Olympic-Class MSD

[Bill Morris]

Okay I'll add that ramp. Thanks.

 

[Timo]

we know that any ambulance entrance has to be as close to the ER as possible

Yet the helipad of yer typical hospital may be quite distant from the ER, by aeronautical necessity. And one wouldn't really want the chopper landing next to the main doors of the ER anyway, due to all sorts of risks and a number of logistics issues relating to helicopters. A balance would have to be found, and might apply to the Olympic class as well.

The ER or triage facilities of an Olympic might well be in the secondary hull, of course. OTOH, one might postulate that there exists an "assembly line" processing path for incoming casualties, one that is best executed as a long linear setup and thus benefits from the fact that the shuttlebay is at one end of the ship while covalescence wards are at the other.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SpyOne]

I think maybe you are looking at this backwards:
We agree that logically the shuttle bay should be near the hospital, and we agree that the thing near the top-rear of the secondary hull looks like a shuttle bay, yet for some reason you think the hospital needs to be far away from there?

If we use the "ball" as quarters for the crew and the location for as many vital systems as possible, it frees up a lot of space in the secondary hull for a hospital.
The warp core you've used looks like it would fit horizontally in the "hump" between the nacelles, for example.

 

[Mr. Mugato]

I admit that I have always felt that the Prometheus was the very epitome of the term "Fanboy".

However, having the Olympic-class be able to split into separate parts actually makes sense.

For example:

The sphere could be placed in orbit around the planet in need of medical relief while the rest of the ship shuttles additional doctors and supplies to and from the site. Patients can be treated in orbit and then sent back down to the planet to recuperate, or transferred to the "body" of the ship to be transferred to another, longer term facility elsewhere.