What is the greebled area in the front, shaped like an elongated diamond?
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Supposedly, a collection of sensors.
Greeblies like that are the Sternbach way of showing exposed instrumentation. Andrew Probert's Enterprise-D has such things in the trench around the saucer rim, but Sternbach expanded from there and applied sensor farms like that on various exposed positions on the TNG shuttlecraft, DS9 runabouts, and eventually also Voyager.
The sensor farm is never seen in "action" (whatever that might be) or referred to in dialogue, but that's how it's always labeled in backstage material, scale model kit instructions etc. There's also a smaller rectangular counterpart aft of the bridge, and several lateral slits on the primary and secondary hull rims.
Timo Saloniemi
Greeblies like that are the Sternbach way of showing exposed instrumentation. Andrew Probert's Enterprise-D has such things in the trench around the saucer rim, but Sternbach expanded from there and applied sensor farms like that on various exposed positions on the TNG shuttlecraft, DS9 runabouts, and eventually also Voyager.
The sensor farm is never seen in "action" (whatever that might be) or referred to in dialogue, but that's how it's always labeled in backstage material, scale model kit instructions etc. There's also a smaller rectangular counterpart aft of the bridge, and several lateral slits on the primary and secondary hull rims.
Timo Saloniemi
In-universe, Voyager probably needed those extra sensor pallets due to her small size. The massive saucer of the E-D allowed it to have a very long, very wide trench all around the perimeter of the main section. For Voyager to acquire even half the sensor data would mean making compromises to the skin of the ship.
Hell, maybe all those slitty half height "windows" are nothing of the sort either? They could feasibly be locations for additional ship-mounting sensor equipment and it's not like we ever saw them being identified as portholes in the series! The only windows we ever saw were the large rectangular ones featured in Janeway's, Chakotay's and Tuvok's quarters. Even when Tom & Belanna moved into their not-very-spacious double cabin (with combined sleeping / living area) they had the same rectangular windows.
Also, some of those slitty ones are in some really weird places to be useful portholes (see Deck 3)
Hell, maybe all those slitty half height "windows" are nothing of the sort either? They could feasibly be locations for additional ship-mounting sensor equipment and it's not like we ever saw them being identified as portholes in the series! The only windows we ever saw were the large rectangular ones featured in Janeway's, Chakotay's and Tuvok's quarters. Even when Tom & Belanna moved into their not-very-spacious double cabin (with combined sleeping / living area) they had the same rectangular windows.
Also, some of those slitty ones are in some really weird places to be useful portholes (see Deck 3)
True, but that porthole was:
1) Square in shape and recessed, not short, slitty and angled.
2) Never seen before or after that one shot in that one episode. Maybe it has seamless shutters in place the rest of the time?
There's also Neelix's porthole which suddenly appears in his cabin in Night (solely for the purpose of him complaining about the view). However, it is vertical instead of angled, and in addition couldn't possibly be on the outer wall of the ship as there is another part of the room which sticks out beyond the "window".
1) Square in shape and recessed, not short, slitty and angled.
2) Never seen before or after that one shot in that one episode. Maybe it has seamless shutters in place the rest of the time?
There's also Neelix's porthole which suddenly appears in his cabin in Night (solely for the purpose of him complaining about the view). However, it is vertical instead of angled, and in addition couldn't possibly be on the outer wall of the ship as there is another part of the room which sticks out beyond the "window".
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Something cool looking, which could be whatever the plot might have needed it to be at the time.
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