The USS Dauntless (VOY "Hope and Fear") was an alien starship disguised as a Federation Dauntless-class starship in the late 24th century. Artruis's (the owner of the ship) race Species 116 had been recently assimilated by the Borg. With a devious plan he wanted to assimilate the crew of Voyager by the Borg.
- The premise for all my deck calculations: a deck is 2.5m + 0.5m for EPS cables, power cables, ... = 3m height for a deck.
- Starfleet ships like the USS Voyager have 4m (3m deck high + 1m Jefferies tube) because the Jefferies tubes are located between the decks. In other Starfleet ships, they were installed "behind the walls", like side corridors.
On many websites we can find a length of 130m - 150m. The ship isn't a real Starfleet ship but we need a deck high of 4m. Why? Because the USS Dauntless had to be a convincing replica of a Starfleet vessel, in order to deceive the crew of Voyager.
From the MSD (
Master
Situation
Diagram) seen in the Episode we know the position of the decks.
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| screenshot by trekcore.com (VOY "Hope and Fear") |
With this information I have calculated a
length of 252m.
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| schematic by Star Trek Fact Files |
In this screenshot it is indeed an extreme angle in which both ships can be seen. With this impression I wouldn't think that the Dauntless can only be 150m long.
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| screenshot by trekcore.com (VOY "Hope and Fear") |
