Semi OT: Spaceship Cockpits?

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Taera:
But what about futuristic massive spaceships, manned with hundreds of people and equipped with the most precise sensors and computers?

There would still be windows simply because people have a inner need to look out onto (into) wide open spaces. It goes a long way to curbing claustiphobia. Besides, looking at the stars has always had a soothing effect on the souls of mankind.

Cheers!

[geoschmo]

Reasons for windows aside, I see very few pictures that have any extensive cockpit-style windows. Only the Urkatal among the stock sets have what even looks anything like that to me. Some have nothing that could even be obviously picked as a window at all. Most have some tiny things that perhaps are portals, but it's difficult to say for sure at the scale which I assume these pictures to represent. Which shipsets are you using?

[Ragnarok-X]

of course fighters or other small vehicles NEED cockpits or else the human would not feel very good inside and therefor wouldnt be concentrated at combat thats the nature of us humans

[PvK]

How about the retardo-big window-like things all over the outside of the ST:TNG Enterprise in all sorts of improbable directions - are they for something besides to make it look more like a fake computer animation and to indicate that sensible people should watch something else?

BTW:

http://www.guaibaOnline.hpg.ig.com.b...rprise-a15.jpg

PvK

[Ed Kolis]

Foolish photoshopper! Everyone knows the Enterprise was built in an ORBITAL SHIPYARD!

And you're right, I never noticed that... why didn't they ever show an interior shot of any of the "floor windows" on the lower half of the primary hull...

edit: though it would have been one impressive shot

[ June 01, 2004, 19:29: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

[Jack Simth]

They use artifical gravity, and most transportation between distant locales is done by the mysterious turbolift - what makes you think those windows are at odd angles to the rooms on the other side?

[geoschmo]

Maybe those were the quarters for the crewmembers from low and zero gravity planets. I could imagine they might have portals that are like the windows on glass bottom boats. You can't walk on them, but they'd have a railing that you could stand around and look down and out of the ship.

Voyager had an episode once that partly revolved around one crewmember that worked in the bowels of the ship. He was a real low-abition type guy that prefered to stay with his current duties because he had a nice view. It was one of those down facing windows. It wasn't really on the floor though. It was kind of at a steep down angle at the base of the wall where you could look out it as you walked by.