Star Trek: 10 MORE Behind The Scenes Decisions We Can't Forgive

Star Trek: Discovery's third season finale, "That Hope is You, Part 2", cleverly based its centerpiece action sequence around previously mundane Star Trek hardware, showing Michael and Book battling evil goons on turbolifts as they sped through Discovery's lower decks. The sequence was full of big action, big emotion, and big turboshafts.

Due to either a weird call by the production designers or by VFX house Pixomondo, the inside of Discovery in "That Hope is You, Part 2" is depicted as being a massive open space, one that simply could not fit into the ship as we know her.

It is possible the 32nd century retrofit Starfleet gave Disco in the episode "Scavengers" equipped the ship with TARDIS-like "bigger on the inside" technology; which was actually a thing in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Future Tense". However, the more likely explanation is that the producers simply used dramatic license to amp up the scale and thus the excitement of the sequence.

Unfortunately, the scale was amped up a little too much and Discovery's massive, "turbolift funhouse" threw many viewers out of the episode (especially those of us who write about starships for a living), making them wonder where exactly this open expanse is located within the generally slender starship?

This isn't the first time starship interiors have been fudged for the sake of drama; the turboshaft escape sequence in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier notoriously depicted the Enterprise-A as being an unfathomable 78 decks tall and J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot film famously inflated the size of the Enterprise for dramatic effect.

But either this VFX error or misguided attempt to increase the stakes by increasing Discovery's size is an extreme example, straining Star Trek: Discovery's already strained relationship with audience suspension of disbelief.