More LCARS 24 schematics

[Bill Morris]

No need, but those seats had big, bulky seatbelts when they were used on the Phoenix in FC but not when used in the inspection pod. And the scenes of Archer and Tucker and later Archer and Forrest in this pod were very suggestive of having the artificial gravity on, although I assume there is a button for turning it off.

And maybe the microfusion generator, like the gas engine of a plug-in hybrid car, doesn't start up at all during a short trip.

 

[brandomack]

Thanks, guys. I have to get back on that inspection pod. It's close.

Here's something from the Sovereign class shuttlebay:

the EV suits are a nice touch. me likey.

 

[Bill Morris]

Thanks. The Aeon isn't done yet. But I've got 10 MSDs of real space hardware, and I've done a little on No. 11, which isn't Trek canon until it gets mentioned in some future episode, perhaps in the next decade, but I want to get this thing right before getting back to the Trek stuff.

 

[Bill Morris]

This is a redo of one of the old ones:

 

[Bill Morris]

Another redo:

 

[publiusr]

Thanks. The Aeon isn't done yet. But I've got 10 MSDs of real space hardware, and I've done a little on No. 11, which isn't Trek canon until it gets mentioned in some future episode, perhaps in the next decade, but I want to get this thing right before getting back to the Trek stuff.

Here is an idea for the old SS1. There was this thing called single stage to tether. So I can see an orbital version (that would never stand direct re-entry except by rotovator, with an astronaut shoving the engine out and having a docking tube out the back for a tethered lifeboat-rotavator.

 

[Bill Morris]

Well, carbon fiber makes tethering theoretically, if not financially, possible. As you know, SS1 and SS2 are just to get to the edge of space and would need 60 times as much energy to make it to orbit. Cool, even so.

Anyway, I put the finished SpaceShipOne MSD in the Art forum. A couple of other Trek things are in progress, and I put the last 6 up on my Web site, including the Centaur, and updated the NX shuttlecraft to correct the shape of the impulse exhaust vents.

http://lcars24.com/starfleet.html

 

[judge alba]

Lcars, I was wondering if it will be ok for me to modify your ambassador class schematic to use in a sketch up model of a ambassador version of the nebula class I'm working on?

I'll credit you with the original work of course

 

[Bill Morris]

No prob. Here's just the ship image, without the LCARS screen.

 

[Vinkula]

Amazing, is it hard to do these? Are you going to do Galaxy class LCARS?

 

[Bill Morris]

Amazing, is it hard to do these? Are you going to do Galaxy class LCARS?

Hard? Well, almost all of them take a bit of research, and nearly all have problems to be worked out.

The Galaxy class is here:

http://lcars24.com/schem9.html

And there are 66 of them on my Web site, as well as MSDs of various real spacecraft. These are primarily for my LCARS software package, and more than half them were done by contributors.

http://lcars24.com/

And I see that Ambassador class needs a new outline, after being butchered with a bunch of corrections.

Here's one that's only partially done, and the outline was drawn with a still-experimental LCARS app.

 

[Bill Morris]

Here's the Ambassador with a new outline:

 

[Satyrquaze]

Thanks, guys. I have to get back on that inspection pod. It's close.

Here's something from the Sovereign class shuttlebay:

Is that a schematic within a schematic? You just blew my mind!

Seriously, though, thats pretty awesome.

 

[Judge King]

Thanks, guys. I have to get back on that inspection pod. It's close.

Here's something from the Sovereign class shuttlebay:

Is that a schematic within a schematic? You just blew my mind!

Seriously, though, thats pretty awesome.

If you look closely, you'll notice that it's actually a schematic within a schematic within a schematic. That should completely blow your mind.

 

[judge alba]

No prob. Here's just the ship image, without the LCARS screen.

cool thanks

 

[Bill Morris]

Okay, but you should use the improved version, a few posts up. I whipped out a new outline for it quickly so you would have a better image to work with.

Maybe this will help with what you are doing, as well:

 

[judge alba]

cheers certainly something to work with. your work as usual is great. I should be able to play around with that. trying to get a nebula type ship with it got the basic shape just need to fill it in.

 

[Bill Morris]

In other goofing around, . . .

 

[Unicron]

Some of Jackill's movie-era destroyers have a shuttle pad that can retract into the saucer like those used on DS9, and I've always assumed that was the case with the TOS FJ ships as well.

 

[Vance]

I'm of the opinion, in all honesty, that smaller ships do not carry shuttles. I really wonder at what size does a ship have to be before the idea of it carrying even smaller ships all the time gets pretty silly.

"This Danube-Class Runabout is equipped with two shuttles... just in case..."

So, no, to my mind that Saladin, Hermes, Larson, et al., simply do not carry them. They have the escape pods and likely a couple of work-bees stored in the gangway hatch, but they don't need to dedicate space to a full-fledged hangar. It's not those ship's job to carry them.