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Author: StarValkyrie

Sep 19th 2012 at 9:12:33 AM

I'm not sure about this.  I mean, when its an interior, someone had to design and build it with a particular purpose so 'unnecessarily large' is fairly clearly defined.  But with a ship, its different.

For one, it's different because the ship you have is the ship you have and it might have been built for a completely different purpose (like intergalatic trade/smuggling in the Star Wars example), but that doesn't mean you can swap it for one more suitable prior to each battle.

And that makes it unclear how to define ''unnecessary''.  Like take the Andromeda Ascendant from {{Andromeda}} as an example - the ship is enormous because it once had a crew of hundreds, but at times during the series there are as few as half a dozen crew making the ship ''seem'' hugely out of scale for most of the series but actually it isn't ''unnecessarily'' large, just woefully undermanned.

And third, take the Tardis (also overlaps with BiggerOnTheInside) which is supposedly huge (it 'archives' old rooms and replaces them with newly built ones so while they only use 1 console room at a time, the other 10 are supposedly still hanging around somewhere) but the only room inside the Tardis that we ever see is the console room so while the off-hand remarks about its size serve to enhance its alien-ness, it doesn't actually function as an unnecessarily large space at all.