First, the D7:

Is that really the shape of the forward seat? Not a whole lot of lumbar support there. Just sayin'.
Otherwise, these are great!![]()
Hm....
You know it always seemed to me the Type-7 shuttle should have some kind of small vertical intermix chamber in the back of it, just forward of the impulse engine (as implied in diagrams here). The actual model has a little dome over this spot that would work well as the lid for some type of reactor assembly, possibly the "dilithium chamber" Geordi Mentions in "Coming of Age."
Agreed with above: the "bedroom" depicted is the middle compartment where the sofas would otherwise be in normal configurations, as you can clearly see in screencap #3 (the cockpit is on the other side of the door). I actually think the middle compartment you've sketched is a bit too small in the context of either configuration, especially since "Samaritan Snare" depicts there's enough room for a row of equipment lockers next to (slightly aft of) the sofas.Hm....
You know it always seemed to me the Type-7 shuttle should have some kind of small vertical intermix chamber in the back of it, just forward of the impulse engine (as implied in diagrams here). The actual model has a little dome over this spot that would work well as the lid for some type of reactor assembly, possibly the "dilithium chamber" Geordi Mentions in "Coming of Age."
Sure, but that schematic doesn't really leave room for the spacious interior seen on TNG, with an actual bedroom in the aft section. EAS has quite a collection of interior screencaps, which boil down to exactly the layout I've depicted. That's pretty much what I was working from and tryting to make things fit into the space given.
Here it is:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/type7-shuttle.htm
The screencap labeled Unnatural Selection #4 shows a bed where the warp core in that drawing would be.
Yes, but you that know the interior sets, taken together, are oversized in comparison with what could fit inside the hull, as is probably the case with all these shuttles, the Defiant, etc. What I did was look up today's mattress sizes, also keeping in mind that Riker is 6' 5" tall, and placed priority on showing the bed to scale as small as it could realistically be and leaving a little walking space, probably at the cost of sacrificing some width of the sofas.
No, there are only two compartments.I have to plead guilty to no longer having TNG on VHS, but here are some relevant screencaps. The top two seem to suggest three compartments, and the lower ones give some idea of what's in there.
Which is why I think you made the middle compartment too small to erroneously accomodate an additional compartment aft. The bed should be able to fit into the MIDDLE compartment with the sofas removed; problem solved.The bed might be a sofabed or other folding thing, but if the shuttle was designed to accommodate that, then it should be usable by somewhat tall humans like Riker, at least, if not Hupyrians.
Not THAT short, as evidenced here, here, here. And also in Q-Who, here where Q has enough room to bounce a small rubber ball off the forward bulkhead without standing with his back to the rear one.I searched Trekcore for any screencaps from TNG: Samaritan Snare that would shed light on the compartments, but the only one I could find still suggests a short center compartment.
Indeed, another example of a set redress for reasons that are never fully explained.And, as in the pictures of that compartment above, the back wall doesn't match that in the picture showing the bed.
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