^ True, but Rok doesn't seem to have much trouble moving around the ship, does she?
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Reminds me of old Diane Duane Star Trek novels, where a Defender-class starship was designed for elephant-sized nonhumanoids. It was a mile long and had decks connected by ramps for them to slither up and down.
Animation is the one time they could really go mad on ship design if they wanted.
Animation is the one time they could really go mad on ship design if they wanted.
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Lactrans?
I doubt it: they didn't seem likely to join the Federation any time soon.
Funny how the Official Size was closer to my 1st estimate, but my 2nd & 3rd estimate were much larger.
My favorite shot.Though tbh there's really only one comparison anyone should care about.
What's that little ship down in the corner?
The U.S.S. Protostar is probably Trek's best looking ship.
Until it transforms, because that's a lil' too dumb. But damn, she pretty.
Until it transforms, because that's a lil' too dumb. But damn, she pretty.
I've never been a super-big fan of the pointy arrowhead designs that started cropping up in the post-Voyager world, but I do like the Protostar, without a doubt and, if I'm honest, I always had a bit of a soft spot for the Prometheus too.
The Protostar is probably the sleekest and the ultimate late 24th century starship design. Small, compact, fast, powerful and smooth lines.
With the ProtoStar stated by the producers to be 139 meters, it's definitely smaller than the NX-01, which is 230 meters in length.
The ProtoStar is even smaller than the length of the USS Defiant, which despite scaling continuity issues, is commonly accepted to be 170 meters in length.
The USS ProtoStar, if analogous to real world sports cars, would be closer to a Mazda Miata or Lotus Elise.
I wonder what its standard crew complement would be like?
Ships like the 389m Constitution class seem small when meant to house 400 people, but when put side by side with 20th century seagoing aircraft carriers of the same size that have thousands of Humans aboard...
Have you been inside an actual aircraft carrier? I have, they're CRAMPT as eff and almost maze like.
So many manual tasks / labor needs to be done.
In the future, alot more automation & Android / Holographic helpers would reduce the total number of biological crewmen needed to operate the vessel.
Depending on the amount of decks the ship has, and which portions of the ship are actually for crew habitation (mainly just the saucer because most of the secondary (and aft section of the) hull is occupued by the shuttle bay with vehicle replicator (industrial grade replicator), engineering and Proto Core + Proto Warp/Transwarp nacelle.
It seems to me the saucer has about 3 or 4 decks suitable for crew habitation.
That said, I would say the ship would be suited for about 20 to 40 people... aka betwen 5 and 10 people per deck.
Smaller ships are easier to max out in crew amount vs larger ships I'd imagine... but then again, with the UFP having just about a Trillion individuals running around...
and assuming just between 1-5%, if not 10% (which really goes from 10 billion to 100 billion) of everyone in UFP being in Starfleet, the UFP has a HUGE number of personnell to choose from and man a massive fleet... so it REALLY shouldn't be too difficult to fill 100 000 ships to capacity (or at least, larger than what they tend to hold with enough space for humanitarian missions (such as relief, evacuation, etc.) and still have MASSIVE leftover for planets, starbases, etc.
Given how huge UFP is and having shipbuilding facilities similar to Utopia Planitia (and ones around Earth) in ever UFP member planet solar system... just 10 drydocks per solar system member planet (there are over 150 of them in late 24th century) being assigned to build a given ship class (Say a galaxy class) would give you 1500 Galaxy class ships in a month or two across UFP space... and needing 1.8 million people to man them (assuming 1200 people per galaxy class - and if they put 2400 people per ship, then they'd need 3.6 million people to crew thos galaxy class ships).
The USS Voyager having a crew of 150 (or 147) comes out to having roughly 10 people per deck (deck 15 would or might have less people due to less space in that section of the ship and the curvature of the secondary hull... but assuming 1500 Intrepid class ships in the fleet, that comes out to mere 225 000 people per Intrepid class - and its possible SF might be building double the amount of mid sized and smaller sized classess of ships vs larger classes - so, technically, 450 000 people for 3000 Intrepid class ships in service).
Numbers are fun... and we STILL hadn't scratched the surface of available personnell, contrasted to the size of UFP and up to 100 000 ships in active service... not counting starbases, planets, etc.
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I’d think of it in terms of shifts as well. If we say you need minimum 10 people on duty at any given time - bridge crew, engineering, medical nurse or doctor - and have three 8-hour shifts, that means 30 people.
That assumes Human sleep cycles. Photonic and Denobulan crew members might be able to work more shifts but they deserve downtime, too.
That assumes Human sleep cycles. Photonic and Denobulan crew members might be able to work more shifts but they deserve downtime, too.
Not necessarily.
You might be forgetting automation.
A lot of the time, these ships would technically run on autopilot and doing self-maintenance, with the crew mainly monitoring the systems and ensuring they are functioning as they should... and acting if actual situations arise.
Even today, you have systems where a lot of the production lines are automated and no one really monitors them (at least not most of the time)... because the system is programmed to send a call out to an engineer if a problem ensues - and other times, people might/would mainly be in supervisory positions to occasionally look if the machinery is working as intended.
As such, you can easily get away with much smaller hour shifts for a small crew.
Having long shifts on a starships (especially 8 hrs long) wouldn't make sense to me. In special circumstances that might arise (attack, etc.) where attention of the senior staff is required or extensive repairs are needed, they'd likely end up being on shifts for longer (depending on the situation)... but otherwise (most of the time - such as 80% of the time), it wouldn't really be like that because automation would handle most of the stuff.
There's also the fact that, on your average Starfleet ship, only a fraction of the crew has the job of actually operating the ship. You don't need a full tripling or quadrupling of the main-ship archeological department, or security team, or medical staff, or even engineers to ensure 24-hour operation.
Lol, I see what you did there with the Intrepid.Smashed together a quick comparison scene given the 139m number with a few assets I have laying around from Marc Bell et al with my little Protostar WIP.
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As I recall, there were four different species that Diane had attached to the Deneb system, and they all served aboard the USS Inaeiu, that afore-mentioned Defender-class "battleship" in the pages of My Enemy, My Ally. Captain Rihaul's species, the Deirr(?), would have had the closest resemblance to Lactrans, if I remember the text correctly.Lactrans?
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