Is anyone here a Trekkie?
HungryCaterpillar said:Ooooh, I really like your well-thought-out ideas as to multiple / individualised hulls, and "... transparent, ... molecular latticed structures enabling it to polarise, depolarise, or change mettalurgical state or states depending on the need..." I've gone full-on geek in response!
With you liking some of the basic formational bits so far, there are also the dimensional and trans-dimensional stuff involving the ships varient of the wormhole entities from Deep Space 9 going on in Hull 4:4, where characters like Sisko, Guinan, Q and Kess get and go all metaphysical and know thy self, and the higher vibrational Hulls 4;5 and above cannot be understood untill a fuller comprehension of Hull 4;4 has been achieved.
Your post was very interesting, and making good points. If anyone complains it was "too long" - then what the hell did they expect by prompting Trekkies?! < winky face >
Just checking sort of thing, Geekian and Techian together usually results in the PTSD version of complex catatonia and facial mimicry of goldfish.
I like the idea of there being no dedicated bridge monitor. Instead, what if the very walls and ceiling - as you indicate - were a holographic grid, and the whole bridge had a manifest external viewpoint... so it kinda looked like the bridge was on the exterior hull, with no walls or ceiling, and surrounded by a beautiful 360 degree panoramic viewpoint of space (think the stellar cartography lab from the Generations film)? Of course, it'd make production and costings that much more difficult.
From the health and safety viewpoint, the bridge should be up front and crew quarters centralised within the hull rather than its periphery. Also if the sensor arrays go off line - there are only two windows to the rear of the briidge; which is good for a major puzzle for the team in terms of navigation, but a third point of perspective where say the captain can easily keep an eye on the road sort of thing - seems oddly perculiar to exclude that but such things are not in general unusual.
I get what you mean about the interior design of the 1701-F making things difficult (from a story telling point of view). I thought the transporter was particularly misplaced. Maybe the design of the 1701-F is a little more optimistic than me or you... in that they don't anticipate boarding parties or hull breaches?! Maybe in the 24th century - post Dominion war - the biggest concerns are appeasing Starfleet Human Resources, and cautioning crew health and safety matters?!
I think the 1701-F bridge has a strong likeness with a certain bridge of a particular Cardasian space-station orbiting a planet with a name sounding like Bajor perhaps? It does seem though very much that unlike Deep Space 9 - the Captain of the 1701-F is going to have do some throwing and projecting of their voice - so to be heard by the bridge crew. Or maybe life has really calmed right right down and the 1701-F has become more like the first Enterprise starship in terms of being a luxury intersteller liner - more sizeable fashion than reasonalble function and all that.
HungryCaterpillar said:Ooooh, I really like your well-thought-out ideas as to multiple / individualised hulls, and "... transparent, ... molecular latticed structures enabling it to polarise, depolarise, or change mettalurgical state or states depending on the need..." I've gone full-on geek in response!
With you liking some of the basic formational bits so far, there are also the dimensional and trans-dimensional stuff involving the ships varient of the wormhole entities from Deep Space 9 going on in Hull 4:4, where characters like Sisko, Guinan, Q and Kess get and go all metaphysical and know thy self, and the higher vibrational Hulls 4;5 and above cannot be understood untill a fuller comprehension of Hull 4;4 has been achieved.
Your post was very interesting, and making good points. If anyone complains it was "too long" - then what the hell did they expect by prompting Trekkies?! < winky face >
Just checking sort of thing, Geekian and Techian together usually results in the PTSD version of complex catatonia and facial mimicry of goldfish.
I like the idea of there being no dedicated bridge monitor. Instead, what if the very walls and ceiling - as you indicate - were a holographic grid, and the whole bridge had a manifest external viewpoint... so it kinda looked like the bridge was on the exterior hull, with no walls or ceiling, and surrounded by a beautiful 360 degree panoramic viewpoint of space (think the stellar cartography lab from the Generations film)? Of course, it'd make production and costings that much more difficult.
From the health and safety viewpoint, the bridge should be up front and crew quarters centralised within the hull rather than its periphery. Also if the sensor arrays go off line - there are only two windows to the rear of the briidge; which is good for a major puzzle for the team in terms of navigation, but a third point of perspective where say the captain can easily keep an eye on the road sort of thing - seems oddly perculiar to exclude that but such things are not in general unusual.
I get what you mean about the interior design of the 1701-F making things difficult (from a story telling point of view). I thought the transporter was particularly misplaced. Maybe the design of the 1701-F is a little more optimistic than me or you... in that they don't anticipate boarding parties or hull breaches?! Maybe in the 24th century - post Dominion war - the biggest concerns are appeasing Starfleet Human Resources, and cautioning crew health and safety matters?!
I think the 1701-F bridge has a strong likeness with a certain bridge of a particular Cardasian space-station orbiting a planet with a name sounding like Bajor perhaps? It does seem though very much that unlike Deep Space 9 - the Captain of the 1701-F is going to have do some throwing and projecting of their voice - so to be heard by the bridge crew. Or maybe life has really calmed right right down and the 1701-F has become more like the first Enterprise starship in terms of being a luxury intersteller liner - more sizeable fashion than reasonalble function and all that.
