A runabout has room for maybe one server rack's worth.
#STAR TREK RUNABOUT FULL#
Willravel's comment reminded me, on this front, that they also don't have the computing resources of a full starship: a real starship has a computer core around the size of a small datacenter, packed full of data storage and number-crunching capacity. They will also necessarily have lower-resolution sensors than a proper starship-they just don't have the power budget, nor the hull area to mount them on. Further, they probably have very small stocks of torpedoes (a dozen or two micro-torpedoes compared to the hundreds of full-up ones on a starship) and probably can only run their reactors at combat output for a short while before exhausting their fuel-so combat time is limited too, however effective they may be during that time. If you took one to Earth from DS9, I suspect you'd be making off-screen refueling stops. Things Runabouts Can't Do: Survive on-screen without major characters on-board.īut basically, yeah, they have really short legs. They would have had a hell of a fight on their hands, and it's likely the Odyssey would have made it home in one piece. Imagine the Odyssey and the Enterprise D had been in the Gamma Quadrant when they were attacked by the Jem'Hedar. Third, they're not as useful in a fight as a starship, despite their success in DS9. The runabout is basically just a few times the size of a shuttle. Starships are optimal for transporting large amounts of people and/or cargo. It was nothing for the Enterprise D to transport an entire village of hundreds of people from their doomed world to a new settlement. Second, and most obviously, they come at a big cost of space.
How many times did we see the Enterprise, Enterprise D, Voyager, and NX-01 saved by their ability to study scientific phenomena, from tears in space to viruses? Whether it's a big, beautiful Galaxy-class or an older Miranda-class, you want the real thing when it comes to exploration, because that's primarily what they're built for. If you want to study a spatial anomaly, you simply don't send a runabout if you have a starship available. That said? They do make compromises.įirst, and perhaps most importantly, runabouts lack the scientific instruments and massive computer processing and memory of starships, even older ones. They're more powerful than shuttlecraft, but smaller and more maneuverable than starships. Runabouts are a wonderful mid-point between starships and shuttlecraft. I'm sorry this got so long thanks for reading. And those systems are darn fickle, especially whilst being shot at. They must have a micro warp drive of some such system. But it seems that they work pretty darn well. Maybe runabouts have a lot of off screen routine maintenance, kind of like a modern fighter jet. Stuff is constantly being fixed and serviced. It may have decreased range or utility but that never seems to come up.Īlso all of this can be done with a standard crew of 2.įurthermore in pretty much all of Trek maintenance is a very real and important thing. It seems to have a full power transporter that are completely computer operated. Including type 7,8, or 9 phasers, Micro torpedoes, ans sometimes regular torpedoes too. I'm guessing warp 6 or 7 in the TNG scale.
Another issue is that a general purpose ship like a runabout can't be a snail as it would lose all utility. I'm not saying that a runabout doesn't have those facilities, they do in the back room, but its an often unused feature. They must be able to attain a fairly high warp factor as they can travel interplanetary space fast enough so the crew doesn't need to sleep and eat. They seem to have reasonably good shielding: they can withstand several direct hits from standard weaponry, including Klingon disruptors, Federation phasers, Kardasian ummm. They seems that they have very long range, there is dialog about taking one all the way to earth. I'm a huge fan of star ship specs and ratings and abilities, and I can't seem to figure out what a Runabout can't do. I have been watching DS9 all the way thru for the first time. Hello All! first post on the institute here.
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