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Master Systems Display for the USS Hinata, a Nova-class Science Vessel launched in 2368 by Starfleet. By 2409, it had been refitted to the Rhode Island-class variant, and is presently under the command of Captain Keitaro Urashima.The Hinata's MSD is located at the back of the bridge, where a member of the bridge crew would monitor the overall status of the vessel, and if required relay the relevant information to the Captain and First Officer. Detailed information such as power / resource allocation/usage, shields and weapons status as well as science sensor readings have been relegated to other dedicated stations.
Main Schematic
By default, this shows a lateral (side-on) cross-section of the current vessel, along with major subsystems and their respective locations throughout the ship. This can be easily changed to various other display modes in a manner to be described shortly.
Reconfigurable Auxiliary Display A
Located to the far left of the MSD is one of two supporting displays, which can be easily reconfigured to display various information, depending on the alert status or mission requirements - for instance, when at warp under normal cruise conditions, it displays the Subspace Field Geometry as measured by the appropriate sensors.
Reconfigurable Auxiliary Display B
Similarly, on the far right of the MSD is another supporting display. This is mainly used in conjunction with the Arrow Pad to show close-ups of the ship's schematic, or to review subsystem component operational states.
Arrow Pad
Below Aux Display B is a keypad that allows the user to move a cursor over the current view to zoom in and examine a small area of the ship in finer detail. I'm guessing the random numbers are "shortcut" keys to elements or subsystems of interest.
View Filters
At the (figurative) heart of the MSD is a small set of view "filters" that can be used to quickly change the main MSD view to different configurations:
- Internal Views: Either default lateral cross-section overview, or any of the 8 decks that typically make up Rhode Island-class vessels
- External View: Any of the six nautical orientations relative to the vessel - dorsal, fore, port, starboard, aft and ventral
- Filters: Either an overview, or just one of a few major subsystems - structural integrity, environmental, electro-plasma system (EPS) and optical data network (ODN)
Subsystem Status Displays
At the very bottom of the MSD are a series of buttons and indicators, for showing the current status of various subsystems. As far as I'm personally concerned, they serve the same purpose as those little viewscreen blinkies.
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As the name of the ship and current Commanding Officer suggests, the Hinata and its crew are essentially based on the romantic comedy manga series Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu; my interpretation of the source material resulted in the following parallels / observations:
- The ship is named after the traditional Japanese Inn from the manga (Hinata House / Hinata Inn / Hinata-sou -> USS Hinata)
- The manga depicts the run-down inn as having been managed by generations of the Urashima family, only recently re-purposed as an all-girls dormitory by its previous owner, Hinata "Granny Hina" Urashima. In the Star Trek: Odyssey fanon, the USS Hinata was one of the earliest Nova-class vessels to be commissioned and launched after its eponymous class leader, and initially commanded by then-Captain Hinata Urashima for a number of years up to and including her promotion to Rear Admiral, whereupon she used it as the flagship for her task force; after she was kicked upstairs into the Admiralty, she arranged to have her grandson Keitaro, the only direct descendant in the Urashima family currently serving in Starfleet, to assume command (yes, it's blatant neopotism, but apparently Starfleet Command decided to humor the old batty crone by letting this slide).
- The original Keitaro Urashima was a struggling student who failed his university entrance examinations twice, evicted from home by his disapproving parents, and ended up taking over management of the inn from his grandmother. Odyssey fanon instead has Keitaro already commissioned as a Lieutenant in Starfleet, and having failed his Bridge Officer's Test twice, got passed around between other Starfleet ships by their exasperated captains until he ended up on the Hinata; after a number of events, Keitaro eventually passes the test on his fourth attempt and was fast-tracked to full Captaincy due to Starfleet desperately needing to replace losses in the ongoing Federation-Klingon war.
- Keitaro's love interest Naru Narusegawa was originally a recent high school graduate preparing for her university exam, and as a typical Tsundere , initially gives him a hard time due to her perception of him as a clumsy pervert. Odyssey's Lt. Narusegawa is also preparing for her first attempt at the Bridge Officer's Test, and is similarly annoyed with Keitaro's persistent attempts to fulfill his "childhood promise" of becoming a Starfleet captain; she eventually warms up to him and becomes the Hinata's XO.
