Star Trek: 10 More Secrets Of The USS Enterprise D You Need To Know

10. We DID See The Main Shuttlebay

So let's start with a mea culpa.

In our previous rundown of the 10 Secrets of the USS Enterprise-D You Need to Know, we told you that the Enterprise-D's main shuttlebay never appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation due to budgetary constraints. Turns out that was wrong.

Nearly all of the scenes in TNG set in one of the ship's three shuttlebays featured the two smaller bays, shuttlebay 2 and 3. However, a small piece of the main shuttlebay did appear outside the window of Data and Worf's shuttlecraft in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II". Moreover, we also given a clearer look at the main shuttlebay's interior in season five's "Cause and Effect".

In that episode, the main shuttlebay was decompressed in order to push the Enterprise out of the way of the USS Bozeman and avoid a catastrophic collision. For its brief appearance in that episode, the main shuttlebay was a large miniature model built by Ed Miarecki. While we never saw an actual set of the main shuttlebay, Miarecki's impressive model – with a working bay door and two type-7 shuttlecraft – definitely still counts.