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Much to my suprise, I can't find any guesses on the actual size of deck 13, the Torpedo deck. The best I've come up with is 80' long and 20' wide, based on the airlock door being 6' diameter (on the filming model). Any better guesses? I'm trying to draw a deck plan putting the ST:II set in it. One thing I discoverd is the Scott's Guide makes the room about 30' wide, while it only looks about 15' wide on screen. I know that the set wasn't made with the model in mind.
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I don't think you should go based on the set design -- to me, the set looks like one half of the deck, while the sizing of the deck doesn't allow it to fit.
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When I did the 1701-A deck plans, I assumed that the set (the Bird-of-Prey bridge set), was the port-side torpedo bay, and was accompanied by an identical starboard-side one.
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but... did you measure the lingth and width? Where ARE these blueprints you keep alluding to, anyway?
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And can you give us the title that would most likely be "official" in such places as Amazon.com, as well as the ISBN number? I've been trying to locate a set of these for a couple years now, obviously w/no luck!
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Doesn't the refit Constitution Class have two foward and two aft torpedo launchers?
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According to dialogue in ST:VI, it has at least one, if not more aft photorp's, sure. While trying to locate Gen Chang's ship, Kirk says something about "standby aft torpedo's".
However, where are they...?
I hate inconsistancies in continuity....
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Shouldn't the aft torp launchers be behind the forward torp launchers?
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I might be remembering a different line, but wasn't it "stand by photon torpedoes"?
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There's no aft launchers on the Connie Refit or Enterprise A. Dozens of photos of the studio model would have shown it years ago.
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I saw some schematic of the proposed "last" Constitution upgrade, it had aft launchers located at the rear of the launcher "box", very logical. They should've included that for TMP, or at least TUC.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: I saw some schematic of the proposed "last" Constitution upgrade, it had aft launchers located at the rear of the launcher "box", very logical.
That would be the USS America, one of the Enterprise II class from Ships of the Star Fleet, volume one.
Of course, FASA also refitted some of the Enterprise class with aft tubes, but didn't bother to change the pictures to show this...
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mabye it would have been in that weird bump thingie under the shuttlebay? It would at least hold with the Excelsior design ethic then...
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The blueprint set I bought several years ago is the "U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701A Deck Plans", created by Strategic Design. One interesting difference I noted between them and the Shane Johnson drawings is in the Cross Section (Sheet 4 of 9). The deck plans have the turboshaft in the dorsal running in front of the intermix shaft in a single vertical tube, rather than the stairstep version in the Scott's Guide. As I said, interesing.
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I think it was in the Star Trek IV update material in 'Scott's Guide' that said something about an aft torpedo launcher being placed at the aft of the secondary hull above and behind the Shuttlebay Control Booth. Not changes to the model were evident of course.
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