DS9Sega,
I see what you mean about the proportions. It is difficult to judge dimension but the suit alcoves may be 4-5’ wide rather than Johnson’s ~3.5’. Looking at some of the screencaps in that series,
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=270&page=6
it appears that there is a small outer personnel hatch in the location shown by Johnson. Where Kirk is exiting the airlock there appears to be a blank wall behind him. I think Johnson’s general arrangement can work if you replace the inner round hatch with a blank wall and add additional hatches at either side of his docking port airlock. These would open into the personnel airlock and departure lounge respectively.
The primary hull docking port configuration seems to be different from what we see at the torpedo and cargo bay DP’s. In those locations we either see or it seems to be implied that the outer DP’s have a corresponding inner round hatch directly across a small airlock. This looks to be a logical visual cue that the set designers adopted. I think it would be awkward to add a round hatch on the departure lounge side in the arrangement I described above.
I see Johnson’s layout being more consistent with the other DP arrangements. It also makes sense from a practical perspective to have movement flow directly through the DP airlock and staging area rather than make multiple jogs. I don’t know why they made this set different. (Note: I realize that the torpedo level DP set did not exist at the time of TMP.)
Thanks again for info.
I see what you mean about the proportions. It is difficult to judge dimension but the suit alcoves may be 4-5’ wide rather than Johnson’s ~3.5’. Looking at some of the screencaps in that series,
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=270&page=6
it appears that there is a small outer personnel hatch in the location shown by Johnson. Where Kirk is exiting the airlock there appears to be a blank wall behind him. I think Johnson’s general arrangement can work if you replace the inner round hatch with a blank wall and add additional hatches at either side of his docking port airlock. These would open into the personnel airlock and departure lounge respectively.
The primary hull docking port configuration seems to be different from what we see at the torpedo and cargo bay DP’s. In those locations we either see or it seems to be implied that the outer DP’s have a corresponding inner round hatch directly across a small airlock. This looks to be a logical visual cue that the set designers adopted. I think it would be awkward to add a round hatch on the departure lounge side in the arrangement I described above.
I see Johnson’s layout being more consistent with the other DP arrangements. It also makes sense from a practical perspective to have movement flow directly through the DP airlock and staging area rather than make multiple jogs. I don’t know why they made this set different. (Note: I realize that the torpedo level DP set did not exist at the time of TMP.)
Thanks again for info.
They published what, six versions of the "Trek Encyclopedia" and somehow seemed surprised that later revisions didn't see the same sales levels as the earlier versions. Even the nicely-done "Trek Maps" book was such a niche-item that a die-hard guy like me has never really read it.
