What Set Was Missing Fron TOS?

[Wingsley]

Why are they in freefall walking around on the top of NX-01's saucer when there's gravity plating just a few feet below them? What is it with SF shows and movies that they think ship hulls could somehow be opaque to gravity (or that gravity is like sound and only works in an atmosphere)?

We don't really know how artificial gravity works in the STAR TREK Universe. If we accept the "grav deckplate" model, then perhaps it is possible the ship's outer hull would be "out of range". In other words, when Mirror-Commander Archer ordered Mirror-T'Pol to increase the gravity on the Defiant's deck in ENT's "In a Mirror, Darkly", perhaps the effect is localized from the floor to the ceiling and not beyond. This would mean that anyone still looking for the Gorn on the next deck up would not be affected.

 

[KirksStuntMan]

Here's what I'd like to see built into the bridge area: A mini-transporter pad for emergency exits and quick shore leaves down to Wrigley's Pleasure Planet.

 

[GSchnitzer]

There's another missing set that TOS could've benefitted from:

An isolation ward section of Sickbay. As in ENT, a landing party needs a secluded spot adjacent to Sickbay where injured, and possibly infected or irradiated/poisoned landing party personnel can be quarantined for brief periods after returning to the ship. It would be interesting if Sickbay included a "decontamination" facility like this, possibly with a small, two- or three-man transporter alcove to beam up injured parties.

We saw an isolation ward in "Turnabout Intruder." It's where "Janice Lester" was being kept. (Dramatically, she had to be kept someplace other than the regular Sickbay because McCoy had "Kirk" in and out of Sickbay running tests on him, and we couldn't have Kirk and Lester bumping into each other early in the episode.)

A shot of the signage outside Lester's room reads "Astro-Medicine Isolation Ward:"

 

[erastus25]

There's another missing set that TOS could've benefitted from:

An isolation ward section of Sickbay. As in ENT, a landing party needs a secluded spot adjacent to Sickbay where injured, and possibly infected or irradiated/poisoned landing party personnel can be quarantined for brief periods after returning to the ship. It would be interesting if Sickbay included a "decontamination" facility like this, possibly with a small, two- or three-man transporter alcove to beam up injured parties.

We saw an isolation ward in "Turnabout Intruder." It's where "Janice Lester" was being kept. (Dramatically, she had to be kept someplace other than the regular Sickbay because McCoy had "Kirk" in and out of Sickbay running tests on him, and we couldn't have Kirk and Lester bumping into each other early in the episode.)

A shot of the signage outside Lester's room reads "Astro-Medicine Isolation Ward:"

We also see a decontamination sequence in The Naked Time, suggesting that the iso ward often isn't needed. Although, considering how well htat worked, maybe they built the iso room after that episode!

 

[Timewalker]

Cant see Kirk having a ready room, never really liked the idea, he was a hands-on captain rather than wanting to lock himself away from the crew. What's wrong with conducting the ships business from your quarters anyway?

Didn't Kirk have an office attached to his quarters?

As for the ready room, in TOS they held meetings in the briefing room. I don't recall where they had meetings in TNG - Picard's ready room wasn't really big enough, was it? Ditto DS9. In Voyager, Janeway's ready room was large enough for meetings, so she didn't need a separate briefing room.

 

[plynch]

Where is the term "ready room" derived? Navy? Made up?

 

[Wingsley]

"Make it so!"

 

[Maurice]

Well, they had to pay Harlan for the first four or five rewrites, that might have something to do with it...

I doubt that was a serious impact on the show budget.

 

[Christopher]

Didn't Kirk have an office attached to his quarters?

No, just a two-room suite with a sleeping area and a "living room"/work area (and a never-seen bathroom).

I don't recall where they had meetings in TNG - Picard's ready room wasn't really big enough, was it? Ditto DS9. In Voyager, Janeway's ready room was large enough for meetings, so she didn't need a separate briefing room.

In both TNG and VGR, they held meetings in the ships' respective observation lounges -- behind the bridge in TNG, in front of the bridge and opposite the ready room in VGR (and Janeway's ready room was to starboard while Picard's was to port). In DS9, meetings were held around the situation table in ops. In all cases, some smaller or more private meetings were held in the captains' offices.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Didn't Kirk have an office attached to his quarters?

No, just a two-room suite with a sleeping area and a "living room"/work area (and a never-seen bathroom).

Interestingly, his quarters in ST VI were almost the same, layout-wise, as the sleeping area half of the TMP version. The door, the food slot, the bunk, the closet, everything. Even the sonic shower was the same.

Makes me wonder if he still had a 'living room' which just happened to be out of shot in ST VI. Perhaps it was protected by a solid door this time and so that's why we couldn't see it? I mean, come on, why wouldn't the freaking CAPTAIN get a bigger room than what we saw in that film? Enlisteds and junior officers get rooms that small. Not KIRK!

 

[RAMA]

Cetacean Ops, because if the UFP can have respect for alien life, they can have it for Earthly life as well.

The computer core.

 

[scotpens]

Where is the term "ready room" derived? Navy? Made up?

Aircraft carriers have ready rooms for the on-duty pilots, but they serve a different function than the captain’s “ready room” in any of the Trek incarnations.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Where is the term "ready room" derived? Navy? Made up?

When it was introduced in TNG, we decided that the Ready Room was where Bev Crusher would slip in, get naked, and call out to Picard, "I'm ready!"

 

[RandyS]

Cant see Kirk having a ready room, never really liked the idea, he was a hands-on captain rather than wanting to lock himself away from the crew. What's wrong with conducting the ships business from your quarters anyway?

Didn't Kirk have an office attached to his quarters?

As for the ready room, in TOS they held meetings in the briefing room. I don't recall where they had meetings in TNG - Picard's ready room wasn't really big enough, was it? Ditto DS9. In Voyager, Janeway's ready room was large enough for meetings, so she didn't need a separate briefing room.

On TNG the briefing room (they called it the observation lounge) was right behind the bridge.

 

[plynch]

In re. Kirk's bathroom. Doesn't Elaan come out from it? Or maybe go in and change? Why am I remembering fuzzily something about it from her ep?

 

[Captain Robert April]

^ Bingo.

 

[SchwEnt]

Wasn't it Uhura's bathroom, since Elaan was using her quarters for the voyage?

 

[KirksStuntMan]

Wasn't it Uhura's bathroom, since Elaan was using her quarters for the voyage?

...and the Final Jeopardy answer is..."What are Uhura's quarters?!!!! And you're the new Jeopardy champion!!!!"

Good job on spotting that!

 

[TIN_MAN]

It was Marlena Moreau, the "Captain's Woman" in MIrror, Mirror who came out of Kirk's bathroom, after slipping into something more comfortable.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ But that was on the ISS Enterprise.