Question About Ed Whitefire's 1701-D Blueprints...

[FalTorPan]

On Deck 7, aft, just to starboard of the centerline, and just inboard of the Main Bridge-to-Battle Bridge turboshaft, there's a large detail that looks almost like a big drill bit. What is that thing?

 

[Forbin]

I'd like to know also!

Subspace coil to keep the saucer at warp after separation?

 

[Mike Have-Not]

Now I am curious as well!

It certainly does resemble a HUGE drill bit, though...

 

[Patrickivan]

Where are you seeing that? I'm looking at my blueprint set right now and can't find what you're refering to. I looking on Deck 8 with battle bridge and deck 7 around the lift tubes, and I can't find your drill bitty thingy...

I've looked on the side view too, and looked in the TNG Manual (though much smaller then my blueprints).

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Patrickivan said:
Where are you seeing that? I'm looking at my blueprint set right now and can't find what you're refering to. I looking on Deck 8 with battle bridge and deck 7 around the lift tubes, and I can't find your drill bitty thingy...

I've looked on the side view too, and looked in the TNG Manual (though much smaller then my blueprints).

On the posted page, there are TWO decks. This confused me for a moment, too. The leftmost deck is 6, the rightmost deck is 7.

On deck 7, go to the exact center of the deck. Draw a line directly to the left, laterally.JUST below that, as you move to the left, is a tapering arrangement that seems to be larger, then smaller, sections "stacked." The wide end is to the left, the narrow end is to the right. The "Battle bridge" turbolift shaft wraps around it (that shaft is labeled in the view, so that should help). Just on the other side of the centerline, you'll find the "emergency generators."

 

[Mike Have-Not]

Is it possible that that structure might have something to do with locking the saucer section to the stardrive section? That deck would be around about where stuff related to that would be located.

Then again, it would seem like something that big, if it were as big in all three dimesions as it is in the two we can see, would be present on the deck directly below as well. But, it isn't... :-\

 

[Starlock]

It looks more like a bank of servers and wiring/fiber trunks. The odd angle allows space to be used more efficiently.

Methinks it's more likely a part of the "Computer Link To Secondary Hull" mechanics.

 

[Forbin]

Patrickivan said:
Where are you seeing that? I'm looking at my blueprint set right now and can't find what you're refering to. I looking on Deck 8 with battle bridge and deck 7 around the lift tubes, and I can't find your drill bitty thingy...

I've looked on the side view too, and looked in the TNG Manual (though much smaller then my blueprints).

This is on the Ed Whitefire blueprints, not the commercially-available official Rick Sternbach blueprints or the tech manual.

 

[Patrickivan]

Okay- I was having trouble opening the link last night, and was using my RS Blueprints...

Looking at it, my firts thought were rows of computer banks.. The shaded lines and arrangement of the banks just give the illusion of a drill, or corkscrew..

But I'm just guessing- I've never seen anything like this in any of my docs.

 

[Ziz]

Guys, pay attention. Right at the edge of the saucer, at the wide end of the thing you're talking about, it says "COMPUTER LINK TO SECONDARY HULL".

Obviously those diagonal things are rows of computer banks, not a corkscrew powered warp drive.

 

[FalTorPan]

Ziz said:
Guys, pay attention. Right at the edge of the saucer, at the wide end of the thing you're talking about, it says "COMPUTER LINK TO SECONDARY HULL".

Obviously those diagonal things are rows of computer banks, not a corkscrew powered warp drive.

Guy, i did pay attention. There's no indication that the detail that the "COMPUTER LINK TO SECONDARY HULL" callout points to is in any way related to the feature that we're pondering.

 

[Timo]

Banks of long rectangles is how computers are described in the old TOS blueprints (the FJ set and many imitations), perhaps not solely through lack of imagination but also as a nod towards how the computer banks looked like in "The Menagerie" et al.

In that sense, I could easily see EW drawing his computer banks that way, even though the TNG-style twin cylinders are also present.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[FalTorPan]

Timo said:
Banks of long rectangles is how computers are described in the old TOS blueprints (the FJ set and many imitations), perhaps not solely through lack of imagination but also as a nod towards how the computer banks looked like in "The Menagerie" et al.

In that sense, I could easily see EW drawing his computer banks that way, even though the TNG-style twin cylinders are also present.

Timo Saloniemi

I don't deny the possibility that the feature we've been discussing is related to computers in some way. I'm simply pointing out that such a description is by no means obvious.

 

[Forbin]

Well, Obviously!