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The Enterprise-D bridge and ready room were contiguous; the observation lounge was never supposed to be directly attached to the bridge anyway.
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The Enterprise-D bridge and ready room were contiguous; the observation lounge was never supposed to be directly attached to the bridge anyway.
The Voyager observation lounge was a lot wider than the Enterprise-D, though not as long. Probably one reason why they designed it that way. I think it makes sense for the observation lounge to be connected to the bridge, anyway.
Well the "observation lounge" wasn't so much an observation lounge as it was a briefing room where the senior officers go to discuss the current problem in a "round table" like setting, so it makes perfect sense for that to be attached to the bridge.
For actual observation lounges where the people of the ship can go and watch the stars zoom by there's Ten Forward and the other, smaller lounges they liked to show in Season 1.
For actual observation lounges where the people of the ship can go and watch the stars zoom by there's Ten Forward and the other, smaller lounges they liked to show in Season 1.
At most the sources I can find suggest a short connecting corridor to navigate around the aft stations, whereas Voyager's definitely appears to be directly attached.
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The published Enterprise-D blueprints show a curving corridor that also leads to deck 2:
This was depicted by the Studio 9 project as a VERY nice staircase/mezzanine:
The set floor plans for studio 8 during TNG's production show the observation lounge was separate from the bridge/ready room set:
The set floor plans for studio 8 during Voyager's production show the conference room, bridge, and ready room were one single set:
There was an episode where a bunch of kids were playing in there in season 1 and riker shooed them out.
That was an early episode of Season 1, a lot of things hadn't been properly figured out at that point.
Whereas in later episodes exterior shots show it to be attached or close to the bridge, as seen on memory alpha:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Observation_lounge
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Again, going on the published blueprints it looks as though there's nothing to physically stop people accessing the observation lounge by just walking up the ramps from deck 2, and as deck 2 has a small number of crew quarters it's entirely possible that the children were simply "exploring".
We're not denying that it's close to the bridge, merely indicating that both in-universe and in terms of the physical set the observation lounge and the bridge on the Enterprise-D were not contiguous.
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We're not denying that it's close to the bridge, merely indicating that both in-universe and in terms of the physical set the observation lounge and the bridge on the Enterprise-D were not contiguous.[/QUOTE]
And I'm not denying that in-universe there can't be a little bit of corridor connecting it to the bridge like in that studio 9 project, just that it can't be any furhter away, and that a season 1 episode showing children playing in it doesn't mean much/anything.
We're not denying that it's close to the bridge, merely indicating that both in-universe and in terms of the physical set the observation lounge and the bridge on the Enterprise-D were not contiguous.[/QUOTE]
And I'm not denying that in-universe there can't be a little bit of corridor connecting it to the bridge like in that studio 9 project, just that it can't be any furhter away, and that a season 1 episode showing children playing in it doesn't mean much/anything.
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