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Crosspost for those [email protected], and probably the extent of my memory of Lebowski references...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tea, Earl Grey, splash of Kahlua, hot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The bar's over there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's to both having full-fledged instances dedicated to a very specific interest

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

We believe in the Federation Mr. Lebowski.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Replicator: Another White Russian, double

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do people put rugs over carpet?

I always thought it was weird that most of the D is carpet. Very late 70s in theory as there are an abundance of carpets, but early 80s in execution as the carpets are not shag.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know what's more comfortable to land on in the event of turbulence or attack?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I see it sometimes. It sort of works if the first layer of carpet is thin, otherwise it just gets lumpy and won't stay flat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The indoors aesthetics of sci-fi spaceships are really a topic that has not been studied enough. I loved it when Mass Effect series went full hard into captain's quarters customisation and I was like "ooh! aah!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've found that I really enjoy it in sci-fi when ships are designed to be comfortable. In TNG, the Enterprise is like one gigantic carpeted lounge.

I've gotten a little bored of the whole spartan, exposed metal, tubes, and access panels aesthetic. If humans get to the point that we're building starships for people to live on, we would probably try make them comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Expanse series went into a fair bit of detail on the "form follows function" aspect of spaceship aesthetics, but it was a lot more near-future than Trek.

In most cases, The Expanse postulates that the most important aspect of spaceship design is cleanliness and the ability to protect the air filters and purification systems. In this case, I would assume that carpets are likely going to cause more of a headache than comfort, but who knows. Also, they'd probably want something that would not interfere with magnetic boots when the ship is in zero-g.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cleanliness is an argument, although it still doesn't excuse the terrible lighting some shows tend to have. You absolutely do not want your ship to have dark corners everywhere; that just increases the likelihood of accidents for no good reason. You want uniform, diffuse lighting as much an possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would hope. Sort of military ship vs cruise ship in terms of decor, I guess. But with far bigger quarters hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a really good distinction, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's precisely what they were going for. They really hammer home that they're not a warship - their mission is exploration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like both the clean, comfortable, luxury of the Enterprise or an Imperial Battle Cruiser, but at the same time I also love dirty, rugged, lived-in, utilitarian designed ships like Firefly or Farscape. In reality, I think there would be both. The rich people would have the former, while the not so rich would have the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

... you mean Enterprise?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It would really tie the room together