This shares quite a few features with the officialer E-D deck plans, but there are notable differences too. Including, for example, a five-storey mall, a movie theatre, larger shuttle facilities, plenty of hydroponics space, and more. I'm sure there's even a brig in here somewhere.
Point being, that compared with Sternbach's plans this offers an interetnig lok into Probert's ideas for the ship, as well as what the ship looked like in the minds of the designers during its initial phases. Cool!
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Very cool. Generations was on last night on Sci-Fi channel. I still don't understand why they felt the big D had to go after only one movie...there was so much more to be seen, and I think the Borg taking over familiar sections of a ship we've watched for 7+ years would have also had some more impact with the audience. Ah well, no time for ifs.
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Sweet. On the fourth picture, in the side cutaway, what's the room listed right below the holodecks in the forward saucer? Looks like "Tursiops' Quaerters". What intrigues me is that there's an apostrophe after the first word meaning that it belongs to whatever that first word is. An unseen character perhaps?
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Tursiops Truncatus - the bottlenose dolphin. They're the quarters for the pelagic members of the crew, indicating that this sort of thing was implied long before "The Perfect Mate".
Say - if the aquatic Xindi survive the story arc...
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Facinating, the GCS is classified as a Mk VIX Heavy Cruiser instead of an Explorer. The Bussard ramscoops are replaced by "First-Stage Subspace Field Generators". There's actually a reason why shuttle bay 2 is smaller than shuttle bay 3...
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quote: Say - if the aquatic Xindi survive the story arc...
Then we'll get a story about the trials and tribulations of the first half-dolphin, half-Zindi in Starfleet.
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Well, one thing about these plans that beats out the later ones: they remembered to put something under the arboretum windows. Of course, it's a lounge and a casino, but at least the feature wasn't forgotten completely.
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quote:Originally posted by Guardian 2000: I am confused by his idea of the bridge. Unless I'm mistaken, he has a hallway behind the ready room instead of empty space.
I think that "hallway" of yours represents superstructure of the raised bridge and that small rectangle is the window Picard gazes out of wistfully at the end of so many episodes.
I do think the Ready Room itself is far too large though.
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You know, G2k, if you have questions about those plans you can go over to TrekBBS and ask their creator
Anyway, I already asked him why there's a corridor outside Ready Room, and the response basically was that areas outside the bridge are one half-deck below the bridge, so bottom of Picards window is almost flush with the top surface of the ceiling of the next deck.
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I believe that's consistent with most other interpretations of the blueprints. The Observation Lounge is on this slightly sunken level, IIRC. There is a ramp down to this level offscreen in several places, the corridor to the lounge being one.
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I like the many multi-deck areas shown on these plans. That was the one thing that irked me about Sternbach's plans was that just about everything was squeezed into one deck. And did anyone catch the 4-deck high fountain on the aft neck? Also, he included the Sphinx work pods!
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I was going to ask what that big thing in "shuttle maintenance" was. So, that's one of those work pods? Hmmm, no, that definitely isn't one, I just realized they're the smaller ones. So, what is it?
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If you look on the 5th image, in the main shuttlebay, there are several long, narrow pod looking things. Then, towards the aft, there's one of the pods with what looks to be some kind of warp sled attached to it. It looks amazingly like a runabout.
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