Has anyone read the 'Titan' books? If so, could you please post a list of 'throw-away facts' for this vessel (# of decks, # of crew, interesting engineering or science lab tech facts, which rooms are on which decks, etc.?
Reason for needing list left as exercise for the student...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
This is from memory alpha. I'm sure if you ask around you couldn find someone who can extrapolate the # of decks based on the length and stuff.
"Despite early conjectures that the Titan would be as large as its name suggests, the stipulations of the contest reveal that the ship is approximately 450 meters long, which is notably smaller than the last two starships Enterprise, and is only slightly bigger than Voyager. The contest rules established that within the novels' continuity, the ship is a Luna-class starship, with a crew complement of 350, and is intended as an extended-mission, deep-space explorer, apparently as a result of Starfleet's efforts to get back on an exploration standing following the Dominion War."
I would guess it has just about as many decks as voyager, maybe as many as the Akira.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Didn't the guy who came up with the winning design over at the S&S boards include all those gross details with his design...? I don't remember.
--Jonah
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Jesus, I fucking hate that design so much. So fucking ugly. Sean Tourangeau has major talent, I just.,..really fucking despise his style.
At any rate, he posts over at SCN a lot, only in the DAC board there. Best place to find out is to from the guy himself.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
He's also at TrekBBS (art section) as "Titan Designer" and at scifi-meshes.com as (I think) "stourangeau".
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
There's just only so many things you can do with that configuration. Since that niche has already been overfilled, the only two options open -- as I see it -- are to do something so unconventional that the configuration almost doesn't matter, or to do a configuration that is under-represented.
And I don't mind a fleet made up entirely of one class. Think of how impressive 600 Star Destroyers would be. So I have no problem with a fleet of mostly Excelsiors and Akiras dominated by a few Galaxys. Oversimplifying, but my point is the last thing we needed was another "saucer-secondary-two-nacelles" design. For its mission, I would have been happy with a Cheyenne or a Prometheus. *shrug*
--Jonah
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Well, the writers of the Titan series specified the "saucer-secondary-two-nacelles" configuration before the design competition began. So that part of it is not exactly Tourangeau's fault.
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
I wasn't blaming him specifically. I was including S&S in that.
--Jonah
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
We had a thread or two when we were all young and inspired, about what we would do. Some of us planned to enter. I don't think any of us did...
I think we had a summary of the details from the first book in there, plus a lot of conjecture. Enjoy.
Mark
Posted by Zefram (Member # 1568) on :
Some of the ideas for the Luna-class ships found in the novels are somewhat interesting. According to the Titan series, one of the main reasons Federation starship crews are dominated by humans and human-like species is partially due to differences in environmental needs (and perhaps some social needs as well). Apparently, previous attempts to accommodate highly diverse crews failed, leading to more specialized ships. We've already seen that most ships are crewed primarily by humans, while we've also seen Vulcan-dominated starships.
Although the Luna-class ships are supposed to be the most elaborate attempt at providing for the needs of a diverse crew, the USS Titan is still slightly uncomfortable for most species. The environment in public areas has average gravity levels, humidity, oxygen content, temperature, etc., which doesn't precisely fulfill the needs of any particular species among the crew. However, the personal quarters are highly specialized, allowing crew members a comfortable refuge for at least part of the day.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
That sounds like fun, actually.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yeah. I could set my personal quarters to 40F, and live in comfort.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
And I could set the gravity to .8g during the day and 0g while I sleep! Not to mention turning down the oxygen partial pressure a bit, and a bit more at night...damn oxidation, just kills ya faster.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
It would be coll to have one of those neuro-holo-fun thingies that Capt. Ransom had in Equinox. Only updated so that it could reproduce people and situations, like a portable holodeck.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Strap me up and jack me into the Matrix... only no Agent Smith please.
Posted by Treknophile (Member # 1869) on :
I don't think my intent was clear. I've got to start drinking more Coke in the morning...
I'm not looking at details from the artist. I've already finished the exterior. Actually, when you get to know the design, it kind of grows on you (much like fungi...).
I'm looking for such details as how many labs are there, which decks they are on, how many holodecks, lounges, where the senior officer's quarters are, etc.
I held off doing Intrepid until the series was almost over just so I wouldn't contradict show-related canon details. With the Titan books, I'm hoping most of these details come out in the initial novels.
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So I have no problem with a fleet of mostly Excelsiors and Akiras dominated by a few Galaxys. Oversimplifying, but my point is the last thing we needed was another "saucer-secondary-two-nacelles" design. For its mission, I would have been happy with a Cheyenne or a Prometheus. *shrug*![[Smile]](smile.gif)