Has anybody done any technical explication about that big vertical middle section on the Antares from the TOS-R version of “Charlie X” (and the Starfleet cargo ships from TAS)? I find myself imagining it as a detachable cargo module that slips out of the frame of the ship and makes planetary landings on its own power, to deliver its cargo and take on new material for transport.
USS Antares vertical middle section
- Thread starter FredH
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the Antares type seems to have crew spaces in there n their animated series appearance, based on the windows. suggesting it is not a removeable bit.
when one appears in LD "terminal provocations", the destroyed hulk seems to have large cargo modules within that space though, so it probably is a cargo bay however.
the modules look to be the large shipping containers seen in TMP and TWoK, and seen drifting elsewhere in the wreck (some of which spilled smaller hexagonal crates.)
TMP cargo pods:
(in TwoK the cargo pods Khan's people lived in where meant to be modified versions of these, but you can't really tell from the angle they were filmed at, especially with the blowing sand effects. there are production pics which show it more but i'm still trying to track them down again)
when one appears in LD "terminal provocations", the destroyed hulk seems to have large cargo modules within that space though, so it probably is a cargo bay however.
the modules look to be the large shipping containers seen in TMP and TWoK, and seen drifting elsewhere in the wreck (some of which spilled smaller hexagonal crates.)
TMP cargo pods:
(in TwoK the cargo pods Khan's people lived in where meant to be modified versions of these, but you can't really tell from the angle they were filmed at, especially with the blowing sand effects. there are production pics which show it more but i'm still trying to track them down again)
