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*notices that starships seem to be powered by Smiley faces now...*
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About that side door: on the Voyager, all the docking ports on the primary hull rim are inset this way. Rick S has suggested that these doors can admit bulky cargo (which would be a good idea, since they apparently *are* used for cargo loading - note how a cargo bay was de-Borgified in "Scorpion II" by opening the side door). It would make quite a bit of sense for the whole inset area to be a sliding door, with the docking port moving along with it.
This doesn't mean one should drive shuttlecraft through this door, even if it were big enough. Not all the big rolling or sliding doors on a real warship are for taking in helicopters or boats or ACVs, even when big enough.
Given the nature of the Pasteur's mission, I think the ship could make do with a *drastically* smaller computer. Perhaps there wouldn't even be a centralized computer core in the spherical hull section at all - it could be wholly dedicated to the mission, and all the engineering paraphernalia stowed away in the secondary hull.
If the sphere needs to carry support systems, these could be on the decks that lack windows, a bit above the lower phaser level on the lower hemisphere, and on deck 8 and 11 or so on the upper hemisphere.
If the ship is going to receive lots of casualties, I suggest lots and lots of transporter platforms, too. And the shuttlebay could have large adjoining triage facilities and be optimized for rapid offloading of the wounded. Say, there could be a priority turboshaft from the shuttlebay to the surgery decks in the main hull.
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About that side door: on the Voyager, all the docking ports on the primary hull rim are inset this way. Rick S has suggested that these doors can admit bulky cargo (which would be a good idea, since they apparently *are* used for cargo loading - note how a cargo bay was de-Borgified in "Scorpion II" by opening the side door). It would make quite a bit of sense for the whole inset area to be a sliding door, with the docking port moving along with it.
When I first saw Scorpion II, I knew this was an error... the effects shot for the ejecting of the borg from that hatch is SO wrong. The borg are WAY too tiny for that 'hatch'. The round hatch is a docking-bay hatch - as seen used in "Caretaker" when docked at DS9.
The effects guys stuffed up. That area is only roughly a deck high. They've crammed god-knows-what into that circle area.
And as for the Olympic, I reckon the saucer... err sphere can detatch in emergencies. (It'd look cool!)
I also think there might be the possibility of having two warp-cores a la Voyager. (Don't ask me why!)
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This is just terrific work. I would agree that most of the main mission-specific areas would be in the sphere. I can even see a whole deck devoted to a large scale trauma ward of some kind. I could even see the captain's quarters being housed in the secondary hull on this ship. Perhaps those four large windows in the lowest row at the front tip of the engineering hull?
Whatever the case, you're doing a bang-up job so far.
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