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Published: 2011-03-08 15:09:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 2439; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 39
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My favourite shuttle design in the shuttlebay of my favourite fantasy space vessel. All models by me except the guys, who were made for me in Poser by my man Billy Bower.Related content
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The Type 7 is my favorite shuttlecraft, and you have brought her to live beautifully. Well done!
And I know that the last comment is from seven years ago but I don't care I want to praise your work. Good job!
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Thank you very much, it's appreciated.
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This is not a bad shuttle - I dunno why they never ever used it much in the series!
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I think the shuttle wasn't built for quite some time purely because of the expense. It was far easier to build the crappy little slab sided shuttlepod full size from plywood than build a large, curvy, complex shuttle like this.
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Yeah - that makes a lot of sense. Alas.
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Yeah. Basically, they designed the Type 7 here during TNG season 1, and made models of it but had trouble building a full-size one (for actors to interact with). They had a crude mockup used once (seen here: ), but never really finished the set.
To remedy this, in season 2, with fairly little budget needed, they built the tiny boxy compact car of a shuttle, the Type 15 Shuttlepod (I like to think of it as the baby shuttle, and the type 7 as the mommy ^^).
They still used the type 7 model and interior set occasionally, when it wasn't necessary to show the actors interacting with the outside of the shuttle, but this became rarer and rarer.
Finally, in season 5, they inherited Star Trek V's shuttle set, which they cut down and changed up a bit to make into the Type 6 shuttlecraft. It was a little curvier, but still not as rounded as this first one.
Then they used the Type 6 for, like, ever. It even shows up in Voyager a little bit, as well as some of the models being modified for use as the Type 8 shuttlecraft in it's early seasons.
Finally, the external Type 6 set got rebuilt into a single-episode appearance as a ship called 'Alice', by which time Voyager had already made it's own ugly pointy shuttles... somehow, considering they were lost in the Delta quadrant with supposed resource limitations. (My TNG bias is showing...)
For more reading at the Memory Alpha wiki, where somebody else did a lot more research than I did:
The type 7 shuttlecraft (seen in this picture): [link]
The type 15 shuttlepod: [link]
The type 6 shuttlecraft: [link]
The type 8 shuttlecraft: [link]
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WOW! What a fascinating fact file this is - goes to show what the imagination can do is no match for the reality of the world! Excellent sir and thanks
BTW - your bias for TNG is well founded - Voyager seem to whip up shuttles like disposable cups - lordie...
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Glad to be of help ^^ There's a lot of Star Trek minutia out there to be had.
That said though, I'm a m'am, not a sir. ^^
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I like the darker stuff - how people felt, annoyed, deflated, etc.
Sorry Ma'am; get few females here.
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