective is wild.