Checking out the Olympic Class

[LCARSGFX]

This class of ship has been a bit of a mystery since we saw it back in 1994 in the TNG finale.
I have recieved many requests for this on my blog and via PM over at Scifi-Meshes.
This is what I have so far after studying all the photos I could find.

I'm using the height of 125m which seems to be generally accepted. This gives her about 29 to 31 decks, allowing for some uninhabitable decks and the standard 4m total deck height (Space below the floor and above the ceiling for all the gubbins and tech).

 

[Mr Silver]

Nicely Done as always Bmused55

It does appear to have a lot of shuttles for a ship about half the size of a Sovereign Class Starship

 

[T'Girl]

^ Medical evacuations where you can't use the transporters?

 

[LCARSGFX]

Spot on T'Girl

 

[Timo]

...Plus, medevac shuttles or deployable field hospitals might be bigger than the average liaison shuttle types.

Possibly this type of ship could also have a greater number of transporters than shown.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[LCARSGFX]

...Plus, medevac shuttles or deployable field hospitals might be bigger than the average liaison shuttle types.

Possibly this type of ship could also have a greater number of transporters than shown.

Timo Saloniemi

It's a WIP, I've already drawn in more transporters. But there would be far more than is feasable to illustrate.

 

[Timo]

Yup. Looking good so far!

What are the operating rooms and other medical facilities going to look like? Will there be triage centers close to the shuttlebay, or will the "business spaces" be concentrated in the primary hull while the operating crew and the machinery stay in the secondary hull? There's something to be said for both layouts.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[LCARSGFX]

What you see in the current WIP image is a cluster of sickbay type layouts immediately forward a large transporter and the shuttle bay. These I envision as the initial triage center. Just forward of these are some intensive care suites and operating theatres.

Crew quarters and evacuee / walking-wounded accomodation will be in the primary hull. Along with further medical facilities should the sphere need to detatch in an emergency so that critical patients can continue to be cared for.

Hull seperation for the Olympic class I'd say would be a one way process, once detached, it'll need to be dry-docked to be re-connected as the only reason you'd want to take that action is if the core was going critical, you couldn't eject it and no other ships were able to beam you off in time.

That is the logic I'm following to create this MSD.

 

[kkozoriz1]

I could see the sphere being left in orbit to act as a hospital while the primary hull returned to starbase, visited another planet to pick up more wounded/sick, etc. Essentially, the primary hull is the hospital, the secondary hull is medivac/ambulance, etc. Is there anywhere to put a small shuttlebay or two in the sphere?

 

[LCARSGFX]

I could see the sphere being left in orbit to act as a hospital while the primary hull returned to starbase, visited another planet to pick up more wounded/sick, etc. Essentially, the primary hull is the hospital, the secondary hull is medivac/ambulance, etc. Is there anywhere to put a small shuttlebay or two in the sphere?

Too be honest, I think that is a daft idea. Might as well tow an orbital hospital into orbit instead.

 

[kkozoriz1]

That's essentially what it would be except it would connect to the ship directly.

 

[LCARSGFX]

It would much simpler to dispatch two hospital ships if you needed something to remain in orbit while a ship heads off elsewhere.

 

[Starlock]

Let's flip this around:

Could the sphere section detach and land as a sort of hospital base?

A sphere provides a lot of internal volume for use, so it might come in handy for use in areas where space is limited like within a city or on an island location.

 

[SicOne]

Do you have length and width measurements for the Olympic as well? I don't think I've ever seen a decent orthographic view of it.

 

[LCARSGFX]

Whats the fascination of having the sphere seperate people?
Not every starfleet ship HAS to have that function

 

[SicOne]

^ Gigantic lifeboat function for warp core problems...separate from the secondary hull and move to a safe distance.

If the Galaxy-class had not had that ability, how many people would not have survived the events of "Generations"?

 

[Mr Silver]

I wouldn't think that the "Olympic Class" would have the "Seperation" ability, after all theres no indication of any propulsion systems on the spherical section of the ship,

Not all post Galaxy-Class ships with Primary and Secondary Hulls, require Saucer Seperation options, look at the Intrepid-Class , Nova-Class and of course the Sovereign-Class (although a lot of people still maintain that the Sov would have this feature)

 

[kkozoriz1]

Just musing on possibilities. The sphere looks, to me at least, like it's just sort of stuck on the secondary hull. Not in a bad way though. I'm just thinking that the secondary may be more like a tug used to transport various modules. It's an unusual design and I'm just thinking of why it looks like it does.

 

[Mr Silver]

Just musing on possibilities. The sphere looks, to me at least, like it's just sort of stuck on the secondary hull. Not in a bad way though. I'm just thinking that the secondary may be more like a tug used to transport various modules. It's an unusual design and I'm just thinking of why it looks like it does.

I agree with that, I think its very likely that the Olympic Class ships are modular, akin to the Nebula and Miranda/Soyuz class ships

But I still don't think that the modular section can seperate and function like the saucer section of a Galaxy class starship, I would think that depending on the mission, the ship is fitted with a module in drydock, if the mission changes, then the ship returns to drydock and another module is fitted...again i'm going by the lack of propulsion systems on the modular section

I'd imagine that the Olympic Class is a Medical Ship by design with the modular section being configured for various purposes, say that the ship is on active duty to escort wounded personel in a warzone, then perhaps the spherical section would be outfitted to contain several Infirmaries that cater to different types injuries, etc, that way specific triage can be implemented efficiently

 

[LCARSGFX]

^ Gigantic lifeboat function for warp core problems...separate from the secondary hull and move to a safe distance.

If the Galaxy-class had not had that ability, how many people would not have survived the events of "Generations"?

I already covered that. Please re-read my post.