What issue is that referring to?

Also there is at least one fly-by in the first episode where you can see the underside of the saucer of the CGI model.

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Boris

As for Equinox herself, could this thing look anymore like a bloated duck? Anyway, we can start making some guesses on this class's capabilities. First, front view, she definatly has two forward torpedo launchers, one on either side of the upper deflector.

Top view, what is the thing inbetween the shuttlebay and the impulse engine along the spine? It looks like some kind of alcove, since the area is obviously raised, and the dark area below appears to be sunken in. Maybe aft torpedo launchers? I'm also guessing this ship only has 4 transporters or less since there are only 6 transporter pads, 4 fore, 2 aft.

Bottom view, very odd. First, what is the small area at the very front where the ships name/registry is located? Some kind of add-on to the shield-grid? Moving back, why is the lower sensor dome (I am assuming that is meant to be a sensor dome) green? Farther back still, on either side of the main ventral strip, there appear to be rather large cargo doors. Maybe for loading super-heavy cargo equipment? Another thing to notice, no escape pods on the ventral side. They are all dorsal.

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The Voyager herself looks...well rounded likewise. The Equinox could take some weight off the forward secondary hull.

I kept looking for the forward launchers in the area just above the secondary hull deflector, because that's where the MSD puts them. Then I saw the two rather obvious tubes - another case where the finished model contradicts the MSD.

The raised area are the aft launchers, most likely. There is a prelim schematic (unlabeled) which shows two tubes protruding out.

The area on the front bottom where the registry is located corresponds to the horizontal part of the saucer deflector - maybe it's a removable sensor array?

I count 20 pods total. With a crew of about 80, that works out to a minimum of four people per pod. They look like Voyager's pods which have a capacity of at least six people.

Are transporter emitters the yellowish rectangles on each side of the bridge escape pods? They are yellow on Voyager.

Also, what's the little alcove on the ventral side of the tail? There is also an aft tractor beam emitter between the nacelle pylons.

Boris

Some thoughts about the Nova-class though:

1. The large "cargo doors" that the359 mentioned actually look like landing-strut doors and it would coincide with the MSD, which gives the Nova-class landing struts.
One question arises though; where are the doors for the aft landing-struts?

2. On the Aeroshuttle, we can clearly make out aft impulse vents and stubby warp nacelles on the sides that we couldn't make out before. This tells us that's it's really a shuttle of some sort (Aeroshuttle?) This leads me to wonder: Is every part of this ship adorably chunky?

3. The sensor dome reminds us of the green glowing Borg enhancements of the Delta-Flyer, doesn't it? It looks cool anyway.

4. The aft alcove just above the shuttlebay is most definitely aft torpedo launcers. It would just be a wise design move to put them there. Hey Boris, do you have any aft views so we can verify this?

5. The whole Deck 1 area is the best part of the whole ship. It's a design not unlike the Defaints', but flowing and oblong so we get a sense of "speed". The port/starboard windows on Deck 1 are probably the Conference lounge and Ready room.

Although they might sound naive to all you senior members, those are my thoughts on the subject. Thanks for listening.
Chris