you can find markings saying '1384' and '1837'. In the TOS-R episode 'A Private Little War' there are further markings like '1300', '700' and '0', not present on the Enterprise during the time of 'Courtmartial'.
What is the meaning of those markings?
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Not entirely: They start with '0' at the deflector dish and end at the shuttle bay with 1800something. Could that be a measure of length in foot?
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: And yes, in the remastered "Court Martial," the scorched area is supposed to be the former location of Finney's ion pod before it was jettisoned.
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I don't know where from or why but I always had the idea that the ion pod was meant to be in the "sensor dome" at the base of the saucer.
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quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: I don't know where from or why but I always had the idea that the ion pod was meant to be in the "sensor dome" at the base of the saucer.
IIRC that idea originated in some fan-created blueprints from the 70s.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: There were such markings on the original studio model, IIRC. As for what they meant, if anything, I've never heard an "official" explanation.
Looking up a few backstage pics of the constitution class in the www, there are indeed markind all over the side of the engineering section!
My first impression was, those markings measure distances in feet, but I guess 1600 feet is too much for the engineering section, isn't it?
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Yeah, the refit was supposed to be 1000 feet dead, and the original was shorter.
That gives us 333 yards and a foot so it can't even be a metric equivilant, unless the measurements are only counting the enginering hull.
I would guess that they are meant to emulate plimpsole lines and so forth on current ships simply to add details.
MJ said that the design was for the user to access compants from the inside so I expect if the markings were down to him they would not correspond to components that could be accessed from the exterior of the hull, but that is just a reasoned guess.
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They might also be component numbers of pre-assembled sections for shipyard assemblers to reference.
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