Where are those big windows on the Enterprise model on the set?

[Marc]

There's a lot about Probert's design and original 6-footer that never got utilized in the show. His idea for the saucer edge, the arboretum ceiling, some of the phaser strips, the captain's yacht, and the main shuttlebay*. What was the point of adding the shuttlebay to the design if they only used the ones on the neck? Then there are things that you can't find on the Enterprise model. So the neck has two shuttlebays - what about the cargo bays? Where are they?

*I think the main bay was used twice during the show- Cause and Effect and BOBW Part 2. The interior layout is never seen or known.

Probably came down to budgetary constraints. the Main shuttle bay would have required a huge set which for the amount of use wouldn't have been cost effective.

Add extra smaller shuttlebays to model, build a smaller set (or being able to redress one and money saved.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It really makes you think - why put such a thing on the ship if they could never hope to realize it?

 

[Marc]

It really makes you think - why put such a thing on the ship if they could never hope to realize it?

Sometimes you get luck, other times you have to find away.

The story goes the scenes set in Engineering in Encounter At Farpoint were written to ensure the set got built as Roddenberry had a concern if it wasn't built at the start it would never be.

 

[Robert Comsol]

It really makes you think - why put such a thing on the ship if they could never hope to realize it?

In a certain manner of speaking, Ed Miarecki "realized" a model of the main shuttlebay for "Cause and Effect": http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Main_shuttlebay

The shuttlebays on the VFX model had different sizes. I think part of the strategy may have been that studio stage-wise they knew they were going to have to start with a small shuttlebay but hoped that eventually they would be able to explore the bigger ones, too.

Bob

 

[Maurice]

Oh, they could easily have shown the main shuttlebay had there been any will to do so. That's what matte paintings are for.

 

[Robert Comsol]

Technically speaking they did. The background during the shuttle take-off is the main shuttlebay.

 

[Maurice]

^^^Yeah, if you count one small section of wall as "seeing".

 

[EmperorTiberius]

The big windows cover several decks, I don't see a problem with them. It doesn't have to be one window-one room. Also, each room would probably have its own gravity generator, hence, you could technically adjust the room so that windows are on top or side! Fans think like Enterprise is on Earth with gravity pulling everyone down at 9.8m/s/s...

As for the saucer deflector, I think that it was a good call. Mr. Probert wanted way too many lounges IMO; he said Ent was supposed to be like an ocean liner.

A Starship like that would have double and triple-redundant systems (as is stated in the manual). It only makes sense that there would be a backup for something like deflector dish. I
In fact, I think it's canon that the navigational deflector is called "Main navigational deflector", indicating other(s).

 

[Salinga]

I had a look at the Sternbach blue print, and the dont show the big long windows on the lower part of the saucer either:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-the-next-generation-enterprise-sheet-8.jpg
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/star-trek-the-next-generation-enterprise-sheet-9.jpg

The only way to explain them is pretty much, that they are floor windows where people can walk on and see through.