I'm building the entire Starship Enterprise interior at 1:25 scale
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Thanks, that makes perfect sense now I've read that text with your explanation in mind.
What threw me was the description of a single power line, which I interpreted literally. However, the concept really stuck with me and I've used something similar in my own deck plan designs except that the sunken Bridge faces forward and the power line runs through deck 3
Memory Alpha says Phaser Control is on Deck 5. I don’t know where they get that. The BC phasers shown in TAS line up with what Jefferies shows as Deck 2, so that’s where I put it. The whole BoT debacle in Phaser Control involved ruptured seals and coolant leaks, which infers some kind of feed. That’s where I got it from, and why I put it where I did. Of course, forward phasers could just as well be below, with Phaser Control there, but it seemed to be fortuitous to have those phasers so close to what looks to be a type of fuel hatch at the back of the BC deck. And I have the phasers below controlled and powered through the torpedo room.
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TMoST puts primary phaser control on deck 11, FWIW....
Yeah, I wasn't implying that the Navy way would work in a disk-shaped hull; it works for the Navy because the hulls are long and narrow.
And Franz Joseph followed the text of TMOST very closely, including that point.
Yeah, and that takes us to the problems with that TMoST deck description. Jefferies’ cross section, included in that book, doesn’t have eleven decks in the saucer unless you include the two sensor domes as decks. I have the lower (ventral) phasers controlled from the weapons suite on deck eight (or nine, depending on how you count the decks). It includes the torpedo room and ventral phaser control.
At least on Jefferies’ drawing (and mine) deck 11 is in the interconnecting dorsal (or interhull), and there isn’t a phaser there in TOS. You could arguably say the Phase II redesign had a phaser there though, where TMP puts the torpedo room.
Perhaps that's where the machinery is. I know judging location based on sets is a fool's errand (and as God is my witness, I am that fool!) but no way Spock was wandering around in the BC section when he heard Kirk yelling to fire phasers.
Again, measuring things that should never be measured: I never thought about timing how long the horizontal run of any of the turbolift scenes might be. Not even including The Enterprise Incident.
Well, you and I know where he is filmed, having looked at that scene a hundred times to layout and model that set. He is walking down the curved corridor, turns back and runs to the corridor that leads to engineering. So, if we want to be sticklers, whatever the diameter of that curved corridor set tells us where it can be. That’s one reason why I put a curved corridor in that BC deck. But you’re right- going by that scene and assuming he hasn’t already left that deck, I don’t think the corridor set can fit in that teardrop section. But as I’ve already laboriously described in my answers to Mytran’s questions about the turboshaft, there’s more to this if you want to make all the parts fit. The BC deck CAN have a tighter curved corridor. Then the TAS topside phasers and the BC fuel hatch can come together into some harmonious whole. Is there another way to do it? Certainly. But it isn’t to just say it is on Deck 5 and leave it at that, or pretend a Deck 11 can be in that saucer without some real creative numbering.
And as for “The Enterprise Incident” as you also know, we put accommodations on Deck Two- the Pike quarters set from “The Cage”, updated for TOS, ie, Kirk’s “ready room”.
And for the observers at home sitting slack jawed at their computers wondering how so much can be made out of one set from one scene in one episode… imagine what Mr Trek has in store for him. Tallguy, Todd Guenther, and I got to Deck Three and almost lost our collective minds. May Balok bless our British friend and his Quixotic endeavour. Sometimes windmills yield to mad persistence.
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But wouldn’t this support engineering being in the saucer and the bridge being down half a level…. (Runs for cover)Lets not forget about the Matt Jefferies cutaway in "The Making of Star Trek" which was done while the show was in production.
Hell no… really. It’s all good for a laugh looking back at it. A maniacal, hysterical laugh.
Like I said, you can have phasers on Deck 11 if they are on the tip of the sensor “nipple” where they were on the model. There’s just no way any Phaser Control Room can fit there with it. And no way a curved corridor of any diameter fits if it is on Deck 11 in the interhull.
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The two large, vertical power conduits in Phaser Control appear to send phaser power down into the weapon turret, so, I put phaser control directly above the turret. 
As for the Spock scene running back into the "Engineering" spur, I simply assume he is on another upper deck at that point. 
As for the Spock scene running back into the "Engineering" spur, I simply assume he is on another upper deck at that point. Uber. Das gutten tag. I'm setting my sights on Kirk's chair for my man cave.
"Mr. Sulu. Take us out of orbit. Warp factor 3..... and hurry."
"Mr. Sulu. Take us out of orbit. Warp factor 3..... and hurry."
Got the original prints in '76. Still have them.Lets not forget about the Matt Jefferies cutaway in "The Making of Star Trek" which was done while the show was in production.
Just a few tweaks here and there. I think the Deck 21 is the most obvious - FASA eliminated the bowling alley!
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/star-trek-blueprints.php
https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/uss-enterprise-fasa-15mm-deck-plans.php
And lookee at the size of the flight deck that doesn’t intrude much under the support pylons. Thats the lead I followed.Lets not forget about the Matt Jefferies cutaway in "The Making of Star Trek" which was done while the show was in production.
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Also doesn't have the saucer undercut. Would save some headaches around the saucer and neck interface
Thats actually one area I find myself intrigued with Mr. Trek’s solution. I don’t we’ve seen anything onscreen to suggest what the area of the ship might look like.Also doesn't have the saucer undercut. Would save some headaches around the saucer and neck interface
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