Actually, Newman, from the one shot I've seen, the conference lounge for the sov appears to have transparent windows, perhaps the same hack could be used for your aft compartment? I doubt it'd work for the side windows...
If you go back
here you may notice that Excalibur will not come out for BC. As this mod will, it needs to follow the limitations of BC, which don't concern us when working on Excalibur.
I'm afraid that the runabout - the version that will come as a standalone mod for BC - will be unable to use the features you mention. The same mesh will probably be used for Excalibur though, and that version will have the more advanced features at it's disposal, so I may open the side and aft windows for that. For now, though, they need to remain closed.
*hack*Defiant-style engineering*hack*
*ahem* they're all in the headers for the new Excalibur site, and there's some in the third era dude's sigs here...*ahem*
Oi, what do you mean, "Defiant-style engineering"? What bloody style? It IS the Def engineering! I should know.. ;)