Raven MSD

[StarshipDefiant]

This is great work, if I had to make a complaint at all, it'd be wishing the image was larger, but to say the truth, I am pleased with the detail given to a minor background ship that appeared only a couple times. A point of interest, or rather not interest per se, has anyone else noticed from the shows MSD that what looks to be deck two seems to be to small on the display for people? Not counting the bridge of course, the rest seems almost like a crawl way or a half deck. Anyone notice that? Perhaps this is why most sources say theres four decks, rather then five?

 

[Crewman47]

I like the Raven itself but I always thought it was too big of a ship for only two people and there daughter. Imo they should've enlisted more people to join them, maybe 3 or 4 more, especially for Engineering and Science tasks or they should've went for a smaller ship, an early Runabout for example and before anyone says anything I know the Danube class only got introduced in TNG season 7 but there could've been Runabout type ships before that.

 

[Timo]

I get the feel of a specific type of sailing boat here. As opposed to the sort of boat a "normal" family would employ for their summertime entertainment (in Star Trek, a runabout or a shuttle), this is an oceangoing craft ten times larger, intended for circumnavigating the globe or exploring the antarctic waters (or, to keep with the Trek analogy, for hunting semi-mythical sea creatures) but still plausibly crewed by just two slightly obsessed people and their daughter.

Timo Saloniemi