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Posted by Jamaharon on :

I just picked up the latest edition of the Star Trek Magazine. It features a section on "Designing the Akira Class". When reading the text, I noticed some possible errors. In the paragraph entitled "Likeable Gunship", it mentions the shuttlebays of the Akira.

The text reads:

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"It has 15 torpedo launchers and two shuttlebays - one in the front, with three doors, and one in the back. I really got into it with this one, with the whole idea that the front bay would be the launching bay, and then to return they'd come into the back, because they'd be protected by the rest of the ship."

Interesting idea, however there is a picture on the next page of the proposed back shuttlebay that shows three doors as well. For reference purposes, here is the picture (39 k). (Notice how the rear shuttlebay doors are nearly identical to the Soveriegn's).

Now, Jeager said that the shuttles would exit in the front and return in the back. Does this mean that the shuttle bay goes all the way through the saucer? If so, this may be a very weak part of the structure of this ship.

I know the Akira is a revolutionary design, and I'd like to see what you guys and gals think about this.

On a side note, there is another image on the same page as the one above showing the Akira's torpedo launchers and bridge module. Here is the image (57 k).

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Well, the final version of the Akira ended up with two shuttlebays on the back...they're even labelled "1" and "2".

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

The saucer shuttle bay on the Galaxy class goes almost all the way to the front.

BTW: There is a 4th aft shuttlebay behind/under the bridge visible in your first picture. This is probably a shuttlebay for the stardrive section in case of a saucer seperation.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

That could be an emergency bay, with a shuttle for the captain incase the ship is about to blow up or something. Kind of like how Navy ships have a special boat while the rest of the crew gets rubberrafts. Doesn't seem very fair, but that's way it is.
Also it could be for the captains yacht, it doesn't neccessarly need to be on the bottom of the saucer.

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

I've just gotta say - how cool those pictures look...

I am now beginning to suspect that the Akira is the Nebula version of the Sovereign class... i.e. the Nebula was around before the Galaxy presumably to be a testbed for new Galaxy technologies, this also Gels with having the Akira at Utopia Planitia at the time Voyager was being built

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

I think it might just be a cargo door though.

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Posted by Sunspot (Member # 77) on :

I went downtown and picked up this issue, and after looking at the picture of the aft-end of the bridge, I think it is only a "harbor" for travel pods to dock. There are two protrusions on the "wings" of the bridge module that I see as docking ports.

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

Allright! I am just about sick and tired of hearing the same ol bs about through-decks having weak infrastructure.

Why this assumption? If the creators of this fiction deem flt travel possible, why is it impossible to imagine materials of durability beyond what we can manufacture now?

Also there is this pretty strong architectual structure called the ARCH, that can support a lot of weight--or in the case of starship inertial mass. So given that we can have srtong materials, strong architectual structures and fictituos Inertial Damping Fields and Structural Integrity Fields, no part of the ship should be drastically weaker than another.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Has anyone looked on the page right after where it says the Akira Class has 15 torpedo launchers? There is a drawing that Alex made of the front end of the Akira, showing three shuttle-like doors.

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Okay, I just looked at the picture Alex made of the aft shuttlebays on the Akira Class and compared it to the picture of the saucer section shuttlebay on the Sovereign Class, from the 1st ST: The Magazine, and they don't look anything alike. Can someone post it please? It's on page 42 with the briefing of the new shuttlecraft carried onboard the Enterprise-E.

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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

They don't have to. Compare the refit Enterprise and the Reliant.

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