Yeah DS9 needs a SERIOUS overhaul. The place is supposed to be a major social hub (even more so with the new FE series being centered there). I'm not sure why it feels so rushed, but there is plenty of reference material to work from considering it played a prominent role in nearly every episode of DS9 the series.

It just feels a little sad right now.

A note of caution on these ones: it looks like they are fairly early plans, as the actual sets had the holding cells connected to the Security Office instead of separate on the Promenade, and there was no transporter room on the Promenade (the only DS9 transporter pads I can recall ever seeing are the ones in Ops).

This isn't actually the case. There's a couple times where we see civilians beaming in on a set of transporter pads on the Promenade- mostly people from Bajor.

As I posted over on CO:

I'm cleaning up Bajor . . . no, not the Cardassian way.

Lost opportunity, man. Lost opportunity.

Have you been talking to the J-Man again!?

Just as a rough estimate, I imagine DS9 is at least as far out as Pluto and Bajor's star is about one solar mass, which would give it an apparent magnitude of -19 whereas a full moon is -12. So, it is probably at best 1000 times brighter than a full moon but at least 1000 times dimmer than the sun.

So, it is not going to be bright enough to light the Bajor side of the station through the windows, but it is going to be bright enough that it is still pretty bright during a blackout.

One major addition to DS9 in my opinion, would be the security officer (Odo's office) including Brig, as well as the Infirmary (proper sickbay).

Secondly, add the "Starfleet Academy" chair tech to most chairs around the station, most notably at Quark's.

And finally, add a "Holosuite" or two to the second level of Quark's, even if it's just for show.

Riiiiiight.

We should start calling you "Gul Tumerboy."

I'm sure Gul Borticus got to you with his Obsidian Order Bajoran-purging rhetoric.

The beauty of the wadtroom set is that most of the quarters and non-promenade sets are basically just this set with walls pushed around and different furniture.

One thing I'd like to see considered as STO goes forward is how many sets are redresses and how that can save on effort.

If you do a Galaxy class replica interior, for example, you'll already have most of what you need for an Enterprise-A interior (or vice versa) since they're the same sets with a few props moved around and a different coat of paint. The Enterprise-A bridge is even on a Galaxy as the Battle Bridge.

Likewise, the Defiant interior was redressed as the NX interior, if memory serves, while most Ferengi ship sets after the introduction of the Defiant were also the Defiant set.

Heck, Grand Nagus Zek's office on Ferenginar is basically the Bajoran temple from DS9; the floor pattern is even intact.

There is one colony set that got reused heavily on TNG, DS9, and Voyager and I think mocking it up and setting it up to be redecoed:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/in...s/villages.htm

There are actually a bunch.

I figure if you recycle the sets that were recycled on the shows, it will trigger with people as authentic.