(Above) The intriguing DS9 defense sails. Magazine, conveyors, massive rotary gatling phasers, and torp launchers. Note the fire control center.
If I told you that I did not have a good time doing these diagrams I would be a big fat liar. I think you can pretty much tell by looking at them. One of my favorites is the cutaway of the DS9 defense sail. So much of the station was left unexplained, and I pretty much had a field day filling it out. The idea was that starfleet fully refitted the station’s defensive capabilities, which had been stripped by the Cardassian’s when they abandoned it. This should not have come as any surprise to the Cardassians, but to say that they were unprepared by the newly acquired fire power was an understatement.
(Below) The rotary, gatling style phaser emplacement was something we hadn’t seen before, it was as big a surprise to viewers as it was to the Cardassians. The nifty pop up phaser bar.
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(Above) The Quantum Torpedo. A Ds9 bit of ordinance often utilized but never seen. I had great fun streamlining the erstwhile Pho-Torp that had been around for decades. Sort of the sport coup of photon torpedos.
(Below) The standard photon torpedo, basically unchanged since “The Wrath of Khan”. We all have a lot of nostalgia for this one, as it was used as Spock’s casket. I detailed a few of these during my time as a scenic artist, and I’m here to tell you that they would have had to chop our favorite science officers legs off to make him fit.
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