Star Trek Deckplan Federation

The Chameleon class Scout was introduced in the blue Adventure Book included in the boxed set for the first edition of FASA's Star Trek, the Roleplaying Game. It was in the adventure entitled "Again, Troublesome Tribbles", which dealt with researchers working on the the planet Aleph III. Complications include Cyrano Jones, a landing party of Klingons led by Commander Koloth and, of course, the eponymous tribbles. It was depicted as a much smaller ship, but still with four decks. I kept the four decks, but enlarged the size of the ship to fit them all in. The stats given the ship in the book list it as 32 metres long and 10 metres high, including the warp nacelle. In order to fit four decks with a spacing of 3 metres from deck to deck (2.5 metres from deck to overhead), with an allowance for the hull thickness, the hull alone needed to be 13 metres high. Using the proportions in the exterior drawings, this made it some 64 metres long, 17 metres high overall (including nacelle and landing pads) and only 9.6 metres wide. I guess FASA must have used a rubber ruler—or maybe their writers and artists didn't speak to each other.

If, however, we assume the length is correct, then the ship is 8.4 metres high and only 4.85 metres wide, with 3 decks having low ceiling heights - a mere 2 metres for the lower two decks and a maximum of 1.75 metres in the cockpit. But then, it is a cramped little Scout... The cockpit remains unchanged, but the crew deck and engineering deck have to be concatenated. This still leaves plenty of room on the second deck, as the crew spaces were extremely generous with a huge bathroom. I've given it a rather small lounge, a generous crew cabin with efficiency fresher, and still had space for a reasonable sized engineering room. The lower cargo module works out pretty much as originally shown.