The ship known as the Spacematic was barely seen in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-ations, when Sisko and company travel back in time to the original series' Trouble With Tribbles episode. The ship was shown in the hangar bay of Space Station K7, along with a Class F shuttlecraft. Only recently have large enough photos surfaced to see more than a vague shape The best two of these are reproduced below.


The recreated model of Space Station K7 was built at Greg Jein's model shop to the original Matt Jefferies design, and model maker Jason Kaufman decided to have a little fun and built a Class F shuttlecraft and a small ship to represent Cyrano Jones' one-man scout, and placed them in the hangar. They were almost unnoticeable, but they are there and they're canon. Cyrano's ship had the name Spacematic emblazoned over the viewport. The name was actually a logo for Letraset's® patented spacing system for its rub-down instant lettering. It is my contention that this was not the name of the ship, but a manufacturer's logo, similar to Winnebago, Airstream, or Chris-Craft. The ship may have a name of its own, but such name is unknown.

The craft was shown next to a Class F shuttle, so we can judge its size quite accurately The Class F is 24 feet (7.3 metres) long, and the Spacematic is just about exactly twice as long, or 48 feet (14.6 metres) in length. It is a compact ship with only room for one deck. According to sources, it seats two, and is referred to as a "one-man scout ship". Cryano was a trader, so I have designated it a Commercial Scout. No registration number is visible on the studio model. I have also decided that since the ship is shown to have a lot of disparate clutter affixed to the outside, Cyrano's Spacematic is almost certainly highly modified and carrying a lot of extraneous cargo, so I have also done a stock version. Gamemasters who find the Chameleon class in FASA's adventure Again, Troublesome Tribbles a bit too large may consider replacing it with the Spacematic.

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