The largest container ships in the world can carry about 24000 twenty foot shipping containers. People actually rent container apartments that take up about two of those (and those have their own showers), giving you about 30m² or 322ft². That’s 12000 people who can live individually on a container ship. Add a duplicate of their home space for office workspace, and you’ve got 6000 people living there.
Of course you need corridors between those containers, so take off 10ft for every two containers, reducing the capacity to about 4500 people + offices. Subtract a holodeck here and there, and you can easily house 3000 people on that ship.
These things are like floating cities. Their scale is nearly impossible to comprehend if you haven’t seen one up close. Fitting a few hundred people in really isn’t going to be your biggest issue, especially if you have hallway sleeping like Lower Decks shows or bunk beds/shared bedrooms and showers like other shows have.
The Gerald R. Ford is smaller than the container ship depicted here, but houses 4300 people. I wouldn’t be surprised if oxygen supply were a bigger issue than floor space when it comes to cramming in a thousand people into the Enterprise.
Actually the thing they often get wrong in depictions of life support failure is that the ship would get too hot. The vacuum of space insulates the ship.
The largest container ships in the world can carry about 24000 twenty foot shipping containers. People actually rent container apartments that take up about two of those (and those have their own showers), giving you about 30m² or 322ft². That’s 12000 people who can live individually on a container ship. Add a duplicate of their home space for office workspace, and you’ve got 6000 people living there.
Of course you need corridors between those containers, so take off 10ft for every two containers, reducing the capacity to about 4500 people + offices. Subtract a holodeck here and there, and you can easily house 3000 people on that ship.
These things are like floating cities. Their scale is nearly impossible to comprehend if you haven’t seen one up close. Fitting a few hundred people in really isn’t going to be your biggest issue, especially if you have hallway sleeping like Lower Decks shows or bunk beds/shared bedrooms and showers like other shows have.
The Gerald R. Ford is smaller than the container ship depicted here, but houses 4300 people. I wouldn’t be surprised if oxygen supply were a bigger issue than floor space when it comes to cramming in a thousand people into the Enterprise.
Oxygen is an issue, but heat generation is also an issue.
Actually the thing they often get wrong in depictions of life support failure is that the ship would get too hot. The vacuum of space insulates the ship.
But people mainly occupy the saucer portion right? Like they don’t live in the engines.
Looking at OPs pic, that saucer is very small compared to the container ship.