EDIT: If you are wondering why I brought up the turbolifts, look at the ship. The engineering section is in between the nacelles, not attached to the saucer.
California-class ships are weirdly huge. The way people talk about their missions and status , I initially thought they’re meant to be smallish starships, like Intrepid-class, but they’re almost Nebula-class size. Plenty of room inside those pylons for multiple lift shafts.
One thing they rarely touched on is the ship focus. It seemed that each California-class had a focus that was designated by the division strip on the saucer. So since Cerritos had a gold strip, it was Engineering. The
FirstSecond Contact race in season 3 is where we see this in action the best.
i always imagined the turbolifts were also capable of moving sideways, so they could take you to any turbolift entrance
They do, just don’t ask why the ones on DISCO involve a Doctor Who “bigger on the inside” paradox.
Sure puts the complaints about the erroneous deck signage in Trek V into perspective, doesn’t it?
And a galaxy class only has 42. Hmm.
What a dumpster fire. That series is like the last two (okay, maybe just the last one) Star Wars movies.
I take that back. The intro scene (I think intro?) of Pike was good.
I can’t expect anyone is allowed to walk through the nacelle catwalks.
Anyone and everyone were free to walk willy nilly around those low railings and high drops on DS9. If that much is fine for any non-starfleet people, I’m sure those starfleet sorts, who are used to crawling through jefferies tubes, are allowed to walk the nacelle catwalks.
And yes. Turbolifts.
On TNG there’s a wide corridor that links into that circular one.
But well, the ship is supposed to have several levels, isn’t it? IDK what is in that place on the other levels.
Also, shouldn’t engineering be lower than the saucer? And shouldn’t the circular corridor be on the saucer? Maybe the corridor goes “up” and gravity just works differently there.
Look at the ship. Engineering is located between the nacelles, away from the saucer.
Oberth class is the worst offender.
Those nacelle struts are pretty large, that’s not an issue. I have always wondered what the point of the design was, but getting to the secondary isn’t a problem. They aren’t going through the nacelle.
At least theoretically you can walk through the pylons to get to engineering. On the California-class it seemed like you COULD ONLY walk through the nacelles.
Ship Designer: “Here you go, Engineering. That problem of nacelles too far away? Solved.”
Got to protect those military secrets.
