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I have a question about the Excelsior class. The aft end of the secondary hull...what the heck is that 'cavern'? I originally thought it was the shuttlebay, but this has since been disproven. The cutaway views we've seen of the class shed no light on the subject whatsoever. So what's under there?
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quote: I think he means the bay UNDER the ship.
But the thing under the ship isn't a bay! Werent you listening? And did you read Templar's mind to know which one he was referring to?
He didn't say he didn't not think that wasn't it.
The Shuttlebay is the second dome on top of the primary hull between the warp nacelles.
I thought the lower hull recess was where maverick Admirals could store their personal yacht, a stolen Klingon bird-of-prey, after commandeering their old ship, destroying it, and then getting dragged into the mirror universe and commandeering our Excelsior to fight an invasion planned by their counterparts. *whispers* Oh that never happened?! Mike W. Barr must be crushed..
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I thought that the Excelsior-class docking bay was located at the very end of the secondary hull, on the top in a similar position to that of the Constitution- and later Ambassador-classes. You know, located behind the lump that connects the warp pylons to the hull . . .
. . . or am I completely off tangent?
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Or we could ask the next best thing: Okuda.
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You mean Bill George? I doubt even he knew - I figure he put it there and filled it with random greeblies to account to make it look interesting.
On the Enterprise-B, the MSD did not label it as anything specific. However, various fan drawings have pegged it as another shuttlebay, the cargo bay, or the tractor beam emitter housing.
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There's no reason they couldn't both be shuttlebays. Or one a shuttlebay and one, as Mark suggested, a Cargo bay, like those things on the bottom of the Galaxy that we never get to see in action.
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