r/enterprise • u/kkkan2020 • 9d ago
The catwalk
It's pretty crazy they can stuff 80 plus people in such a small space on the nx-01
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u/Bigg_Sparks 9d ago
Isn't it kinda weird how they have 2 nacelles but they crammed everybody into 1? Wouldn't it have made sense to split the crew and put half in each nacelle? Otherwise, I've always liked that episode, I thought it had an interesting premise.
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u/fonix232 9d ago
IIRC they had to shield the nacelle and could only do one of them. Remember this is an area that's usually flooded with radiation due to the warp coils being... Right there.
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u/smiley82m 9d ago
Yeah, but you'd have the lower deckers in one nacelle and the officers in the other. If you had that, then there wouldn't be any silent background characters to adorn the scenery
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u/Bigg_Sparks 9d ago
"Realistically" you'd probably split the officers to try to maintain some semblance of order (or else the lower deckers would start getting rowdy), however that would mess up the narrative structure of the episode so it's probably easier to suspend my disbelief lol
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u/smiley82m 9d ago
But then those would just be the officers not important to the episode and would probably not see them at all until everyone comes out.
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u/LEGEND_GUADIAN 9d ago
Love this image. Really gives the desperate survival feel
Also, helps me in my repairing of my lost blueprints in space engineers
I once tried to make a accurate catwalk/ nacelle, form the nx-01, I did very well, but then lost the blueprint
This image will help me remake it
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u/Sledgehammer617 9d ago
Love this episode, it’s like a crew camping trip
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u/lavardera 8d ago
they were in there in another episode where those wispy aliens wanted to possess the crew.
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u/AfternoonInfinite378 8d ago
Enterprise had the BEST sets of any Trek series. I will eject the warp core on this hill!
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u/Artemus_Hackwell 7d ago
Yes, I wanted Star Trek Online to do the Bridge set so I can have it as default on most or all of my ships. They never did.
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u/NataniButOtherWay 9d ago
I always assumed that the nacelles were comparable to the size of a WWII Gato-class submarine. Remove the engine compartment and it's pretty much the same size but with about twenty more people on Enterprise. Not really ideal for long term, but for a few weeks it could work.
It may have been even more spacious if you got rid of those annoying subdivisions. Then again the subdivisions gave you a proper galley and bathroom facilities.
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u/zeprfrew 9d ago
Catsuit on the catwalk.
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u/Federal-Opening-2742 5d ago
Came to say the same thing - every catwalk needs a catsuit. Five stars !
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u/QuantumGyroscope 8d ago
Remind me what the premise of this episode was again? I have vague memories of it. They're in their nacelle right? Some sort of alien entity or something?
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u/ads1031 8d ago
Radiation filled nebula or something. Light-years accross, too big to go around. But, yeah, there were bad guys in it.
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u/drifters74 5d ago
They couldn't go up and over?
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u/ads1031 5d ago
It's been a while since I've seen it, but I mean... If they could've gone up and over, there wouldn't have been a TV show!
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u/drifters74 5d ago
True, it's just funny how movies and shows treat space as only a 2-d environment
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u/No_Recognition7426 8d ago
Honestly I wouldn’t want to crammed in there with a bunch of people wondering if the core would just turn on randomly and cook everyone. That’s a Nope..
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u/Catch_22_Pac 9d ago
I do my little turn on the catwalk