Star Trek: Miranda TOS 20140210

Mass 17933.2
Dimensions (L,D,B) 243 59151
Power Capacity / Generation (e/sec) 4688742.8 1187641 e/s
Thrust / Thrust Ratio 30208.1 t/m
Shields (DPS) / Recovery 316656 9859 DPS 3
Turret Mount Points4
Docking Mount Points8
Docking RequirementsN/A
Price:

Universe:Star Trek
Era: TOS
Faction: Federation
Canon? Debatable
SMEnt Version 0.103


The deceptively large interior space makes this a versatile craft, equippable for exploration, cargo or combat. The Miranda could also be considered a "pocket carrier" as it's large shuttle bay allows it to carry as many as a dozen shuttles or fighters.

Jump-tubes are vertical passage ways that replace the space-eating ramps that I had been using. Being more directly vertical, they also more closely resemble the design of the turbo-lifts that made the designs of the original star-trek craft even plausibly functional.
Did you ever notice the two dark recesses on the Dorsal hull of a Miranda-class starship? Although we never really got to the the Miranda in regular service, I always imagined that those looked like docking ports for large equipment rigs. Heck you could stick anything up there to expand the versatility of the vessel. I imagined a fuel pod and a sensor array for deep-range exploration. I imagined external shuttle pads for intensive search and rescue operations. External weapons pods, starship parts delivery, self-contained habitats for outposts or colonies. The possibilities seemed endless. The only thing in the way was that strange "roll-bar". But perhaps that was only an optional feature added after-market to a standard model ship?

These musings led me to create my fifth-version of the TOS Miranda. This one had no roll-bar, but it DID have docking fields on each side big enough for all sorts of possibilities.

• Full 1:1 scale based on the diagrams and schematics from the original designers.
• Powered, armed, shielded and ready to fly.
• Interior spaces have decks and hallways. Most rooms are left for you to define
• Detailed modeling of the bridge, main engineering and shuttle bay.
• The shuttle bay has two working bay doors, which can be opened via docking beam.
• Unfinished basement. Plenty of room in the "shoulders" of the ship for rooms, shields, or armaments
• Ship comes with 2 versions of TOS shuttles.
• Tuned weapons arrays give this Miranda much sharper teeth than her predecessors.
• 12 turrets provide off-axis defensive capability
• Bunkered ship-core for more staying power in a fight
• 2 oversized docking ports on the ships upper deck serve weapons or utility platforms.
• Jump tubes allow easy movement between decks.

Additional images and details at http://gaeasson-shipwright.blogspot.com/2014/02/tos-miranda-version-5.html