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I didn't like the stair-step arrangement, so I placed the shaft forward of the intermix chamber (warp core). Seemed more logical at the time. On the next deck down, the horizontal shaft swung aft and to starboard, then ran aft - starboard of centerline. (if you look at the STMP Engine Room, the aft portion of Main Engineering had a vertical bulkhead running along the starboard side - while on the port side you could see the upper curve of the secondary hull meet the deck. The fore-aft horizontal shaft was (in my opinion) behind that bulkhead).
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Not to be the Doubting Thomas, but who are you, exactly, "Treknophyle"? Very curious to know since you don't list a real name in your sig-line. Do you also go by "TrekAce" at Hobby Talk?
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Treknophile, I agree that your turbolift plan is a good one, but it toesn't need to be that way. If the turbolift goes strait down the front of the neck, it could also go down the front of the engineering deck, which would put a door right in the mysterous forward hallway, coming out of engineering. In ST:II Spock makes a big show of going down to deck 14 (forward side), then taking the ladder down to Engineering (15), so he can commit suicide and get out of the show.
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I agree there are a lot of possible layouts. Mine seemed to make sense to me. I didn't like the idea of a turbo shaft going down the Secondary Hull forward of the warp core - left little room for the Deflector/Sensor machinery.
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I plan to tackle the main deflector later, but I can't imagine it really taking a whole lot of space.
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David Schmidt? Kewel! I've heard of you in "trekno-circles", then. Very kewel. I take it that you're who the Schmidt class was named for, as well as the editor of "StarFleet Prototype"?
If so, awesome work.
Sorry to go on like a fan-boy, but I am. Plus, it's always nice to get such fantatsically produced work as yours and that of MasterCom DataCenter out there. Us Fan-Boys and -Girls need something to drool on, after all. ;-)
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Now if the turboshaft AND the vertical intermix bottle (along with the entire Engineering set) were moved aft so that the lift station in "mysterious forward hallway" coincided with the "staircased" sternmost shaft of that picture...
...then we'd solve the mystery of the long forward corridor from ST:TMP, create enough room for extensive deflector machinery at the secondary hull bow, AND leave maximal room at the torpedo deck level forward parts, in case we want to squeeze two side-by-side torp bay sets in there. Plus, it would make perfect sense that most people in ST2 and ST3 depart towards the *aft* part of the torpedo deck when "dismissed".
The minus side is that the vertical intermix bottle would have to be "staircased" as well. Or then truncated just above Main Engineering (like it is aboard TNG-era starships). And the lower part of that bottle would either have to be truncated (our view of it in TMP was forced-perspective anyway), or shafted through the main cargo bay and the arboretum, which requires a bit of additional trickery but isn't completely impossible.
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