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As you might have guessed from this thread's title, I'm going to ask you what the size (estimate) for the mushroom-shaped starbases is (both 'small' TMP one and Starbse 74).
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There was no starbase in TMP. Unless you mean the upside down "Regula I" office thing. Mushroom Space dock was first seen in STIII, and also in STVI (I know the inside part was in IV and V, but I don't think there were any external shots of it).
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There was an exterior shot in IV, because I remember seeing the lights blink out when the probe went by.
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The docking bay on Starbase 375 held the stolen Jem"Hadar bug with very little room to spare. Starbase 375 was a "mushroom" station minus the long tanks on the bottom (or top?) Using this as a calculation of size, the starbase shouldn't be very big at all.
Of course, other shots of the station with starships in the background made it look quite larger than it should be using the above method.
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Starbase 375 is not a mushroom starbase. It's an Office Complex/Regula 1 starbase without the Regula 1 bottom extension.
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There was also a big-arsed mushroom station at UP where the Enterprise-D was built... you saw it in the episode "Booby Trap" well the inside of it anyway...
I've got a pic... wait a second...
OK nope, I can't find it - can somebody post the picture of the Geordi looking out those large windows at the skeleton of the E-D?
Here is a shot from Starbase 74 or the one from "Remember Me"
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From what I heard the mushroom spacedock that was orbiting earth was approx. 3.5 to 4 miles in diameter and 5 miles tall. As for starbase 74, it could be the same size as the earth spacedock. Starbase 74 might have simply had larger doors for larger ships. Just because a galaxy class ship could dock there doesn't mean the entire starbase is larger. All it means to me is that starbase 74 has larger doors.
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74 *is* larger. In an exterior shot with the Ent-D and the station, the Ent-D appeared to be just as big as the old Enterprise in the old shot with Spacedock.
BTW, how many (kilo)meters is a mile? I'm accustomed to the metric system.
And I don't think the mushroom starbase model never got a 'door-upgrade'. In the Star Trek Universetm I think it will be more logical that it had its door enlarged, and that overal size is the same.
But that's just my opinion.
Somebody count those windows and check that for me! I don't have the episode on tape...
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I haven't posted in a while, but now I'm back! Ready to bore you with more technical related minutae! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ahem.
Now, to the topic at hand, I don't believe the "mushroom" base ever got any changes to its doors. I never actually saw the episode with Starbase 74 in it, but I've seen screenshots, and the door remains proportionally the same size to the rest of the station superstructure between the STNG episode and ST-III. So the station was built bigger.
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::gasps:: You mean it isn't REAL? AHH! No, seriously, I understand they made a minor continuity error. In the trek world, we just have the say they make them in multiple sizes. "We have here our Mark I models, built to fit small dogs and rodents, and over here is the Mark IV . . ."
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