The Pathfinder class was a type of Federation starship that had entered service by the early 25th century. Many elements are reminiscent of the design of the earlier Intrepid-class of the 24th century like the USS Voyager NCC-74656. For example, there are the indented windows, the bridge module, the auxiliary deflector, impulse drives, the side sensor strips, the movable warp nacelles...
As with all my size calculations, I first spaced the decks evenly.
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| schematic by Star Trek Online |
According to this blueprint the ship has 14 decks.
- The premise for all my deck calculations: a deck is 2.5m + 0.5m for EPS cables, power cables, ... = 3m height for a deck.
- My calculations follow a purely mathematical approach. I do not compare bridge modules or disk heights with each other. I always pull in decks based on the rows of windows and then calculate a physically plausible room height.
With a deck height of 3m, this results in a total length of 340.1m.
The official length of 431.42m is therefore too large. If that were the case, a deck would have a height of 3.80m.
By the way: The official length of 431.42m is achieved if the Aero Shuttle (front lower saucer section) is scaled up to the same size as the one of the Intrepid class. This does give you huge decks, but it's a good example of how arbitrarily ship sizes are sometimes determined.