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Posted by Deep6 on :

I recently noticed while rewatching "The Way Of The Warrior, Part 2", that while under attack, jadzia reports damage on decks 2,3, and 5. This is contradictiry to the DS9TM (I know, I know, its full of mistakes) which states the Defiant has only 4 decks. Thoughts?

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Posted by Voyager on :

Isn't it mentioned somewhere that the Defiant has 2 sub-decks in the nacelle area?

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

click on the image

On this view of the master system display you can see the Defiant-class has only 4 decks.

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

The Okudagram is the most prominent evidence, while a dialogue can rather be ignored.

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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

Well, we've seen another reference to a Deck 5 when Sisko takes a turbolift in that Iconian portal episode. Unlike the Defiant, which is constantly undergoing upgrades, the MSD never changes; hence maybe we could assume that the engineers maintain the well-known arrangement of systems out of habit, especially since this is only a systems status display rather than a detailed graphic map.

Boris

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I suppose I prefer to think there are five decks, with the bottommost being just an itty bitty one. That way it contradicts neither.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, to change Bernd's words around: "The dialogue is the most prominent evidence, while an Okudagram can rather be ignored." :-)

IMO, the MSD is not accurate. We already know that, on other MSDs, appearances don't necessarily mean anything. They aren't cut on the centerline, turboshafts are extremely simplified, Voyager's nacelles float freely in space, etc. I think deck 5 is unimportant enough to the engineers that they removed it from the MSD. I also think the space between the decks is much higher than average. This was left out, too. The engineers do this so that each deck looks larger, and they don't have to try to cram stuff in.

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

It the Uncertainty Princible and the theory that the Observer directly influences the Observed. In that case, the Defiant normally has just four decks, except in cases where damage is observed on deck five and a computer command to deliver the turbolift has been executed to deck five, whereupon deck five exists.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

*likes what TSN said*

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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

I mean, Sisko did say "Deck 5". If he doesn't know all the decks of the Defiant, turbolift should warn him that the deck doesn't exist rather than merely assuming he means Deck 4. Is Dax' readout in error? Likely not. We stride down to the Engineering and ask someone where Deck 5 is on the display, and we would probably be told that it's the little crawlspace below Deck 4, which we can open up by removing the floor of Deck 4 and walk into.

Boris

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

A crawlspace where a turbolift can get to??

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

It seems to be as likely as any other possibility.

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

*likes Cargile's theory about Schroedinger's Defiant*

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

As in, de Broglie's evil accomplice in their atom game?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Deck five is full-size, there's just hardly anything there, so they don't show it on the MSD.

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Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :

A few more bits of evidence for the fray...

1.) The turbolift display screens actually show six decks; of course, they also put all sorts of things in strange locations. While not neccessarily accurate in the details, it is interesting to note that apparently different members of the art department had different ideas of the ship's size.

2.) The MSD is scaled at 110 meters in length, while the Defiant is officially 171 meters long. Depending on which interpretation you believe, then four, five, and six decks are all believable. With a 171 meter Defiant, of course, the MSD's entire layout is thrown out of whack. But, we're not debating that particular issue at the moment... :-)

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