Intrepid class starship shuttlebay?

[Patrickivan]

Holey crap dude! A 5 year old thread???? are you on crack?

I was a little creeped out to see my old comments... Though I was also in complete agreement with myself

I love these little guys!

Hey, this is some awesome nostalgia!

Agreed. But what's the answer to the OP's question?!?!?!

jpch is on a holy jihad of thread-resurrection today.

To say holy is a wee superfluous and a bit of an assumption. Jihad alone would have sufficed.

Yeah, but why did they never use it, when there were many good occasions to do so? I tend to agree with the Mr. Sternbach in rationalizing that away.

It was going to be installed on Tuesday.

Tuesday, a very special day in Starfleet indeed.

Plus, consider how many aircraft a naval carrier actually has, and how many can be launched at one time.

Great point. But in space, they don't need a runway for take of and landings. They really just need a hole, like all the escape pods.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ I was thinking more of the elevators that move the aircraft to other places, reducing the need for a lot of "runways" or shuttlebay doors.

 

[Patrickivan]

I see. And agree.

 

[MacLeod]

Think of the line as shuttlepad 2

 

[Mister_Atoz]

Shuttlebay 2 is where they stored the 17 extra shuttles that were destroyed throughout as well as the rest of their photon torpedoes Tuvok evidently forgot they were carrying when he stated they had only 36.

 

[Timo]

It always stretched credibility that our heroes couldn't manufacture photon torpedoes at will. This detracts from the Horatio Hornblower days where a ship would have to be pretty much its own dockyard, replenishing by manufacturing and pillaging rather than by waiting for the next FedEx shipment of ordnance.

Sure, there might be some components to torps that are difficult to make (DS9 "Tribunal" sort of establishes this), and damaged replicators are a good excuse, too. But none of that should stop the heroes from building "contingency" torpedoes to somewhat lower standards. I mean, it's rocket science, now isn't it? And rocket science is what the folks of Star Trek do in daddy's flitter garage while waiting to reach enlistment age for Starfleet.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Crazy Eddie]

After all these years, I think we need to be prepared to accept the potential canonicity of TARDIS technology in Starfleet. We already know for a fact that the Federation will eventually develop that kind of technology at some point ("Future Tense") and considering the curious internal layout of the TMP Enterprise it might well be a standard feature by the 23rd century.

In which case, I wouldn't be completely surprised if Voyager's two shuttlebays both opened to the same external door and you could toggle between them with a flip of a switch.

 

[Scout101]

TARDIS is definitely a requirement for Voyager's shuttle bay. The size of the storage bay, the size of the door relative to Nelix's ship or the Delta Flyer, the back storage area where they kept enough parts to build a couple dozen new ones, etc.

In fact, it's almost shocking that we never saw Voyager HERSELF flying out of Voyager's shuttlebay!

 

[Captain_Amasov]

TARDIS is definitely a requirement for Voyager's shuttle bay. The size of the storage bay, the size of the door relative to Nelix's ship or the Delta Flyer, the back storage area where they kept enough parts to build a couple dozen new ones, etc.

In fact, it's almost shocking that we never saw Voyager HERSELF flying out of Voyager's shuttlebay!

Voyager's shuttlebay must intersect with one of those subspace compression anomalies we saw on DS9.

 

[Clawhammer]

Well actually....

http://twitpic.com/8bhz4i/full

the 3D work once again stalled, I either do this refit subtle (if that is even possible....) or I will go all the way, and create a 2012 version of the now almost 18 year old design....

Actually I might poll that one... yeah I guess I will...

*40 minutes later: http://mark-rademaker.blogspot.com/ thanks for a vote!

 

[Starlock]

^VOTE! Bring it in to 2012! (Although I wouldn't mind a bit of hot-rodding...)

 

[USS Intrepid]

I voted for subtle, but then I like the ship the way it is. Regardless of what you do though, I think a second shuttlebay would be redundant on a ship that's really not much bigger than Kirk's Enterprise, and has half the crew.

 

[USS KG5]

I voted for subtle, but then I like the ship the way it is. Regardless of what you do though, I think a second shuttlebay would be redundant on a ship that's really not much bigger than Kirk's Enterprise, and has half the crew.

I bet Kirk sometimes thought "damn I wish I had two shuttle bays".

Maybe they converted a cargo bay for shuttles or something - they seem to have rather a lot of them.

 

[Scout101]

Why? Then there would be TWO shuttle bays people keep trying to steal shuttles out of. Keeping track of just the one was hard enough on most of these ships...