According to Doug Drexler, the aft torpedoes fired by the Defiant in ENT Season 4 were meant to come from that hole, but the idea got lost in communication somewhere from outline to final FX.
Not really.
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Yeah I think I remember that back in the day. It always made good tactical sense (to me, anyway) that all ships should have aft-firing torpedoes, particularly in an emergency evacuation situation.
'As Seen in Discovery S02'
Must be a pre-production diagram, considering none of the new SNW characters are listed there.
Though it does have the new saucer windows added in SNW, at least on the side view, they're missing on the top view, and it still has the larger DSC bridge window.
It looks like a giant bug to me. Actually, a bit like the larger beetle-like replicators in Stargate.
Oh yeah…. I see it now.
Something interesting, the Shuttle set blueprints show a small transporter pad in the back behind a door, but I don't believe we've ever seen that, might be something they cut.
Trying to find the image now, but I can't.
Plus the TOS shuttle itself was too small for the interior set. Size is never a constant in Star Trek.
Trying to find the image now, but I can't.
I don't see that at all.
Nothing is ever done for 'no reason'.
Plus the TOS shuttle itself was too small for the interior set. Size is never a constant in Star Trek.
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the interior set being the way it is due to the limitations of filming tv in the 60s. much like having one short curving corridor segment as a stand in for a multitude of locations where the corridors would have different angles of curve or even be straight, etc.
upsizing the Enterprise with the alleged intention being to "fix" some of these discrepancies is certainly a reason, yes. but somewhat undermined when you upsize the other things, past even where they'd match.
upsizing the Enterprise with the alleged intention being to "fix" some of these discrepancies is certainly a reason, yes. but somewhat undermined when you upsize the other things, past even where they'd match.
this one's just all on my sense of aesthetics, i guess. sharpening all the corners, raising the side angels, wedging it out more... i do see what BJ says about it being more insectoid, even SG1 replicatorlike
poor BoPs....
That would be intriguing. I’ve never seen a shuttle with a transporter outside of the TNG eras and beyond, like the Type 7 shuttle, which had one in the middle of the main section, or a runabout, which also had a transporter pad. I don’t know of a picture, sadly, yet at least.
That’s hugely true. Ships like the Birds-of-Prey and even background ships in DS9 are the main “offenders”.
The DSC shuttle had a transporter, but no visible pad.That would be intriguing. I’ve never seen a shuttle with a transporter outside of the TNG eras and beyond, like the Type 7 shuttle, which had one in the middle of the main section, or a runabout, which also had a transporter pad. I don’t know of a picture, sadly, yet at least.
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