The Tempest is state of the art...

I always thought the SR1 did a pretty good job of conveying the feel of a bit of a cramped interior while still allowing for all the encessary gameplay. But it was the right size and all of it was designed for functionality. Of course, it still has that ridiculous flight of stairs and a few other issues but I figured those were mostly technical restriction with the game. I did like that within the lore it was a spartan functional military vessel.

The SR2 of course was a pleasure boat. Two lounges? A captain's cabin that takes an entire deck? Half of which is a fish tank? Please!

As for Star Trek, at least those spacious ships also look like that from the outside (se the Enterprise D, what a tub ).

All that said, I do like the Tempest and I would agree, the only real issue with the ship is the pathfinder quarters which should have been maybe a quarter of their current size. In general, open space is a bit too big (e.g. the area behind the bridge, where the airlock and Peebee's escape pod is, you could park another Nomad there). But otherwise, I think the layout works pretty well and I didn't feel like there was a lot of waste going on there. And though it's lore unfriendly, the Tempest does get major points for the beautiful views of space that it allows through all it's windows. It is a bit ridiculous to literally build a glass ship but hey, the visuals are too beautiful to give them crap for this one.

EDIT: As for the showers, maybe it's just post-industrial style. Possibly they got them designed by some hipster artist from Brooklyn.

I know but that still doesn't make sense as the Tempest was made at the same time or before the SR2 and even the SR2, the most advanced warship of all time doesn't have that material and rather needs shutters. So whichever way you look at it in 2185, windows are structural weaknesses.

But as I said, I cn forgive this dues to the visuals, it's fine.

Pretty sure she was up and about for months since she was taken out of cryo to replace someone who died in the uprising.

Remember that the tempest is over 600 years

It's also not a war/ stealth ship, so I that makes it a bit easier to look past too.