Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™
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To me, looks like it's about the same size as what we see in TOS. Beautiful pics!
It's significantly larger.
Interesting, the ribs on the half closest to the doors look similar to the ones on the Engineering set, rotated 180° so they're tilting in rather than out. I wonder if that's just visual consistency, or if they're planning ahead and thinking if they have a scene set in the shuttlebay, what pieces and parts they already have that they could use to fill out the set so it's not just all AR wall.
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big time, the TOS bay only looked like they could land one shuttle at a time. The 1701-A could fit two but it was a tight fit. This one fits 4 with room to spare.
Plus, the shuttles are a bit larger as well.
For comparison
Looks like TOS-R made the shuttle bay smaller (or the shuttles bigger)
Looks like TOS-R made the shuttle bay smaller (or the shuttles bigger)
TOS Shuttle Bay
TOS-R Shuttlebay
TAS Shuttle Bay
Was just about to say the SNW shuttlebay immediately made me think of TAS. Fundamentally makes more sense as you'd want the utility space. Another neat thing is the TOS secondary hull shape implies the bay has space below it for storing more shuttles/maintenance versus the SNW likely single deck shuttlebay so I just see it as they just reorganized how space was utilized between the shuttlebay/cargo when updating the hull shape (TMPs bay/cargo area also implies that structural change combining spaces).
It seems they might be fudging the size for the beauty shot though (I don't have a problem with it, but I'm still gonna talk about it). You see assuming the enterprise is modeled as 442 meters long that bay door would be ~19 meters wide, and from what we know of the dimensions of the sets the interiors of the shuttles are 25ft(7.62 meters) wide, add a meter to either side (eyeballing) for the hull plating, engine nacelles, and attaching pylons, and parking would be much tighter in there than what we see.
Though perhaps its the shuttle interiors that are fudged and the shuttles are only supposed to be the size of big vans (so 4-5 meters wide tops) in which case they'd probably park in the bay as depicted just fine.
I figure the Stamets was a shuttle assigned to the dockyard, would explain why Pike beamed off rather than landing if the shuttle had other places to be.
De Gama.
Kelcie Mae reminds me of the 2001 spaceplane
that is a weird looking ship. Reminds me of the Vulcan ships we’ve seen on here.
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