U.S.S. Enterprise - how many decks?

[CaptChris42]

The Man Trap:
SULU: Bridge. Sulu. Trouble on deck nine, section two. We need a medical team.

<Since this was early season one when the saucer had 20+ decks, it would probably be around deck 6 after mid-season when the saucer was corrected to have about 11 decks. If we keep the deck 9 reference, this still works but deck 9 would be a smallish diameter corridor. YMMV>

Well, my reference was from Star Trek: Nemesis, in this instance.

 

[David cgc]

In fact I'd heard the script was initially cited as something like 'Deck NINE section twenty' - somewhere?

I'm not sure about that, but the doors when Riker and Worf encounter the boarding party seem to indicate that happens on deck nine. I'd assumed they were cutting them off there, having redirected to intercept them off-screen, though if you're not reading the door visible in one split-second shot and just taking the dialog, it certainly seems like they went to deck 29, Riker followed the Viceroy down to deck 30, and then they landed on a ramp on deck 31 in a shaft that extended down to something like deck 40 (it's a little hard to tell whether there are one or two crawlways entering the shaft per deck).

The script on-line says "twenty-nine," though. It could've just been something the production team did on their own initiative when they were breaking out the script and trying to figure out how to make a bottomless shaft that starts at the bottom of the ship. Just imply the fight actually took place in the middle of the ship, and the Remans made it pretty far up before they were stopped.

 

[blssdwlf]

I'm not sure about that, but the doors when Riker and Worf encounter the boarding party seem to indicate that happens on deck nine. I'd assumed they were cutting them off there, having redirected to intercept them off-screen, though if you're not reading the door visible in one split-second shot and just taking the dialog, it certainly seems like they went to deck 29, Riker followed the Viceroy down to deck 30, and then they landed on a ramp on deck 31 in a shaft that extended down to something like deck 40 (it's a little hard to tell whether there are one or two crawlways entering the shaft per deck).

The script on-line says "twenty-nine," though. It could've just been something the production team did on their own initiative when they were breaking out the script and trying to figure out how to make a bottomless shaft that starts at the bottom of the ship. Just imply the fight actually took place in the middle of the ship, and the Remans made it pretty far up before they were stopped.

That is a reasonable interpretation. You could even take it another step and say that there was a security detail that preceded Riker and Worf's team to Deck 29 and either didn't find the Remans or were killed. Riker and Worf's team just by chance encountered the Remans on Deck 9 on their way to meet up with the security detail.

 

[Ensign_Rowan_McGrath]

So no other team intercepted them between 9 and 29? Where was the rest of the crew? The Remans would have needed to pass near Engineering as well. I think it's a massive script error that needs a TMP correction (same in FC with Daniels' line). Thus Vkruk can end up falling from Deck 9 down to Deck 24.

 

[blssdwlf]

So no other team intercepted them between 9 and 29? Where was the rest of the crew? The Remans would have needed to pass near Engineering as well. I think it's a massive script error that needs a TMP correction (same in FC with Daniels' line). Thus Vkruk can end up falling from Deck 9 down to Deck 24.

Maybe the other teams worth not mentioning? There could be a trail of dead crewman left behind where Viceroy's boarding party fought through. Shinzon's orders to Viceroy was to "Prepare a boarding party... Bring me Picard!" so the boarding party would've beelined to the Enterprise's bridge and not get bogged down too much in combat, IMHO.

Of course we do have questions of why Riker and Worf's team couldn't scan and find exactly where the Remans were or erect security fields to stop them...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Maybe the other teams worth not mentioning? There could be a trail of dead crewman left behind where Viceroy's boarding party fought through. Shinzon's orders to Viceroy was to "Prepare a boarding party... Bring me Picard!" so the boarding party would've beelined to the Enterprise's bridge and not get bogged down too much in combat, IMHO.

Of course we do have questions of why Riker and Worf's team couldn't scan and find exactly where the Remans were or erect security fields to stop them...

Well if they could do that there'd be no movie lol

 

[Ithekro]

Not sure about on a Sovereign-class, but on a Galaxy-class they could easily move floor to floor without encountering anyone. There is a lot of hallways for a ship with less than a thousand people on it.