The correct shape of the Galaxy-class

[SonicRanger]

^^^

Sets that don't fit in the saucer are a long-standing tradition since TMP -- the rec deck set wouldn't fit in the TMP Enterprise given the saucer under-cut.

 

[FalTorPan]

^^^

Sets that don't fit in the saucer are a long-standing tradition since TMP -- the rec deck set wouldn't fit in the TMP Enterprise given the saucer under-cut.

Since TOS, actually, unless the bridge is rotated at a 36-degree angle... (I hope I didn't just open a Pandora's box.)

 

[blssdwlf]

^^^

Sets that don't fit in the saucer are a long-standing tradition since TMP -- the rec deck set wouldn't fit in the TMP Enterprise given the saucer under-cut.

Since TOS, actually, unless the bridge is rotated at a 36-degree angle... (I hope I didn't just open a Pandora's box.)

The TOS bridge is easier to fudge since it has no "absolute" correlating interior to exterior points like windows. But the TMP rec deck and Ten Forward with the windows, that's alot harder to work with

 

[FalTorPan]

^^^

Sets that don't fit in the saucer are a long-standing tradition since TMP -- the rec deck set wouldn't fit in the TMP Enterprise given the saucer under-cut.

Since TOS, actually, unless the bridge is rotated at a 36-degree angle... (I hope I didn't just open a Pandora's box.)

The TOS bridge is easier to fudge since it has no "absolute" correlating interior to exterior points like windows. But the TMP rec deck and Ten Forward with the windows, that's alot harder to work with

True.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Not to mention the TUC dining room, and the Enterprise-E's ready room, which would look like a boxy lump on the side of the bridge dome.

 

[starfox]

The TOS bridge is easier to fudge since it has no "absolute" correlating interior to exterior points like windows.

I guess this image doesn't count as canon since it's from The Cage, but the turbolift still doesn't line up properly.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Well as you all may already know, I clamp my hands over my eyes whenever the front wall of Ten Forward is shown, so no shape problems with the 6 footer there.

 

[Forbin]

^^^

Sets that don't fit in the saucer are a long-standing tradition since TMP -- the rec deck set wouldn't fit in the TMP Enterprise given the saucer under-cut.

Since TOS, actually, unless the bridge is rotated at a 36-degree angle... (I hope I didn't just open a Pandora's box.)

The villagers with flaming torches should be crossing your drawbridge shortly...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I guess this image doesn't count as canon since it's from The Cage, but the turbolift still doesn't line up properly.

And if you rotated the bridge counter-clockwise so it faced the front, it would be even worse.

 

[blssdwlf]

Yeah, plus it was re-purposed for an aired episode (The Menagerie) as an alien mental projection/recreation (the Talosian transmission). I'd say the Talosians can create a good illusion but need more work on their camera-matching skills

The TOS bridge is easier to fudge since it has no "absolute" correlating interior to exterior points like windows.

I guess this image doesn't count as canon since it's from The Cage, but the turbolift still doesn't line up properly.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Worst scale-changing offender is, of course, Voyager and it's magic shuttlebay. Normally, Delta Flyer barely fits through the door and takes up the whole bay... but in "Drive", we see it parked next to a much wider ship in an enourmous hangar with plenty of room to spare.

 

[SonicRanger]

Worst scale-changing offender is, of course, Voyager and it's magic shuttlebay. Normally, Delta Flyer barely fits through the door and takes up the whole bay... but in "Drive", we see it parked next to a much wider ship in an enourmous hangar with plenty of room to spare.

I figure that, like the Ent-D, Voyager had cargo bays with large external hatches.

Remember: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s5/5x05/disaster220.jpg

 

[starfox]

I figure that, like the Ent-D, Voyager had cargo bays with large external hatches.

Remember: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s5/5x05/disaster220.jpg

I don't recall ever seeing any vertical, flat surfaces on the Galaxy-class hull.

 

[SonicRanger]

I figure that, like the Ent-D, Voyager had cargo bays with large external hatches.

Remember: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s5/5x05/disaster220.jpg

I don't recall ever seeing any vertical, flat surfaces on the Galaxy-class hull.

I figure the best place for this is the undercut of the engineering hull.

Or if you accept that artificial gravity can make any direction "down," then there is also the bottom of the saucer, which was supposed to have cargo doors too.

We know that the Ent-refit had such doors: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmphd/tmphd0347.jpg

 

[Mytran]

I figure that, like the Ent-D, Voyager had cargo bays with large external hatches.

Remember: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s5/5x05/disaster220.jpg

I don't recall ever seeing any vertical, flat surfaces on the Galaxy-class hull.

I figure the best place for this is the undercut of the engineering hull.

Agreed - all you'd need is an outer door (sloped) and an inner door (flat vertical). After all, it worked for the shuttlebays...

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I don't recall ever seeing any vertical, flat surfaces on the Galaxy-class hull.

I figure the best place for this is the undercut of the engineering hull.

Agreed - all you'd need is an outer door (sloped) and an inner door (flat vertical). After all, it worked for the shuttlebays...

Problematically, the shuttlebays always depicted the "inner" door to open directly into space from a flat vertical surface on the outside of the ship. Realistically there should have been a sort of "driveway" of sorts just outside of those doors, a little airlock space between the inner and outer hatches (since the door as shown is just barely large enough for a shuttle to fit through, it actually makes more sense that the shuttle would set down on a landing pad OUTSIDE the door and then taxi into the bay on antigravs or something).

 

[Mytran]

Naturally, the reason why we never saw the housing of the outer door is due to visual distortions from the forcefield

I guess the reason why shuttlebay doors are so tight in the 24th century is because of more advanced tractor beams than the 23rd