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

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (42 children)

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

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (19 children)

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 28 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

[–] VindictiveJudge@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And it also isn't carrying 100 fighter planes.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager was carrying infinite shuttles, so it's not that out there

[–] iyaerP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prodigy also showed us that they can replicate a new shuttle in like 30 seconds.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The only canon animated shows are Lower Decks and the original Animated Series.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] iyaerP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we were talking about the Connie. Galaxy class is like 20x the volume of a CVN.

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