Enterprise-D Captain's Yacht Concept Design - Calypso

[timmyjack!]

I appreciate the discussion and ideas you guys have brought up! Shows I need to start working on the internals / systems to answer some of the questions. Thoughts below...

@timmyjack! can confirm if he stuck to the measurements below, but you can look at his earlier post where he measured the yacht (quoted below for you).

His measurements are 44m beam, 25.5m length.

Yes - confirmed. I'd like to keep it all to real world scale so that the designs are plausible and work with canon sets.

Here are some concept sketches and general thoughts of the arrangement:

The cet ops is also meant to integrate with the 'mall' that occupies a lot of the saucer.

I was being tongue-in-cheek...

In an emergency evacuation, a sick bay would be on the Yacht, obviously. Also it would be used to give people a break from the confined space aboard Shuttlecraft.

The main computers, aboard the Yacht plus the replicators, could refit any Shuttlecraft...

In Star Trek Generations, I would have jettisoned the Yacht, with a crew of two - just in case.

I actually have a similar idea for a short film - that Data had to jettison the yacht and have it deploy a tractor beam to correct the saucer's trajectory and avoid nosediving into a cliff. The yacht is obliterated in the process and there can be all kinds of sentimental undertones there...

Generally I agree with what you're saying about the yacht. It should be multifunctional and kind of like a tugboat in terms of strength relative to size.

if the nacelles were located where i think you're implying, they'd cut right through where the living quarters are. that said, though, there's no reason to think that the beans are the location of the warp nacelles, or that if they are, that they have to extend. they could be access hatches and the nacelles stay put, with enough of a gap or internal radiation that the supspace radiation or whatever that makes mounting them close supposedly dangerous gets soaked up. which then put in my mind that there is clearly enough space for a lower deck, and i wonder what, if any, plans timmyjack has for that...

This is something I need to work through the details on for the interior design. In a previous version I have the warp core dead center where the little bump is on the underside of the yacht: