Original height: approx. 245.5m (Including Antenna, based on the size of the airlocks and necessary deck height in the "arms")
Scale: 1/2500
Print orientation for Detail Plastic: Top up
Mounting hole: Attack Wing, small
Requested by: dhegemann
This is a small space station very similar to the Orbital Office Complex seen in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (The pods are arranged a bit different here). I determined the size according to the various airlocks around the station. They need to be the same size (about 2m in diameter) as on the TMP Constitution Refit, so that Travel Pods and the Vulcan Surak Shuttle can actually dock with them. This size also allows to fit a narrow corridor into the "arms" holding the pods, so that the crew can walk in them without having to duck. The Orbital Office Complex was exclusively shown in "ST: The Motion Picture", but the model was later altered to become the Regula One lab in "Star Trek II" as also many space stations in TNG and DS9. For that, the model was flipped and most of the smaller pods were removed. Instead, an "observatory" was added to one of the larger pods. Finally, the model was altered once more by removing the four large tubes and the smaller pod on the side with the "observatory" to become another type of Starbase in DS9 (Starbase 257 and more prominently Starbase 375).
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