Was the Raffi with the holoemitter one of Rios' former holocrew repurposed? The original Raffi is overlooking the scene but not obviously controlling the image with any remote control device. Possibly the most foolish place to keep a safety toggle on a simluated reality is knee-height near alcohol.
Or...and just hear me out on this...you manufacture different sized DOTs based upon ship size. I know it's crazy talk.
No more crazier than the size of the Titan being 560m despite having identical features to the TMP Enterprise. Scale up or down the DOT. Doesn't matter.
All approximately the same size in the scene. Yep. Model A can have a phaser torch while Model B has the searchlight.
A thought occurred to me this morning. The next episode is called "The Bounty". We know we're meeting La Forge in this one. We know he's stationed at the Fleet Museum. What do you bet we're gonna see the gang borrow a certain 100+-year-old Bird-of-Prey to reach Daystrom Station undetected?
There’s no more Treaty of Algeron. I would think they could get a cloaking device pretty much anywhere rather than stealing a 100 year old ship from a museum.