From a production point-of-view, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were fans of the Akira-class - we even have on good authority that they wanted to use the Akira as-is to represent the NX-01 (fortunately the art department fought back on this). This would give a deck height of 4.8 meters - a bit higher than we've seen so far, but also not totally out of the question for reasons we'll get to shortly.Ĭomparisons to the NX-01 are obvious. Strategic Design's plans go with the 464 meter length, with a width of 317 meters, a height of 87 meters, and 15 habitable decks - with three more decks in the weapons pod for a grand total of 18 decks. The DS9 Technical Manual gives us a length of 464 meters, which isn't too far-fetched either.
The deck height would only be about 3.4 meters - considerably less than what we've seen on the Intrepid and Nova so far. An Ex-Astris-Scientia article extrapolated based on the windows and comparing the escape pods with those on the Sovereign, and came up with a length of 440 meters and 19 decks, with a margin of error of plus or minus 10 meters. Reasonable extrapolations can be made, however. The Akira's status as a background ship means that its size isn't as well defined as hero ships like the Constitution, Galaxy, Intrepid, or Sovereign. I've pasted them together to the best of my ability and you can download them here if you want to view them that way.
#Gryphon class runabout full size
The full size images are available here, albeit broken up. In this week's write up we'll review the plans drawn up by Strategic Design and see if that holds water. Background information directly from the Akira's designer has put this vessel into the gunboat/carrier category that was commissioned sometime between the Intrepid and the Sovereign. One of several new Federation designs created for Star Trek: First Contact in 1996, the Akira has become a fan favorite however, we have little hard-canon information about it. Continuing on from my previous write ups on the Intrepid- and Nova-classes based on deck plans drawn up by Strategic Design, we move to the Akira-class.
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