WOW! OK, so:
Watched TNG: "The Battle", got to the scene where Data read's
Stargazer's final Captain's Log, 9 years prior, with a blurry star-date of 40?17.3 (I'm getting to my point, bear with me), I couldn't make out the ? part - its 2,5 or 8. This is where I went to the wonderful internet to see if i could find a clearer picture than the 46" HDTV showed me, cause based on the star-dates
after TNG Season One they used the format 4XYYY.Z, where X=TNG season #, or the year in general of the Star Trek show(s), and that year
went up as time went on, one digit per year; then how could the
Stargazer's last log's star-date's X factor be one year
prior to TNG S01, not 9 years (which should have been star-date 32YYY.Z-ish)??
While I was poking around Google, and since Memory-Alpha hates me (no picture of what I was looking for to begin with), I found this thingie:
("Sensor blisters on the underside of a Constellation-class starship. Added by Scottish Andy" - from Memory Beta (PS Andy: Thanx!))
and this thingie (from Memory Alpha - finally paid off, eh?):
According to Sternbach, the desktop model was further detailed with several anime kits from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Century Orguss, Gundam, and Crusher Joe. The largest of these model kit details were the wings and wing box assemblies of a VF-1 Valkyrie model kit from Macross. The later four-foot Constellation-class shooting model used the equivalent parts from a larger-scale VF-1 Valkyrie kit
which, now that we have a visual and a description of what they really are, we're left with what they would be in Trek, and as answered by others, it was also answered on Memory Beta:
The underside of the Constellation class saucer featured many fairings that marred her otherwise clean lines. These pallets contained special sensor equipment that befitted her role as a deep-space explorer, most of which could be exchanged for mission specific equipment at a starbase, and could be accessed from the deck above.
Ugh... there's more. This
thingie, while seemingly pure fanon, gives some description of some of the underside do-dads. I'd avoid the color prints... I don't think that some of those lines line up with what they should be lining up with.
I'm sorry - I'm not yet done...
As for what SFB/SFC class best fits this particular hull form... I'd have to go with the NSR. The SSD just feels most correct based on the time period, ship design, mission objectives and, for it's size, massive shuttle bay. Sure, the canon model shows 4 torpedo tubes, but couldn't two of them really be the two probe launchers on the NSR? The three nacelle thing that the NSR has going on is odd, sure, but just split the C-WARP in half and divide the boxes to R and L-WARP, and assume that each of those really is two, i.e. two R and two L-WARP ... just the boxes don't quite divide up... but you get the idea. The two special sensors could represent the two large underside bulges which we've all determined are, indeed, special sensors. While I do agree that the GSC makes a good candidate for the
Constellation Class, SFB drawings and SSDs, and SFC models, depict a more
Constitution style hull form. The GSX is right out, as Picard describes the class (well,
Stargazer specifically) as "underpowered and overworked". SFB history tells us that the GSC/GSX class are overworked during the Andromedan Campaigns (+1, I guess, for the GSC), the GSX is no where near underpowered.
OK. I'm done. You've already got your info WAY before I poked my head into this, and, I suspect, are already on your way to making whatever you were going to make. I just wanted to contribute since I first saw this post, but didn't have the ammo.
NSR SSD and Counter are in Module R10.
P.S.:
("An end elevation cutaway of a Constellation-class starship. Added by Scottish Andy" - Memory Beta again. Thanx, again, Andy)
P.P.S. The
Soyuz Class greebles, according to the internet, are supposed to be sensor modules. Go figure. More to the point of the model, it looks like someone went to the local hobby store, and bought the largest wet navy battleship or destroyer or whatever and adapted the gun turrets for use on this ship. If so, I can't really tell if the gun barrels are still there or removed, but in either event, something gun barrel like pokes out from these "sensor pods", as well as the "sensor dome" that TMP/TOS era vessels all seem to have below the saucer. Thus, I am lead to believe that the pods and the dome would be similar to basic sensors, perhaps mission specific, and the spires are super special sensors, designed to see things better.
Czar "If you think this was long, you should see what I took out!" Mohab
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