"Darn that DSG2k, he forgot all about this."
Never. I remember the unfinished projects the best.
I _recently played with the Star Trek II "CONDITION: RED" diagram_ and its canonical indication of the decks of the refit 1701. I then compared it to the Jefferies cutaway that also showed nine saucer decks, and found a lot of commonality between the two versions of the ship. The very next thing I did was to take the Hull Pressure Compartments diagram and try to match it up with the now-known-pretty-good-if-not-entirely-canonical Jefferies drawing (accurized to the 11 footer by Yotsuya).
It blew me away the first time because the saucer decks basically lined up. I had more trouble trying to figure out what to do with the engineering hull, but the basic concept was not implausible. I then returned to this thread and saw that initial 221 meter version and was blown away a second time because that's the same scale I landed on to make the decks work.
Here's one of the options I created . . . the saucer is basically where I think it should be, it's the secondary hull that I just sort of moved around to various spots trying to match it up as best I could:
The basic premise here would be the bridge as deck 1, the bubble below as deck 2, the upper convexity as deck 3 . . . which works since it's all shorter. The widest deck now 4. We can either take 4 to be rather tall or assume that black line is the bottom of 5 which only really exists in the center of the saucer. That's the way I'd go. Deck 6 is, like 3, a single-deck convexity.
I don't really care about the neck, hence the decapitation (and I'd already messed with the neck of the TOS ship).
The secondary hull is pretty interesting insofar as having some of the same curves. I'd rather the undercut land in the same place rather than require movement, but at least the curve matches. The idea in my head involves a rebuilding of the strongback, which has a different angle between the two versions . . . the HPC ship's secondary hull dorsal is almost a straight line from neck to shuttlebay, unlike the 'fastback' TOS ship (a description I am entirely fond of, not gonna lie). I suppose that could justify the move of the shuttlebay, though I tried to retain the shuttlebay back wall as a preserved frame in this overlay option.
Opinions? Suggestions?
Never. I remember the unfinished projects the best.
I _recently played with the Star Trek II "CONDITION: RED" diagram_ and its canonical indication of the decks of the refit 1701. I then compared it to the Jefferies cutaway that also showed nine saucer decks, and found a lot of commonality between the two versions of the ship. The very next thing I did was to take the Hull Pressure Compartments diagram and try to match it up with the now-known-pretty-good-if-not-entirely-canonical Jefferies drawing (accurized to the 11 footer by Yotsuya).
It blew me away the first time because the saucer decks basically lined up. I had more trouble trying to figure out what to do with the engineering hull, but the basic concept was not implausible. I then returned to this thread and saw that initial 221 meter version and was blown away a second time because that's the same scale I landed on to make the decks work.
Here's one of the options I created . . . the saucer is basically where I think it should be, it's the secondary hull that I just sort of moved around to various spots trying to match it up as best I could:
The basic premise here would be the bridge as deck 1, the bubble below as deck 2, the upper convexity as deck 3 . . . which works since it's all shorter. The widest deck now 4. We can either take 4 to be rather tall or assume that black line is the bottom of 5 which only really exists in the center of the saucer. That's the way I'd go. Deck 6 is, like 3, a single-deck convexity.
I don't really care about the neck, hence the decapitation (and I'd already messed with the neck of the TOS ship).
The secondary hull is pretty interesting insofar as having some of the same curves. I'd rather the undercut land in the same place rather than require movement, but at least the curve matches. The idea in my head involves a rebuilding of the strongback, which has a different angle between the two versions . . . the HPC ship's secondary hull dorsal is almost a straight line from neck to shuttlebay, unlike the 'fastback' TOS ship (a description I am entirely fond of, not gonna lie). I suppose that could justify the move of the shuttlebay, though I tried to retain the shuttlebay back wall as a preserved frame in this overlay option.
Opinions? Suggestions?
