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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] One could speculate that the gangway machinery is rather bulky and requires half a deck's worth of free space above and below. After all, if this is a relic of obsolete traditions anyway, then perhaps it is intended to do what the comparable fixture aboard the NX-01 does: directly interface with other vessels, including alien ones. It could be that the main gangway in fact is the most versatile docking adapter aboard the ship, and can extend out like an airport boarding tube if needed. It is well positioned for its role, at the outer extremity of the ship (and of other designs as well, like the Miranda class). It can probably be assumed that the TOS ship and the E-D had comparable fixtures, just better camouflaged. We did see the E-D dock to DS9 using some sort of a saucer rim fixture (although this time, it was starboard - a step away from tradition and towards pragmatism, with a bilaterally symmetric layout?). Perhaps once again, the main gangway was better suited for freedom-kissing alien docking adapters than any of the other docking ports aboard the ship. Alternately, there is only one deck on the NCC-1701 rim, like the windows and the gangway suggest. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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