More LCARS 24 schematics
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For the record, here's a better cap from Deja-Q showing that "middle" compartment.
Considering the small table on the port side is partly visible in Best of Both Worlds (Screencap, bottom left) I would say the middle compartment is pretty damn spacious. Which would only make sense, in a way; the shuttle is designed for short interplanetary hops, not to function as a winnebago for bored away teams. If they're going some place that takes longer than a day to get there, they'd either take a runabout (Timescape) or hitch a ride with someone else (The Mind's Eye).
Considering the small table on the port side is partly visible in Best of Both Worlds (Screencap, bottom left) I would say the middle compartment is pretty damn spacious. Which would only make sense, in a way; the shuttle is designed for short interplanetary hops, not to function as a winnebago for bored away teams. If they're going some place that takes longer than a day to get there, they'd either take a runabout (Timescape) or hitch a ride with someone else (The Mind's Eye).
That's a nice screencap. Thanks. But we need some guidance from insiders or a cutaway from a tech manual or something. The picture I showed with Picard taken from a room behind that compartment shows a carpeted wall not suggestive of an engine room. And it's hard to measure anything from these pix.
I repeat: it was a turbolift.
And if that sounds confusing, I repeat again: Picard literally walked into the shuttlecraft from a turbolift.
As I said earlier, it was one of Q's various tricks: Picard got splashed with Sonya Gomez' hot chocolate and heads for a turbolift to go change his uniform. The lift stops, Picard steps through the doors into what is SUPPOSED to be a corridor when he suddenly has a "WTF?" moment, looks around, finds he's emerged into a shuttlecraft for no obvious reason. He then sees someone at the helm and demands "Crewman! What the hell is going on here..." only to realize the guy at the helm is Q: "Welcome, Picard, to shuttlecraft six."
Not to put too fine a point on it, but:
That room is a turbolift.
The turbolift is on the Enterprise.
The turbolift is NOT in the shuttlecraft.
Okay, I see. I remember that. Then there can be some kind of engine room, restroom, and maybe a little cargo space.
Okay, so maybe like this. I don't know. If the other warp shuttles can pack it all under the floor, then I would think this one doesn't need a floor-to-ceiling totem pole of a warp core.
And here's a redo of an old one:
And here's a redo of an old one:
Depends on what you're using it for. If the Type-7 is a long-range type craft intended to be capable of interstellar voyages (as in Galen's shuttle in "The Chase") then the core might be necessary to sustain those higher warp factors, or to do other work on sight (the core might be necessary to operate heavier weapons and shielding).
I don't know. But, referring to the Voyager figure above, you can see that the main warp core is a small fraction the size one nacelle. And I think that goes for every canon MSD we've seen and even for the Danube class warp system shown in the DS9 Technical Manual, where it's roughly the shape of what I did here for the type 7.
I don't know. But, referring to the Voyager figure above, you can see that the main warp core is a small fraction the size one nacelle. And I think that goes for every canon MSD we've seen and even for the Danube class warp system shown in the DS9 Technical Manual, where it's roughly the shape of what I did here for the type 7.
Yeah, but even in this diagram the drum-shaped object is just a dilithium chamber; you can clearly see the matter and antimatter injectors in front and behind it.
Here's the Drex Files spread on the Klingon Vegh'Var class:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/klingon-negh-var-transmission-point-sternbach/
And here's what I've got so far in the way of a schematic:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/klingon-negh-var-transmission-point-sternbach/
And here's what I've got so far in the way of a schematic:
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This should be done now:
I would love to see this at higher resolution. They'd make great desktops.
Well, if you want large MSDs made with Adobe Illustrator, the work of a couple of TrekBBS members comes to mind:
Joe Ralat
http://www.joseralat.com/
bmused55
http://lcarsgfx.wordpress.com/
Also, Cygnus-X1 Star Trek Blueprint Database has 47 items from my collection (which doesn't include the last 8 or several new versions of older ones or any of the real space hardware MSDs) blown up to 1200 or so in width, but with the same resolution:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/lcars24.php
But what I would also suggest is to take a screenshot with the PrtScrn button, paste it into MS-Paint, select black as the background color, cut (giving you an all-black image in your desktop screen size), then paste one of mine from my Web site into the upper ight-hand corner, leaving a black area on the left for better legibility of desktop icons, and saving that as a .png or .jpg (not as good as .png) file to be a desktop wallpaper image. I personally prefer that to having icons on top of part of the wallpaper image.
I like the Type-7 graphic so far... I'm figuring that the Type-7 probably can have swappable compartments, for mission-specific roles.
One more little thing:
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The Challenger class is done:
http://lcars24.com/schem59.html
The Sphinx workpod is a WIP, showing little more than an antigrav fork and some fusion thrusters. Aside from life-support stuff, sensors, and comm equipment, I'm not sure what to add, maybe something for towing capability.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm309/LCARS24/Sphinx1.png
http://lcars24.com/schem59.html
The Sphinx workpod is a WIP, showing little more than an antigrav fork and some fusion thrusters. Aside from life-support stuff, sensors, and comm equipment, I'm not sure what to add, maybe something for towing capability.
Great work.I have always loved your work. What will you do next after the Sphinx workpod?
Thanks. Other WIPs include the first starship U.S.S. Enterprise (XCV-300, circa 2123), Niagara and Cheyenne classes, captain's yacht Calpso, and Intrepid/Defiant escape pod. I may do the ENT inspection pod. I don't know what else yet. The Sphinx will be No. 60 in the Trek section.
