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Cyclops (talk) 17:29, 2 April 2020 (PDT) So I noticed during game that the Phantom Class has an online sourced size of 80 x 94 x 18 meters. I never really thought about it before, until I posted the Archer Class Starship which has dimensions of 45 x 22.5 x 9 meters. I hadn't really noticed that the specs I got had the Phantom (X-70B from SW Old Republic) as being kind of huge. First of all it is listed as being wider than it is long (80 meters long and 90 meters wide). This is odd because it is depicted as being longer than it is wide, but they are pretty close so, easily fudged. However, I had originally assumed that the Archer Class was wrong, it is a fan-made class and so I did some looking.
The Archer Class has 3 decks, though 2 are not as tall as the middle deck. Hallways on homes measure about 10 feet tall, sourcing out some estimates of how they actually built the sets, one gets that the ST:TOS Enterprise had 10 feet ceilings but that some were possibly shortened briefly in ST:TMP to 8 foot ceilings. However, ST:TNG has 10 foot ceilings again, mostly for cameras to get around ok and allow actors to have good range of motion. So, let's assume a 10 foot ceiling. Now 10x3 is 30, we're assuming that extra space of bulkheads between the decks makes up for Deck 1 and 3 being shorter on the Archer Class. So 30 feet translates into about 9 meters, which is what the specs say the Archer should be.
I hadn't really thought about the dimensions of the Phantom before. In my personal opinion someone had no idea what a meter actually looked like or even cared. So using this same logic I did some ratio-math of saying the Phantom is 94 meters long / 18 meters tall. I can rough out how tall it should be because it is just one deck. Start out at 10 feet high, add a foot on top and bottom for bulkhead and machinery, and we have 12 feet tall. Translate that to meters and we have about 3.65 meters tall. This also fits in line with other small craft such as the Type 7 Shuttle Craft being not even 3 meters tall. So doing some ratio math to keep the same proportions of height, width, and length I came up with 19 x 16.2 x 3.7 meters.
This seems far more reasonable since the Phantom is a pretty small ship, and when I got to thinking about it. It says that the ship is 18 meters tall, even if we allow for an entire meter of hull on top and bottom that is still 16 meters tall. That would mean the ships interior is over 52 feet tall! That is clearly insane and absolutely absurd.