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/c/StarTrek: Your safe harbored Spacedock in these Stellar Seas!
Fire up the inertial dampeners, retract all moorings and clear space dock. It's time to boldy go where no one has gone before!
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Watching TNG first that just seemed normal. Then ds9 was even bigger. Watching TOS was a bit weird because they seemed so small.
DS9 is such a funny escalation too. The station is just gigantic, since the D can easily dock at it while only using one of its (eight?) capital berths. But how much of it do we ever see? Private quarters, offices, some cargo holds. The Prominade should be the largest set we encounter but it barely seems larger or more impressive than a suburban shopping mall.
Something like Mass Effect's Citadel is how I image DS9 should really look on the inside, and even that's probably underselling it given these dimensions!
When you look at TOS as basically a submarine show in space (Roddenberry being a navy man and all), the original scale makes a lot of sense.
I agree DS9 inside and outside don't match. I think it would be too spindly if they did the correct proportions.
Now can you imagine StarFleet's starbases? Those were big enough for ships to enter.