Good work legendofzombi - this is coming along nicely - I am really looking forward to seeing this come together. I never really got too into DS9 - but I always thought this space station was pretty cool.

sorry I can't help with some of the problems - I was going to suggest normals for that dark area, as I think I have a similar situation on one of my models... or maybe you don't have enough geometry in that part. Have you tried deleting the area and remaking it? Just a thought.

Hope you sort it out.