Newly excited, I began tinkering with some external views of several Starfleet shuttles. Now, I'm hooked. I've been converting all my deckplans on my other site over to this system, and will continue to use this page to tie it all together.

When adapting ships from available sources, I've decided to ignore many quoted sizes and instead rely on visual cues from the source images, coupled with that most Vulcan of ideals, logic. Many fannish ships give arbitrary size estimates which conflict with features of known size in their drawings, like standard bridge modules and docking rings. Many moons ago, Paramount released a set of drawings for Star Trek the Motion Picture which gave firm measurements for both. When these features are present, I will base my measurements on them as a hard-and-fast basis for scale. Also, with some ships in gaming manuals (FASA, specifically) their measurements do not match the proportions of their drawings. Both the Mission and Chameleon class ships have a number of decks which will not fit into their envelopes, as well as having wildly differing length to height ratios from the drawings. FASA was particularly bad for this sort of thing—their USS Reliant Deck Plans were particularly stomach-turningly bad.

Many Thanks to Frank V. Bonura for an intriguing idea, and to Allen Rolfes for showing me it could work for Star Trek, Lee Braden for introducing me to the SWDA and all the folks at Trek-RPG.net forums and Treknographics 101 for all the enthusiasm and support they've shown me over the years.