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Or maybe Eaves come up with it on his own...gee, there's a novel idea.
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Hmm... Now that I had a chance to look through the whole promo clip with the shuttles, and not just the stills, it seems to me that there IS in fact an aft door to the shuttles. It seems that a flight of stairs leads down from the upper level to the upper aft part of Pod 1, and a hatch has been opened there and is visible behind the launching arm. No stairs or hatch are visible on Pod 2.
Presumably the shuttles will have two or three doors - the upper-aft one for boarding while docked to the ship, and the side door(s) for use on planetary surfaces. Hopefully, the aft door will incorporate an airlock, unless the whole shuttle is to be evacuated whenever the crew wants to disembark to a hostile atmosphere or vacuum.
This leaves very little room for propulsion - so these shuttles may not be quite that much more realistic than later-era shuttles after all.
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I, too was wondering about an airlock. If there isn't going to be any shields, I don't think they'll have a nice forcefield holding the atmosphere of the shuttlebay intact.
Oh and one other thing
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quote:Wow. I really like that set. It's a very nice departure from the usual boring design of the other four series.
NOW JUST HANG ON A MINUTE!
DS9 had the most FANTASTIC sets EVER... the Promenade... Ops... ahhhh.
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And, of course, Andrew, the inference goes to the set design of shuttle bays. The shuttle bay sets of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and the movies have all been incredibly boring. All they have been are huge two-story garages. This set for the Enterprise shuttle bay showed a compact structure with a busy and interesting design. Not a big cubic space uninterrupted except for a control booth.
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I thought the Defiant Shuttle bay was very cool. Of course we only got to see it that one time in "The Sound of Her Voice", and even then, not for very long. But the illustration in the Tech Manual looked like a great set...to me anyway.
I also rather like the runabout pads and their bays.
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Ah. I forgot about the Defiant's little shuttle bay. That was a pretty neat design. Single shuttle deployment, circular design, very nice. Yeah, I did like the design of that bay a lot.
But the runabout pads, did we ever see the runabout bay? All I can remember are seeing the pads elevate to the outer hull with the runabouts powering up as the pads stopping moving.
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There was a very detailed shot of the interior of the runabout storage room when the Romulan shuttle in episode *mumble* visited the station.
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"In the Pale Moonlight"... a very well done episode...and yes we did get a nice interior shot. There are also good schematics of the runabout pads in the tech manual.
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Ah. That explains it then. I do not own the DS9 Technical Manual (but I did see the Defiant shuttle bay drawing somewhere on the 'net). I also only saw the final fifteen minutes of "In The Pale Moonlight." So that's why I haven't seen the runabout pad.
I'll take your word for it, though.
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Is it me or is it that the shuttle on the left of the pic looks like a Type-9 with the nacelles ripped off? Anyway, I like the catwalk above the shuttles.
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