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Originally posted by Griffworks:
It's a graphic that Matt Jeffries did for the original configuration of the ship during the concept phase of the series - when it was supposed to be about half the length we know it to be now (947ft). I believe this is mentioned in "The Making of Star Trek", but might be wrong. That version of the ship only contained about 8 decks, I believe, and what we know of as the "B/C Deck" was going to contain the bridge, IIRC.

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Perhaps related to this diagram...




...that appeared on a small bridge screen (and moved to Auxilliary Control in "Day of the Dove").

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Originally posted by Guardian 2000:
That's a very interesting thought. Precedent for such a notion occurs in ST3, when Chekov's security screen shows the ship in TOS configuration.

To be sure, I don't like the idea that the utter failure to update records of the ship's structure is common, but otherwise it's an interesting notion.

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Originally posted by Harry:
It's a pressure diagram. Probably made by mathematicians. They don't care about the physical reality. Hell, they'd rather have made a screen of incomprehensible numbers out of it, but Starfleet's console usability guidelines demanded a pretty diagram.

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