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You can take a look in the DS9 TM but I doubt you have it because if you did then you would be asking this. For general specifications of the Danube class runabout then you can take a look at: www.dtl.com
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That cockpit configuration doesn't look quite right to me. IIRC, the transportaer pads aren't behind a dorr, they're open to the forward compartment. You have to walk behind the pads to get to a door. There are also replicators on angled walls in the forward compartment.
Jake and Ezri went to some kind of midships compartment for their chat and raq'd'gino when they went looking for the Orb of the Emissary.
The lab modules look essentially correct according to the DS9:TM, but the aft compartment is also a little off as compared with "Timescape" TNG.
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Looks just fine to me.. After the fourth season, the Runabout interior set was reconfigured to put the transporter booth behind the aft doors - yes, there are doors back there. They're just open all the time. Instead of the booth, they put a "tactical console" where they usually control the transporters.
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Yeah. In fact, just yesterday I saw "Treachery, Faith and the Great River," and when Odo beams back onto the Rio Grande, he then enters through those doors onto the bridge of the runabout. I remember thinking it was unusual!
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OK. Well, I wasn't sure. It's been awhile since I've seen the new interior. I was just positive there was more up front, like the replicator on a slanty wall somewhere by the gangways.
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Let's all go watch "Chimera" again. We got some good panning shots of the Runabout interior as Laas was boarding.
Correct about the aft compartment, though. There should be a couch along the aft bulkhead below the windows. I'm going to go watch "Timescape" again and guestimate some distances...
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About the aft compartment - I correspond with the author of the plans - he refers to his version of the aft-compartment as being de-TARDISed. In other words, he couldn't find room to fit all that was shown of the aft compartment within the dimensions of the runabout so he compromised and tried to keep the spirit of what was shown on screen.
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Well.. the exterior dimentions match up with the Micro Machine runabout, not sure how accurate the MM version is, but they match pretty well. I just watched the Voyager Episode "non Sequitar", and in that runabout, there was no tactical station.. I also dont remember a tactical station or doors in front of the runabout Odo was piloting when the rogue Weyoun was with him. (cant remember Ep name)And that was a later DS9 episode.
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The runabouts up until "Treachery" had the transporters located slightly more forward, almost on level with the side doors, in addition to not being partitioned off by that door-equipped internal bulkhead. That location of the pads would have allowed for an "antechamber" between the bridge and the module area even in this early runabout version.
The "antechamber" is necessary for a couple of reasons. One, it's where those side windows aft of the side doors must open (they don't open to the flight deck, and they are forward of the module area). Two, the wall between the flight deck and the aft parts of the ship has had two different doorway configurations: one with a two-half sliding door on the ship centerline, and one with (single-half IIRC) sliding doors to both sides. Now, the latter arrangement is impossible if the ship is supposed to have a central corridor going aft between the modules and there is no antechamber...
Placing the toilet in the antechamber, as in those blueprints, sounds like a good idea to me. It would be really inconvenient to have it in one of the detachable modules, if that module wasn't carried on every flight! And the toilet can't fit to the TARDIS-sized aft lounge, either.
Hmm. Frankly, I think the aft lounge was extended into the module area in the specific runabout flown by the TNG heroes in "Interface". That would explain the dimensions, as well as the fact that there was again this doorway problem: a sliding door on the centerline of the ship opened forward of the aft lounge, and revealed a solid wall, with a transverse corridor going port and starboard! There wouldn't be room for such a corridor unless the aft modules were appropriated for it. (Naturally, TPTB couldn't show the central corridor because they couldn't afford to build that set, so they had to put that wall in there, even if it made little sense.)
All this said, I think the blueprints under discussion show slightly too large interiors and a slightly too small exterior. Not by much, but I think one could afford a slight rescaling so that those side doors would actually open to telephone-booth-sized airlocks, and the aft lounge would be very slightly larger...
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