In the examination room, it shows a mini transporter unit. Could this be seen on screen, or was it added for the plans?
Well, we don't ever get a look at the entirety of that left wall. We do, however, see a hooded viewer and what appear to be two control panels:
Thanks to this very small behind the scenes trading card image, we can see them a little more:
These panels and viewer certainly correspond to the Enterprise Flight Manual sheet containting
the medical transporter controls:
So, we know that the transporter controls are there. But was there ever a slot in the wall containting a small transporter unit as indicated by MSGTTE and other fan-made schematics? Perhaps much like the ones we see in the TMP bridge weapons station?
I personally don't think there was a transporter slot built into the set. If so, it would most likely be just below the rightmost panel on that wall, and that small trading card image would indicate there's nothing there below that panel. It could also be to the left of the panels and hooded viewer, out of frame, which is more likely. I could place one there perhaps.
Unless anyone has any better reference for this wall, we will have to rely on conjecture.
I have a practical concern here. The sets as designed intended what you have as examination rooms as an EOR as in the original, hence the direct access to the ward (and not all wards are ICU, unless you think in this century they only keep Intensive Care patients in sickbay). So from a practical standpoint, why would anyone put the OR between two doctor's offices instead of adjacent to the ward? Because with this layout to get an incapacitated patient in or out you need to turn the futuregurney 90 degrees, which means that sterile passage has to be 8' wide with no K-beams or
clunk.
Any thoughts on a proper medical lab? I always hated the way the sets built for Star Trek II (TV) made the a lab of this dinky foyer to McCoy's office. I suppose a proper one—with proper isolation for dealing with diseases—could be across the corridor along with the pharmacy and Dr. Bob Hartley's psychiatric couch, of course.
Don't be afraid to look at some of the TV concepts as possible a basis for new rooms. For instance, what Minor drew for McCoy's office and lab split the space differently (and I think the resulting set was a bit smaller).
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I agree with you, that having an operating room there is rather clunky. Especially since that sterile passageway has a raised floor running down the middle of it:
(This was because this corridor was built as connecting to the transporter room set, as that most of that set was up a step from the stage floor)
I could, of course, omit this raised floor, but my drive for screen accuracy is saying to keep it in.
OR, I could do what
@Maurice is suggesting and NOT have an operating room sandwiched between the two offices, therefore making the raised floor less an obstruction since it wouldn't need to be used for gurney-ing patients. And, given that the examination rooms could double as operating rooms (as they quite obviously do as evidenced by TWOK), it would make having a third and very similar room there a little redundant instead of, say, a proper medical lab.
Last night I was looking at various pieces of medical equipment around the TNG set and thought it would be nice to have TMP-era analogs to those devices, but was at a loss of where to put them. Creating a medical lab there between the offices would give me that space, actually. I'll keep going with this and brainstorm on what this lab could look like. Thanks for the suggestion!
Oh, and good point about having two intensive care wards. I could have the ward on the right be the intensive care ward, and the one on the left be...well...what would the proper medical term be for a ward for non-intensive care patients?
