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New info: Defiant designed at 171m and another perspective
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] The DS9TM basically ended the flow of "apocryphal" (invented by people who do the show) information, barring the few datapoints in "Starship Spotter" which do not exactly fall into this category. Basically, everybody I've talked to (Okuda, Sternbach, Hutzel, Stipes) agrees that the ship is 171m long, including Drexler who, according to Rick Sternbach, said that the MSD and the plans shouldn't be treated as a scale drawing. Officially, we're supposed to assume that the Defiant has four decks and looks roughly like the MSD and the plans, except that it's bigger. While there is some canonical evidence for 171m, we can't rely on the visuals because they merely tell us that the ship is somewhere between 60-170m long and looks like the studio model (most of the time.) That's why we must look into the ship's interior for evidence. I'm sure Sisko wouldn't want an inaccurate MSD on his bridge and in the engineering drawings from "Shattered Mirror". That's why a 110m size is canonically inevitable, and that's my final conclusion on the subject. Fortunately, the VFX average to roughly the same value. As for the decks, I think that, from a strictly analytic perspective, it is inevitable that Deck numbers in some cases are different from level numbers. It would explain every time a writer misses the deck count (i.e. Deck 26 or Deck 78) or misplaces a location, not to mention a bunch of incorrect door signs. So, the Defiant most likely has four levels containing at least six, possibly ten decks (justifying the '0' at the beginning of the door signs, 02 05, 03 04, etc.), which are the technobabbly-complicated equivalent of today's "quarterdeck" or "poop deck". The section numbers might actually indicate discrete areas serving the same function, so you could technically have several Decks 2 all over the ship. This explains how Engineering can be on Deck 2, Section 5 (02 05) but not on Deck 2, Section 01 (which I theorize is sometimes abbreviated to "Deck 2", and corresponds to the area sealed off in "Starship Down"). It explains how "03 05" can be on the bridge level turbolift doors. It explains the three references to Deck 5 without the need to modify the MSD. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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