The New DS9

[Majestic]

Hello all, if you've been following the book series the Typhoon Pact you'll know what this thread is about, if not and don't want spoilers don't read on or follow the link.

I'd like to know what everyone's opinions and take on this new design is.

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/2013/11/behind-scenes-of-new-deep-space-9.html

 

[CABAL]

Why does the new one have pylons if they can't be docked with?

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
I agree with Cabal, this new design looks very restricting in terms of allowing many ships to dock (like the original DS9 could),and it looks more like an habitat station.

If you ask me (and even if you don't ) I would have this station as an addition to the original DS9, because of it's importance and strategic value it can make sense it can become a larger complex of stations .

 

[dvatreknerd314]

I like the design, and there might be the possibility of ships docking along the vertical rings instead of at the ends of them. I think they based this off of the concept drawings for the original DS9. The one thing I don't like about it is the fact that it's longer along the y axis than it is along the x or z axis. I much would have preferred a perfectly spherical station

 

[Majestic]

I really don't like the habitat section (the honking huge window) a bit of a tactical error on STarfleet's part. I also felt the pylons should have been curved outwards, kind of opposite to the original Ds9.

The design could have been worse and unfortunately the designer and writer didn't have a lot of time to produce the station design. Plus the writer already had a description in the earlier book and so the designer did have some restrictions.