- Other Love Hina supporting characters have also been reinterpreted as senior officers / key crew / supporting characters:
- Noriyasu Seta, Keitaro and Naru's mentor, is a Lt. Cmdr. and the Hinata's Chief Science Officer, who once worked for the Daystrom Institute Archaeological Council
- Haruka Urashima, Keitaro's older cousin (and "aunt", due to a bizarre technicality) is a Lt. Cmdr. and the Ship's Counselor
- Mutsumi Otohime is a Lt. Cmdr. and the Hinata's Chief Medical Officer
- Motoko Aoyama, aka "Kendo Girl", is a Lt. and pulls double duty as the Hinata's Security and Tactical Chief
- Kaolla Suu, the biosterous princess of the fictional Kingdom of Molmol, is a Lt. and the Chief Engineer (with her home country now re-interpreted as a former Federation colony planet whose inhabitants adopted a monarchy)
- Mitsune "Kitsune" Konno, the hard-drinking party girl , is a Lt. and the Operations Officer, constantly in debt due to her Dabo addiction
- Shinobu Maehara, the kind-hearted high school junior who looks up to Keitaro, is a Lt. j.g. and a Nurse
- Ema Maeda, the timid junior high school student who moves into Hinata Inn in the manga's epilogue, is a Ensign and a Junior Science Officer specializing in Exobiology (as well as owning a pet charmeleon named Leon)
- Sarah McDougal, Seta's bratty daughter from a previous relationsip, is an Acting Ensign and Assistant Chief Engineer
- Mizuho Fujisawa , a character created specifically for the Love Hina Dreamcast games, is a Chief Petty Officer and the Transporter Chief
- Haitani and Shirai, Keitaro's hopeless and bumbling friends, are relegated to comic relief as well as Redshirts repeatedly killed and revived under bizarre circumstances
- Kanako Urashima, Keitaro's adopted creepy younger sister, is a Lt. and an observer from Starfleet Intelligence; rumor has it she actually works for Franklin Drake from Section 31
- The size and limited capabilities of the ship restrict the Hinata to short-term planetary surveys and anthropological studies; the cramped crew quarters serve as a nice parallel to the individual residents' rooms at Hinata Inn.
- My Odyssey fanon has Starfleet streamlining and consolidating its ship and shuttle classes as much as possible (e.g. the Aeroshuttles on Intrepid-class ships were decommissioned due to redundancy); while other Nova / Rhode-Island-class ships lost their Waverider atmospheric shuttles by 2409, the Hinata managed to keep theirs. Also, the Hinata still uses the aging Type VIII shuttles instead of the Type IX or XI shuttles seen on newer Starfleet vessels.
- Love Hina's Kaolla Suu had a penchant for making mechanical robots resembling turtles, armed with all sorts of comically-implausible weaponry and dubbed Mecha-tama; her counterpart on the USS Hinata is no different, although in this case the Mecha-tama is actually the crew's epithet for an experimental Starfleet all-terrain variable-geometry ground vehicle used for planetary exploration.
- UPDATE 17 Nov 2015: Switched to the new official LCARS color scheme used in Star Trek Online, and threw in a small easter egg for those familiar with the manga
LCARS color scheme inspired from STO, graphics and elements based on a combination of official and fanon MSDs; Characters based on Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu.
Drafted in Inkscape 0.48.
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This leads to an interesting question...
How long can Keitaro survive once Naru punches him through the nearest bulkhead?
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A most excellent question!
According to an old FAQ entry from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center , a person exposed to vacuum would remain conscious for up to 15 seconds, and beyond 30 seconds the risk of permanent damage is greatly increased; GSFC suggests that death may occur after one to two minutes.
Meanwhile, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Augments", Captain Archer was deliberately blown out of a pressurized compartment at a medical research space station (in order to disperse a cloud of pathogens behind him) and was quickly beamed aboard his ship; apart from mild frostbite from being exposed to the vacuum of space (technically inaccurate according to GSFC), he made a quick recovery.
In Keitaro's case, assuming his comically implausible resilience still applies in the Star Trek universe (albeit toned down slightly for realism), let's say he has about a minute before Mizuho has to beam him back inside.
I'll also add that the original "Did anyone get the number of that truck/bus/train [that hit me]?" would most likely be replaced with "Did anyone get the hull registry on that shuttle?"
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