Who doesn't love a good Shuttlebay?
Almost always bigger on the inside, they fit whatever the plot needs💕
Here's where it all started, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from the OG Star Trek series.
Here's the 1701-A from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Insanely enough, the set was originally the palace from Coming to America. This is the only time a full size shuttlebay has been a practical set.
The Next Gen Enterprise-D had an enormous main shuttlebay designed. Enormous and majestic and WAY too expensive to depict, so we only ever saw little secondary bays in the neck of the ship like this one. The set was also used as every cargo bay ever needed.
This shuttlebay is extra magical, since it didn't exist until it was suddenly needed for an episode. As you can see, it went from a having a protruding tractor beam emitter to a recessed set of doors in the space of a few episodes.
This shuttlebay never looked the same twice and changed size to fit whatever was needed at the time. Here it barely fits the Delta Flyer but at other times it holds the Delta Flyer and other ships with room to spare and somehow one time Neelix's ship (not shuttle, ship!) was revealed to just be sitting in storage since the pilot episode
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (AOS)
The Kelvin Timeline movie Enterprise featured the King of shuttlebays. Requiring a massive size cheat to fit inside (this Enterprise is supposed to be 725 meters long, but to fit the shuttlebay it needs to be 1200 meters), it features more than a dozen shuttles in racks along the walls. Tons of high up walkways for crew to fall from and enourmous support beams that are seemingly designed to make landing as hazardous as possible
The U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 has an enourmous shuttlebay, and the doors get jammed open after the first season so we always get to see inside.
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (SNW)
Nice and roomy, but not roomy enough for the hundred or so drones they launched at the end of Discovery season 2
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