also, netflix is supposedly going to start streaming episodes of all the trek series.
If you keep dropping helpful sites like that I might have to give you half dibs on this project, Nebula.
Didn't know about Trek Core. I wish I new about it before I started an episode by episode search on YouTUBE. (arggh)
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I spoke with Alexander Richardson on Sci Fi Meshes and Star Trek Official Movie Forum about the 4 deck Defiant vs the 6 Deck Defiant.
-Canon says 5 Decks (per Worf)
-He pointed out the turbolift says 6 decks
-It would make sense in Starship Down if Engineering wasn't on deck one but a lower Deck if Work couldn't get to it from the Bridge.
-The MSD on the show is horribly wrong (which is why Richardson remade it) which shows a shuttle floating in the Nacelles or out side of the ship. Same goes for the Landing Gear.
So far I'm of the opinion that the Defiant can't be 120 meters long.
Last time I did the Defiant/Galaxy/ DS9 comparisonl it was absolutely impossible to put Defiant at the Dock Ring as it looks in the series with DS9 being big enough to fit a Galaxy Class ship between it's 3 Pylons. (IMPOSSIBLE) So Defiant has to be at least 170 Meters, a max of 200 meters.
So...I might as well make it matter of record of how ridiculous a 120 meter Defiant would be.
Okay: So this is DS9 scaled to the 120 meter Defiant and the 642 meter Galaxy. This image assumes that it's DS9 that is scaled wrong.
(It's actually smaller than this as Defiant's Nacelles should fit right inside the stations thrusters at either side.)
In this image DS9 is scaled up just enough to fit the Galaxy between the 3 pylons.
Defiant remains at 120 meters.
Galaxy remains at 642 meters.
The Station is at 1683 meters
We never see this sort of size comparison between Defiant and the Station.
Assuming this is the minimum a Galaxy Class ship could fit in between I used 3 different Defiants. 120, 170 and 200 meters long.
So obviously the Galaxy wasn't designed to fit between those pylons. That was wishful thinking on the part of the FX people
Defiant was (in some ways) designed for this station. Effect wise this ship had to be a certain size during design just like the Danube Class runabout. The runnabout still fits on the DS9 pad at 23 meters with the station scaled up to 1.683 Km but much larger (Like 2.5 km that some shots show) and the Runabout becomes a bit of a spec on the same pad.
So essentially the minmum size of Defiant is around 170 meters
It justifies turbolifts
It justifies several effect shots Galaxy vs the Defiant, Defiant vs Mirandas
It justifies 6 decks
It justifies the shots of it dock at the station (but requires more)
It justifies the size of the escape pods
It justifies the windows on the Defiant (which could never fit four decks.)
I think this is a case of another bad MSD
The majority of reasonable data seems to say 200 meters and 6 Decks