The briefing room doesn't need a turbolift to get to from the bridge, right? It's right behind the bridge, you just walk through a door. It's like saying they took a turbolift from the bridge to Picard's office.
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The briefing room doesn't need a turbolift to get to from the bridge, right? It's right behind the bridge, you just walk through a door. It's like saying they took a turbolift from the bridge to Picard's office.
Mistakes happen. Which book is this from? If it's an earlier book, then there's always a chance the author hadn't seen the show, or set up of the ship yet.
It's The Romulan Prize by Simon Hawke. It was TNG #26, published in 1993. Since Ro's in it, it must be 5th or 6th season.
Still, I can understand a writer falling back on TOS-era assumptions, like using the term "briefing room" instead of "observation lounge" and assuming it's not on the bridge deck. It's the kind of oversight that can happen if you're not careful. Sort of the flipside of when people use TNG terms like "away team" or "warp core" in TOS novels.
Still, I can understand a writer falling back on TOS-era assumptions, like using the term "briefing room" instead of "observation lounge" and assuming it's not on the bridge deck. It's the kind of oversight that can happen if you're not careful. Sort of the flipside of when people use TNG terms like "away team" or "warp core" in TOS novels.
Who knows, maybe the Enterprise-D has an actual briefing room separate from the observation lounge, and we just never saw it in the show. The ship is large enough it could accommodate many different meeting spaces.
Quite so, especially when you consider how many lounges we saw were aboard the ship in that walk-around demo for the Oculus Rift that was going around last year.
The TOS Enterprise had several briefing rooms, according to FJS's blueprints. Why not the TNG Enterprise?
...It's ironic that the facility behind the bridge is only called Observation Lounge in an early production error/flip-flop, having been intended to be a Briefing Room initially, while Lounges originally were random no-business, recreation-only rooms such as the one seen in "Justice".
There are those couple of early episodes where the Deck 1 Observation Lounge had a steep ramp leading to it, as if from some facility half a deck higher at least. Perhaps signs of repairs going on, with the ramp installed to cover the open manhole? If that sort of repair is an annual event, perhaps the heroes in The Romulan Prize had to do a grand tour via Main Engineering just to get around it?
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There are those couple of early episodes where the Deck 1 Observation Lounge had a steep ramp leading to it, as if from some facility half a deck higher at least. Perhaps signs of repairs going on, with the ramp installed to cover the open manhole? If that sort of repair is an annual event, perhaps the heroes in The Romulan Prize had to do a grand tour via Main Engineering just to get around it?
Timo Saloniemi
There was also the case in The Last Outpost where they had a corridor outside the lounge that should have lead to open space but two children were able to head off down it ok:
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x05/lastoutpost118.jpg
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s1/1x05/lastoutpost118.jpg
That's probably the case, but why go to the trouble of taking the lift to one of the more distant conference rooms when the lounge is right there? This is just a mistake nobody caught. And it's easy enough to ignore the "stage direction" and assume they just went back to the lounge, since there's no dialogue within or pertaining to the turbolift.
The children had their annual Captain Picard Day drawings on display there.
Or, perhaps unlike the observation lounge, this room had no windows (correct me if I'm wrong). Picard wants everybody's complete attention.
Riker (thinking dreamily): "That nebula looks just like Deanna's lips..."
Picard: "Mr. Riker? Number One?"
Riker: "What-huh? Oh, sorry, sir. Just-" *smiles embarassed-like* "-thinking."
Picard (sternly): "There will be no wool-gathering on duty!"
Riker (thinking dreamily): "That nebula looks just like Deanna's lips..."
Picard: "Mr. Riker? Number One?"
Riker: "What-huh? Oh, sorry, sir. Just-" *smiles embarassed-like* "-thinking."
Picard (sternly): "There will be no wool-gathering on duty!"
That's a hell of a pickup from one page, Christopher!
Yes, after being a dedicated relaunch reader for quite some time, I picked up three old 'set within the series' TNG novels for 50c each at the 2nd hand bookstore and am quite enjoying some 'old school' TrekLit for a change.
The other two I picked up were 'Here There Be Dragons' and 'Requiem'- anyone know if these two are worth reading? They all have >3 stars on Goodreads.
I'll tell you one thing I've noticed about 'The Romulan Prize'. Every chapter seems to start with a strange recap of the character written from the perspective of smoeone who hasn't seen the show. So Chapter One had several pages about who Ensign Ro was and how she ended up on the Enterprise, and now Chapter Three has gone on for several pages about how Data established his status as a sentient being, even though it doesn't seem to have any immediate bearing on events to hand.
Not really, since The Romulan Prize and Bob Greenberger's The Romulan Stratagem are pretty much the only two Romulan-centric TNG novels set during the series. So I had a 50/50 chance. And since that page shows the crew talking about an abandoned Romulan warbird that they've taken over -- in other words, a prize ship -- that pretty much settled it. I just had to look up The Romulan Prize on Google Books and scroll to p. 47 to confirm it. (And it's a good thing I did look it up, because I got it confused with Stratagem and almost attributed it to Bob!)
I don't think I ever noticed before that one of those children was Vulcan.
^^I seem to recall a Vulcan family during the saucer separation sequence in Farpoint.
That's so funny, I was just thinking that yesterday (because I'd been reading about the new RPG and thinking about what would make a good session).
Maybe the observation lounge was closed for the inner bulkhead to be replaced, so they had to use one of the other briefing room suites elsewhere in the ship.
