DS9--full capacity

[RobertScorpio]

Sometimes I am not sure if the size of DS9 comes through in the way it was filmed..I have never got a DS9 tech book, but is there any estimation out there as to how many people are on DS9 at given time?

I ask because the 'inner tube' doesn't really look that big. And in the few episodes two or three ships are docked there, it looks even smaller..

so..just the numbers..

How many people can be on DS9 at one time???

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Jono]

According to the DS9TM the Cardassians built are 452 large residential quarters and 231 smaller quarters in the habitat ring. Though some of these spaces were converted to other uses when Starfleet took over.

There were also 343 additional quarters in the mid-core to deal with overflow from the habitat ring and emergency accommodation.

Didn't see a set figure of people it could accommodate, but I didn't go through it thoroughly.

 

[RobertScorpio]

According to the DS9TM the Cardassians built are 452 large residential quarters and 231 smaller quarters in the habitat ring. Though some of these spaces were converted to other uses when Starfleet took over.

There were also 343 additional quarters in the mid-core to deal with overflow from the habitat ring and emergency accommodation.

Didn't see a set figure of people it could accommodate, but I didn't go through it thoroughly.

If you numbers are correct, and they sound right to me, then it really isn't all that big. Hell, k-7 looks like it might hold more people..

Rob

 

[DanCPA]

Well, those were crew quarters... there was also the promenade and various storage areas

 

[LeadHead]

In "Sanctuary" Odo stated that the station only holds 7 thousand people

 

[Kinggodzillak]

I think O'Brien told Tosk that it only held about 300...

 

[LeadHead]

^ That was how many people lived on DS9 at the time. That number went way up as time went on. I remember in "Field of Fire" Odo or Sisko saying that there were over a thousand Starfleet officers aboard.

 

[shatastrophic]

Memory Alpha lists the crew 300 up to 1200, and it's max capacity at 7000. The Enterprise D had almost as many and I think i've heard her max capacity was similiar.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Memory Alpha lists the crew 300 up to 1200, and it's max capacity at 7000. The Enterprise D had almost as many and I think i've heard her max capacity was similiar.

If so that seems rather small too me...

Rob
Scorpio

 

[shatastrophic]

Memory Alpha lists the crew 300 up to 1200, and it's max capacity at 7000. The Enterprise D had almost as many and I think i've heard her max capacity was similiar.

If so that seems rather small too me...

Rob
Scorpio

Yeah shes pretty small as far as starbases go. She's nothing in size compared to the standard mushroom base we see in Earth orbit in the movies and thru out TNG.

 

[nx1701g]

^ Exactly. It seems to me that the Starship Garage from the regular starbases is about the same size of the entire Deep Space Nine station.

 

[SoM]

Well, post-occupation DS9 was owned by the Bajorans, not the Federation - the Feds didn't intend for any quadrant-level stuff to happen there, just some minor skirmishes with the Cardassians at most. Even when the wormhole was discovered, it became a service station, not a destination in its' own right.

The Klingon & Dominion wars changed things, of course. But actually building a replacement station (besides how much it would have ticked off the Bajorans) wouldn't have been worth the effort.

 

[Captain W Riker]

Huh, I always thought of DS9 as being pretty massive.

 

[cultcross]

I think DS9 takes up a deceptive amount of space for its actual capacity, because of it's design. The actual internal usable volume of a station of that design is going to be significantly less than the solid 'mushroom' Federation design. And it doesn't surprise me that it would approximate that of a Galaxy-class starship.

 

[erastus25]

I think DS9 takes up a deceptive amount of space for its actual capacity, because of it's design. The actual internal usable volume of a station of that design is going to be significantly less than the solid 'mushroom' Federation design. And it doesn't surprise me that it would approximate that of a Galaxy-class starship.

A lot of the internal volume was dedicated to ore processing too, and was sealed off during the Federation's occupation of the station.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I think DS9 takes up a deceptive amount of space for its actual capacity, because of it's design. The actual internal usable volume of a station of that design is going to be significantly less than the solid 'mushroom' Federation design. And it doesn't surprise me that it would approximate that of a Galaxy-class starship.

A lot of the internal volume was dedicated to ore processing too, and was sealed off during the Federation's occupation of the station.

Yeah, I could see that. But if they had taken all that closed off area and had remodeled it I wonder how many more people could have been station there. I mean, it is one of the most 'important' space ports in all of the Federation. Seems like everytime they get attacked they don't have enough onboard support..

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Trekwatcher]

The non-canonical Terok Nor novels suggest the station can hold 5000 people.

 

[SoM]

A lot of the internal volume was dedicated to ore processing too, and was sealed off during the Federation's occupation of the station.

Certainly in S1 that was all sealed off, but I thought they gradually reclaimed that as time went on, yes? [Certainly, IIRC that was the starting point of Civil Defence - they were about to start transforming some of the o-p space into something useful]

 

[erastus25]

A lot of the internal volume was dedicated to ore processing too, and was sealed off during the Federation's occupation of the station.

Certainly in S1 that was all sealed off, but I thought they gradually reclaimed that as time went on, yes? [Certainly, IIRC that was the starting point of Civil Defence - they were about to start transforming some of the o-p space into something useful]

That would make sense. But I can't remember if they were actually planning to convert or just checking it out for potential conversion. I kind of decided it never happened when it was never mentioned again.

 

[SoM]

That would make sense. But I can't remember if they were actually planning to convert or just checking it out for potential conversion. I kind of decided it never happened when it was never mentioned again.

Well, DS9 getting a weapons system installed was never mentioned until it had already happened and was being used (and that would take space - both for storage of torpedoes, and for stuff displaced by the actual phaser/etc installations themselves).

Certainly, I doubt the ore processing space got turned into quarters to any great extent - Memory Alpha says that Civil Defence opens with...

In one of the station's ore processing units, where O'Brien and Jake are deleting old Cardassian files from the computers as part of an effort to convert the facility into a deuterium refinery.

But there's any number of things that space could have been used for - hell, when DS9 was the Ninth Fleet HQ, imagine the number of spares that would be needed to keep that number of ships in shape when they're under constant Dominion assault!