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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Is there a standard deck height for starships? That's the question I got in the mail. Here's how I answered:

Using the Galaxy-class ship as an example, I took the 195.26 meters height and divided by 42. The answer is a little long, rounded to 4.65 meters each deck. Then converted metric to english, 1 meter = 3.28 feet. I get 15.25 feet. That's too high, and when we see the crew walking through the corridors it looks more like 7 feet or 7.5 ft. The rest of the space that 8 ft could have crawlspace for jefferies tubes and support, along with circuitry, etc.

This still seems inconsistant, and the question of standard deck height unanswered. I brought this up because I thought some one here might know.

Hobbes
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

No, there is no such creature. Deck height varies from ship to ship, and even varies within a single ship.

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Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

Be careful when taking dimensions directly from the DS9 tech manual. The Galaxy class is only about 140 meters tall when measured off a schematics (137.5 according to the SciPubTech poster). That's a height of something over 3m per deck.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

All bow to the Queen of high decks: The Intrepid Class, with decks that are about 4,5m high!!

Seriously: most decks are between 3 and 4m high, depending on what you put in between them.

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