If that title is for the device, an antigrav forlift, perhaps?
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I wonder what the things are it lists under the title. Maybe the names of the Work Bees?
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Given how the pairs of lines are always of equal length, I suspect they are just strings of numbers. If they were meaningful words, it would be too much a coincidence to have them all be of equal lengths, especially since letter spacing seems fixed in LCARS display fonts.
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
That looks like a cool prospect for a "floating fortress" or space battlefortress, from "1984" or "Honor Harrington". Except that it would look like that picture from all four sides, symmetrical.
Would be cool to have a dream Starfleet battlefortress stationary unit in planet orbit. 2000m to a side, ablative armor all over the place. I'd have to think for a while about proper armament though...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The bottom 'word' in the middle column... has what looks to be an 'E' at its beginning... so that could be Enterprise... the length fits... and that could mean what destinations the work bees are headed for??
Now what about the top 'word'!?!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Timo: Erm... Each of those "pairs" of lines is just one line.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Oops! So the line height is about 1/3 of the headline height, not 1/6?
Dang. I was completely fooled, by the seemingly good resolution of the workbee image itself, into thinking that I could tell one line from two.
If those are single lines, then it's just within the realm of plausibility that Okuda could have had the energy and patience to actually invent and type in nine meaningful words, instead of just leaning on his keyboard nine times...
I tried looking for this picture in "The Continuing Mission", but either I misremembered and it wasn't there, or then I skipped the crucial page. Will look again soon.
Timo Saloniemi
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
This picture is NOT in the CM. Only two stellar maps, a nanite schematic, the Barzan treaty, the Charybdis mission and the S.S. Mariposa.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
I think I can make out the letter "E." It's the first letter of the bottom line. Then there could be an "X," but I'm not sure.
Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
That doesn't look like a workbee...more like a cutaway of a phaser bank.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
It's the back of a Workbee. Besides, I doubt a cutaway of a phaser bank would be labeled "Cargo Management".
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Depends on what you're carrying, I suppose.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
It's a workbee from aft, with the cargo manipulator arms attached (those things on the lower sides). It's from the Motion Picture blueprints.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
You can see the arms (in their 'up' position) to either side on the bottom.. they are partially hidden by the bulk of the craft.
I doubt those are anything but Okuda numerals.. here let me make some.. 34098574305983409483503498 3453405 36456 879 623 57658
I would love if they were names though. In the novel 'Dreadnought!" Piper observes the workbees on the old Enterprise are named Zipper Fly, Dante and Gray Matter and combat sleds named Polliwog and Wooden Shoe. They are probably named by the operator. Great fun if you like to catalog that sort of thing!
