OK gang, some of you know what happened with the proposed Lost In Space web series. For those who don't, a cease and desist order was issued last fall to the producers by the copyright owner of the LIS franchise.
Long story. I just have to say that it's too bad that the owner of a near-dead franchise doesn't seem to want fan-based productions to keep the memories alive.
SO, the producers decided to re-tool the show and offer an entirely new series though based upon a similar concept.
"Interstellar Odyssey" is the result. Here, in a nutshell, is the basic premise:
The US has developed a prototype spacecraft capable of interstellar flight. It is based upon back-engineered technology gleaned from several crashes of alien spacecraft. The fundamental design is based upon a saucer-shaped craft. In an ultra-top-secret program, the first ship, the
Columbus suffers what appears to be a catastrophic failure on its maiden flight. We later learn that things are not quite what they seem.
The follow-up mission utilizes a more advanced vessel and is christened the
Odyssey. With a crew of 8, the Odyssey seeks to determine the fate of the Columbus, although its primary mission is to travel to the Gliese 581 system to survey the planets and determine the suitability of establishing human outposts.
So that's the basic premise of the first episode. Taking a cue from the original Lost in Space series, the new Odyssey is structurally similar to the revised Jupiter 2,
outlined in this thread.
Since this project started last November, the exterior of the Odyssey is pretty much set. The ship is basically a flying saucer. What I'd like to chronicle in this thread is the development of the interior spaces.
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Here's the video that introduces the ship:
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The new ship looks great. It has a real "I'm functional, dammit" vibe about it too.
BTW, why is your entire crew officers? No enlisted? C'mon, enlisted personnel are the real guts of any military, they keep everything working.
But there is some crit: In the first scene, when the cam is moving away from the planets, the sun seems to be a small light sphere about 20000 miles above earth and not the big gas bubble some million miles away
Absolutely right, Chanur. There is certainly some "artistic license" in the intro just for the sake of conveying a sense of adventure. But the majority of the new series does take pains to be pretty accurate to what we currently "know" in science. I was an astrophysics major during my first go-round in college and I worked for more than 10 years in a major metropolitan Planetarium. That said, I am willing to bend the rules a bit for the sake of a good yarn.
Your universe, your rules, and so, all i have to say is: well done!!
The aesthetic of the ship interiors is based upon traditional aviation design.
Glad to see you did not give up on the project, and moved ahead with a better ship design then the limitations of the J2. I would do a few minor changes though but it is up to you in the end.
What I would do is the following:
Rotate the inner area about 90 degrees and reverse it. Why? it would allow you to put decompression doors at the ends of bays and air lock and not trap the crew. It would also allow faster access from Quarters to the controls as well as from the galley.
Would add a door and passage to the medical area by the galley and wall off the Medical area so it has a windowed area to watch that area.
Would change the lip on the low area of the saucer, marked in red, to allow that thrust from there to aid in landing
Would thicken the ring, pointed to in green, and make it longer towards the drive area and use that to extend and be the landing gear. The current gear is complicated and that usually means prone to failure or heavy maintenance. the landing gear and enterance should be seperate or one bad landing traps you in the ship.
Still would not put actual windows in the hull weakens it and allow more points of failure would still use a optical system and display panel, the look in the room doesn't have to change the port hole becomes the screen and then also multi-purpose.
Look at the A380 Emirates first class cabin to see how to make the room multi-purpose and configurable, they make great use of a 8x5 foot space.
@GotAFarmYet - Yes, it is likely the circular passageway will be extended through the Med Bay to hook up with the Galley. And there are several pressure doors in that circular passageway that have not shown up yet in the plan Regarding portholes, because the ship is intended to be the primary residence of the crew while on Gliese 581 G & D, the portholes would provide a psychological relief to the crew vs. merely looking at an image on a video screen. It's analogous to watching a video of a fireplace vs. actually tending a real fireplace - it provides a connection to a natural setting even though it may be an alien one.
depends on your point of view, to them we are the bad guy aliens
It is probably prudent to mention that the mother ship, Odyssey, has at least two main drive systems. The counter-rotating plasma domes have a hand in interstellar flight while the perimetric plasma band is more of a gravity manipulator. The design rule on this is that the perimetric gravity drive must be perfectly circular regardless of the diameter of the craft in order to more easily maintain the gravity field using the limited knowledge we have of gravity field manipulation. The Pod has only a perimetric gravity drive.
To fit within the established Odyssey hull, the Flight Pod has a diameter of 5 meters, or about 16'-4". To accommodate three crew members the upper hull has been distorted and pushed to the rear of the little ship.
The intent is to loosely recall a streamline moderne look of early 20th-Century travel.
The device above the rear hatch is a simple floodlight with stereo camera ports on either side.
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looks sweet too
Possibly. The other issue is the Flight Pod should be in keeping with the established aesthetic of a streamlined design although you could certainly have a contrast, like the Jupiter 2 and its Space Pod. But given that the Flight Pod will be operating primarily in an atmosphere and traveling at possibly supersonic speeds it seemed logical to stick with a streamlined design.
Yes, in keeping with the Odyssey theme, perhaps Helen, Cyclops, Penelope, Calypso or Siren?
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