VOY interior map as used by writers

[lurok]

Not sure if this been posted already, but best interior map of USS Voyager I've seen and was used as guide by series writers. Courtesy of drexfiles.

http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/voyager-writers-room-diagram/

Quite interesting when realise how far engineering/B'Elanna is

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

That's incredible! Did they use diagrams/layouts like this for TNG, TOS, and so on?

 

[T.D. Possum]

That's pretty neat, thanks for sharing the link.

What the heck is a hover pad? Deck 14.

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

Perhaps this:

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Everybody with warp ships NEEDS these. In case the transporters break down and start combing two people into one...

 

[T.D. Possum]

^ Next question: Where can I get one?

 

[F. King Daniel]

This can't be the one used by the writers. Where's shuttlebay 2?

 

[lurok]

This can't be the one used by the writers. Where's shuttlebay 2?

as one of the posters on drexfiles said: Maybe we could say the Aeroshuttle launch facility is Shuttlebay 1 and that’s why they seem to call the main one Shuttlebay 2.

 

[Candlelight]

They spelt Shutlebay wrong.

Which came first, that image or the main one?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070707040523/memoryalpha/en/images/a/a7/Voyager_MSD.jpg

 

[F. King Daniel]

The one on the bridge. Doug said he made the other one later.

But the writers clearly never used it... or any of the old diagrams either. In "Collective", Janeway says Voyager can't go to warp without her navigational deflector when ALL the diagrams say Voyager's got a spare on the saucer. Ditto the warp core - if Voyager really had two, than episodes like "The Raven" would be moot.

Which means the diagrams are all wrong, Voyager's only got one warp core, one navigational deflector and ....I still can't explain the magical size-and-shape changing shuttlebay(s). I don't think the one in "Drive" would fit at Voyager's supposed size even if the hull were hollow, to say nothing lf how that ship got through the doors or where they're keeping Neelix's vessel through all this.

 

[Tomalak]

I'm sure Rich Sternbach explained away the "spare" warp core as just a collection of spare parts that had already been partly used by the crew for repairs, not a fully-functioning replacement.

 

[BlobVanDam]

The one on the bridge. Doug said he made the other one later.

But the writers clearly never used it... or any of the old diagrams either. In "Collective", Janeway says Voyager can't go to warp without her navigational deflector when ALL the diagrams say Voyager's got a spare on the saucer. Ditto the warp core - if Voyager really had two, than episodes like "The Raven" would be moot.

Which means the diagrams are all wrong, Voyager's only got one warp core, one navigational deflector and ....I still can't explain the magical size-and-shape changing shuttlebay(s). I don't think the one in "Drive" would fit at Voyager's supposed size even if the hull were hollow, to say nothing lf how that ship got through the doors or where they're keeping Neelix's vessel through all this.

Is it possible that the secondary deflector dish is more like a spare tyre; enough to limp around with, but you wouldn't want to be driving for long distances at high speeds. Because it's so much smaller, it might not be big enough for high warp, which would explain why the NX-01 could get away with such a small one, since it could only manage warp 5 for shorter bursts.
As for the secondary warp core, we'd just have to convince ourselves that they either shipped off quickly without a secondary warp core, since they didn't expect to need it, or the secondary warp core is only a replacement for the basic housing, but doesn't include the dilithium/antimatter jargon to actually make it functional.

 

[Rick Sternbach]

I'm sure Rich Sternbach explained away the "spare" warp core as just a collection of spare parts that had already been partly used by the crew for repairs, not a fully-functioning replacement.

The spare core is a collection of parts, yes. It's not a redundant core tied into the PTCs. Pulling out the spare and hooking it up, hot-fire testing and calibrating, would have taken a while. Thank goodness they didn't need to.

Rick

 

[Ro_Laren]

Cool diagram. I'm sure it was a great help.

 

[Candlelight]

I'm sure Rich Sternbach explained away the "spare" warp core as just a collection of spare parts that had already been partly used by the crew for repairs, not a fully-functioning replacement.

The spare core is a collection of parts, yes. It's not a redundant core tied into the PTCs. Pulling out the spare and hooking it up, hot-fire testing and calibrating, would have taken a while. Thank goodness they didn't need to.

Rick

That would've been a funny episode though. They spend the whole B-story getting it set up, only for the original to start working / get recovered.

"Back into storage she goes... along with the Borg baby and all those extra shuttles..."