It wouldnt need a hatch to close as behind the yacht would be solid hull. Its not like there wold be open corridors suddenly exposed when the yacht detached
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The MSD shows no inner hull that's as strong as the outer one there. The test footage that was made also shows a different type of inner lining that doesn't seem to be the same material as the outer hull.
Remember the Enterprise-D saucer seperation? Prometheus multi-vector assault mode? Enterprise-E Captain's Yacht? Same idea.
The MSD also shows no bathrooms.
now which of those are meant for dangerous combat situations, and which is meant for ceremonial and diplomatic functions in perfect safety?
hulls go around the whole ship (which is why they appear in any cut). bathrooms do not.
When are diplomatic functions with aliens in ST ever safe?
So you have a problem taking stuff from the first season at face value because it's "early", but are fine taking stuff from guys who worked before the first season? The Yacht was an idea abandoned early on, before it even got its shot at being weird.
It's a bit of a shame that the E-D had such a narrow range of auxiliary craft, when supposedly her facilities for housing those were vast. Any modern show returning to the era, or even to the class, could make better use of the opportunities...
In reverse, it's a relief that there weren't even more auxiliary designs aboard the relatively cramped Voyager!
Timo Saloniemi
Timo, the yacht wasn't abandoned, it was simply an idea that the producers and writers never got around to. We never saw the escape pods either, but they're there.
whoever said it can't function? XD
Surely by the time of ST:TUC the Enterprise-A needed a lot of toilets and especially some close to the bridge
Well, the producers and writers did consider using the Yacht for "Samaritan Snare" where Picard makes a very private trip for the first time. And there they made the conscious decision to abandon the whole thing - to not commit a single cent to building the model and shooting the VFX and redecorating the Top Officer Quarters set as the interior. The Yacht died there and then. Or, rather, reverted to never having been born.
Bigger budgets allowed for the escape pods to see action in ST:FC, and a Yacht in ST:INS. But the pods are there on the E-D as per dialogue references, even if the model detail can be interpreted as one wishes. The Yacht isn't.
Because an important mission calls for the craft and doesn't call for the ship?
It's just that it's a bit difficult to invent such a scenario. Deploying the crane part of a mobile crane fatally takes away the mobile part; towed artillery can't be fired if towed, or towed if fired. But how could an auxiliary craft's needs outweigh those of the generally highly capable mothership? We get scant support from the naval world. When a support ship deploys a submersible, the ship may be stuck over the dive site, but isn't compromised; when a ship launches a helicopter or a landing craft, she's even less restrained as the result.
Timo Saloniemi
The Enterprise was fine without it's yacht. Voyager would be fine without the aeroshuttle.
Why does this remind me of a child whose tooth just fell out?
The Enterprise was fine without it's yacht. Voyager would be fine without the aeroshuttle.
Also from that angle the saucer looks like the head of a Tallneck
Well, "similar" in the sense that the model sorta got reused (and eventually CGI'd), but for dissimilar vessels. The original appearance in DS9 was of a vast ship; Neelix' CGI craft was always small and only loosely based on the DS9 one; but the original original, from Buck Rogers, had been just as small as the Baxial.
Once again, we meet a supposed "freighter" that would be hard pressed to haul even a single pig, let alone a meaningful helping of pork; how can these skippers make a living when they can't fit any cargo aboard? But once again, we see external clamps that may be vital to the freight-hauling mission (which the vessels perform about as often as the supposed "reporter" Tintin wrote for papers). It's a pretty good combination, although one must wonder what the Baxial would look like with any sort of a load attached...
Timo Saloniemi
Once again, we meet a supposed "freighter" that would be hard pressed to haul even a single pig, let alone a meaningful helping of pork; how can these skippers make a living when they can't fit any cargo aboard? But once again, we see external clamps that may be vital to the freight-hauling mission (which the vessels perform about as often as the supposed "reporter" Tintin wrote for papers). It's a pretty good combination, although one must wonder what the Baxial would look like with any sort of a load attached...
Timo Saloniemi
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