205: Noticed that Janeway's desk was re-used from the one she had on the Dauntless. On the prior ship, her sleeping quarters and office were the same space, but here it's exclusively her ready room. Oddly, the half-wall partition from the Dauntless that separated the desk area from her bed also made it here, although all it does here is separate the desk area from the wall immediately next to it. Perhaps it's a discrete computer module or something that makes office work easier. Or heck, it could be the very same desk, Janeway is known to take keepsakes along with her.
Also, the
MSD has been posted by its designer, and it is one happenin' ship! Notes:
- I count 22-23 decks.
- Some of the interior sets don't match what we see here. For example, Janeway's ready room has windows, but here is sandwiched between the arborteum (called a "green zone" here) and the bridge.
- The holodeck continues to be a big dome.
- The warp core is in the primary hull, stretching all the way to the center bottom, where the torpedo blister hangs. I'm guessing there's no Captain's Yacht here. We DON'T see any big plasma conduits popping out from it though, but it's not like the ones on other ships are exactly on the centerline either.
- Thing is, the warp core is fore of the engine room, which shows the core and room we see in the show. The engine room MAY be specifically for the slipstream drive, which is a remarkable detail.
- A curious domed structure on deck 2 is simply called "starboard". Perhaps a fancy lounge? There's another one in the secondary hull, above a large auditorium.
- The mess hall is very large here, sitting across two decks, and even has a spiral staircase and elevated platforms.
- There isn't a traditional main shuttlebay on the saucer, aft of the bridge. Here, the two noted bays are low on the secondary hull and where we expect one to be on Akira and/or Steamrunner class ships, on the forward rim of the saucer.
- On a more narrow ridge on the aft saucer dorsal, in place of a main shuttlebay, is a launch bay for "nuclear missiles", akin to a VLS on today's warships or submarines! Fore of that is a dedicated blister for an enclosed radar dish, marked accordingly.
- The VLS sits right above the ship's library. So much for keeping quiet, during launch operations anyway. At least the library makes up for the lack of any labeled computer cores; a probable core is towards the rear of the ship, in an open, multi-deck structure that may also be a connecting space full of balconies like the JJ Enterprise had. OTOH, it's directly above the "air conditioner", which would be useful to keep the core cool (assuming computer cores in Trek run hot, which has never been an issue AFAIK).
- Cetacean Ops occupies a space between the hull division lines, meaning it stretches from the saucer into the engineering hull. Between this and the engineering compartments' positions, it's pretty clear that this ship was not designed to separate.
Mark