Main Engineering Set Construction (NV/P2)

[Bixby]

I'm looking at different photos of the engineering room, and I just Wonder how anyone can climb up what looks like a stairway in the back to get up to that second-floor walkway. It looks like no person was ever intended to climb up there...

 

[GSchnitzer]

I'm looking at different photos of the engineering room, and I just Wonder how anyone can climb up what looks like a stairway in the back to get up to that second-floor walkway. It looks like no person was ever intended to climb up there...

Four members of the boarding party descend the stairs/ladder in "The Doomsday Machine."

 

[feek61]

Spock climbs up and down the ladder in "That Which Survives"

 

[GSchnitzer]

And Kirk starts up them in "The Changeling."

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

Don't some Klingons go up or down it in "Day of the Dove"? (Or maybe we just see them up there.)

 

[Bixby]

Looking at the very latest construction video by STC, it looks like what is there is more a ladder than a stairway.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I'm looking at different photos of the engineering room, and I just Wonder how anyone can climb up what looks like a stairway in the back to get up to that second-floor walkway. It looks like no person was ever intended to climb up there...

Four members of the boarding party descend the stairs/ladder in "The Doomsday Machine."

Spock climbs up and down the ladder in "That Which Survives"

And Kirk starts up them in "The Changeling."

William Shatner also descends them in this NBC promo for STAR TREK's third season:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQW3dfW2kyg[/yt]