• SARGEx117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Well that’s what happens when you put fads and pop culture references in TV shows. They can become pretty dated pretty quick.

    I mean, imagine if one of the shows were to praise someone like, oh idk Elon musk… Oh wait…

    My headcannon is that like many things over the years, sports will come and go, and this is the new “retro thing that become ironically popular, then became legitimately popular again”

    And the engineers just happened to discover an unused space that perfectly fit those dimensions for the lanes, and DEFINITELY didn’t make the lanes the very first consideration and design the ship around them…

      • SARGEx117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        In star trek discovery, one of the characters puts him on the level of Wright brothers and Zefram Cochrane.

        • jaywalker@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          I can imagine Elon paying for this. I’m not saying he did, but I can imagine it.

        • Morgoon@startrek.websiteEnglish
          151·
          1 year ago

          I think it was actually clever ::: spoiler the character who references Musk is a mirror universe evil doppelganger. Him admiring Musk is one of several clues that he’s evil. :::

          • SARGEx117@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            1 year ago

            Full disclosure, I’ve not seen discovery. Didn’t want to pay for paramount+ and now that I know more about the general plot, I’m not interested. Same thing for most of the new shows.

            Love me some lower decks though.

          • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            You could read it as clever, if you want to be really kind. However, I don’t think anywhere near that much thought went into Discovery.

  • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.inkEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    It’s the most critical part of the ship-Kirk uses it for showing off “diplomatic meetings”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      I’m picturing Data showing McCoy around the Enterprise-D in Encounter at Farpoint-

      “Where’s your bowling alley, boy?”

      “We do not have a bowling alley here, sir. But we have a holodeck that can simulate a bowling al-”

      “I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT MIXED-UP MOLECULES! Where’s the bowling alley? This is the Enterprise, boy!”

      • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.inkEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        With the size of the Enterprise-D I’m astonished someone didn’t stick at least a mini bowling alley in there somewhere

        • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
          29·
          1 year ago

          A third of the ship is all Holodecks*, so if you want to bowl you could just load a program up.

          *Source: computed by taking the number of “holodeck is trying to kill everybody” episodes and dividing it by the total number of series episodes.

  • shutz@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I bet it didn’t survive the refit. Actually, I suspect that’s where the “Rec Deck” from TMP ended up, though I have no proof (were the post-refit blueprints ever published?)

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is there even a space for the “Rec Deck” to fit in a Constitution class? I don’t think it would fit where the blueprints show the bowling alley because the “Rec Deck” is at least two decks tall. The Constitution class is surprisingly small; I was a TNG guy and the Galaxy class ships are comically gigantic.

      Would be a question I would pose to a Youtuber by the name of We Travel By Night, who has tackled things like “The turbolift shafts on the exterior model don’t change from movie to movie, but the turbolift doors gradually move apart as they update the set.” or “the ship’s neck is so narrow that there’s no room for the turbolift and the engine plumbing to pass by each other, so how does that even work?”