What unseen parts of the ship do you wish we saw?

[Greg Cox]

Did they ever actually mention a swimming pool? I wrote one into my (shelved) nuTrek novel, but never heard back on whether that was approved.

I can't imagine a swimming pool on board a ship where the artificial gravity could fail suddenly...

But yeah, it would have been nice to see the bowling alley.

Then again, when has the artificial gravity on the Enterprise ever failed? That's the most reliable system on the ship!

 

[Timewalker]

Did they ever actually mention a swimming pool? I wrote one into my (shelved) nuTrek novel, but never heard back on whether that was approved.

I can't imagine a swimming pool on board a ship where the artificial gravity could fail suddenly...

But yeah, it would have been nice to see the bowling alley.

Then again, when has the artificial gravity on the Enterprise ever failed? That's the most reliable system on the ship!

I believe it failed in one of the TAS episodes, if I'm remembering rightly. At the very least, the inertial dampers (or whatever they're called that always fail so everybody falls out of their chairs); can you imagine the mess of all that water sloshing around when the ship is left hanging in space at a rakish angle?

 

[Greg Cox]

I can't imagine a swimming pool on board a ship where the artificial gravity could fail suddenly...

But yeah, it would have been nice to see the bowling alley.

Then again, when has the artificial gravity on the Enterprise ever failed? That's the most reliable system on the ship!

I believe it failed in one of the TAS episodes, if I'm remembering rightly. At the very least, the inertial dampers (or whatever they're called that always fail so everybody falls out of their chairs); can you imagine the mess of all that water sloshing around when the ship is left hanging in space at a rakish angle?

Ah, but clearly they seal off the pool with a force field every time the ship goes to yellow alert!

"Klingon attack! Everyone out of the pool!"

 

[Mysterion]

^^^
And if whatever caused the gravity field generators to fail also causes the force field generator to also fail?

 

[Greg Cox]

^^^
And if whatever caused the gravity field generators to fail also causes the force field generator to also fail?

That's what the emergency backup pool cover is for!

And, honestly, if the gravity and force fields have failed, the Enterprise probably has bigger problems than the pool sloshing over!

The real question, of course, is what rank are the lifeguards?

 

[nightwind1]

The episodes don't feature references, no. The first source to mention a pool would appear to be Shane Johnson's Mr Scott's Guide...

Sorry, Timo. Usually you are THE go-to guy for info, but the pool first appeared in the FJ Blueprints, long before the Johnson book.

EDIT: Damn, scooped! Numerous times...

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

I wish we'd seen every inch of it!

A few off the top of my head I'd love to have seen :

• Observation deck(s)

Don't we see that in Conscience of the King, when he takes Lenore through it and she talks about the "throbbing power" of the ship.

 

[MANT!]

The main computer core...

ohh.. blinking lights on grey boxes...

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

A much bigger aboretum/botanical garden.

I always found the one on The Man Trap was quite large. I think it might have been larger before Beauregard went postal and ate most of the other plants (or strangled them to death with his head which was oddly shaped like a human hand wearing a sock puppet)!

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

I know it would not have been possible given the era to show this on TV, but it would have been interesting to see the men's room. You know, watching Kirk, Bones, and Spock making small talk while sharing a leak at the urinals. Bones making a snide remark about Spock's urine color or penis-size, you know?

 

[T'Bonz]

I know it would not have been possible given the era to show this on TV, but it would have been interesting to see the men's room. You know, watching Kirk, Bones, and Spock making small talk while sharing a leak at the urinals. Bones making a snide remark about Spock's urine color or penis-size, you know?

You're kidding me, right? Who gives a fuck about seeing futuristic men taking a piss or how futuristic toilets/urinals might be designed.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

I know it would not have been possible given the era to show this on TV, but it would have been interesting to see the men's room. You know, watching Kirk, Bones, and Spock making small talk while sharing a leak at the urinals. Bones making a snide remark about Spock's urine color or penis-size, you know?

You're kidding me, right? Who gives a fuck about seeing futuristic men taking a piss or how futuristic toilets/urinals might be designed.

I'm not suggesting it should be so graphic that we actually "see" them taking a piss, but I think it might have made a cool light scene where they exchange some small talk just before the intercom comes on and Kirk rushes over to it to discover that: a) the ship has encountered a strange object, and b) he really should shake twice if he wants to keep his boots dry!

 

[T'Bonz]

Eh. Potty stuff just never interested me.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

I promise I'll stop after this one:

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Good topic.

Thanks!

Thinking on this more, I think it really would've been fascinating to see some of the setup for the nacelles. A TMP-style matter/anti-matter reactor could've been cool. And I would've loved to be able to see more of the Jeffries Tubes.

I definitely agree that a larger botanical garden or rec room would've been something to see.

 

[Warped9]

We saw a larger botanical area in third season's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"

 

[JonnyQuest037]

We saw a larger botanical area in third season's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"

Wasn't that scene cut? Been a loooooong time since I've seen that episode.

 

[Warped9]

We saw a larger botanical area in third season's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"

Wasn't that scene cut? Been a loooooong time since I've seen that episode.

You might be thinking of "Elaan Of Troyius" where a scene set in the botanical garden area was cut. But there is another in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" where Kirk takes Miranda Jones to the ship's arboretum. I just rewatched the episode on dvd not more than a week or so ago.

 

[Wingsley]

Back to the O.P.:

TOS did show us some interesting "miscellaneous work areas", some of which were obviously cobbled together out of other existing sets. Examples were the botany facility in "The Man Trap" (an obvious redress of Sickbay) and the ship's theatre/rec room in "The Conscience of the King" (another redress, this time of Engineering). Perhaps the most interesting cobble jobs were Auxiliary Control and the Weapons Control Room ("Balance of Terror"), both of which were apparently derived from Engineering as well.

The notion of exploring a ship's cargo hold is an obvious possibility. I would also have liked to see more science labs. Another thing we never saw in TOS was an airlock or docking port. But probably the most fun would have been seeing the fabled 22-man transporter room. (! ! !)

I would also have liked to see more crew work rooms, like a deep space communications room where specialists process data, decode messages and scan the spectrum to find unheard messages to feed up to Uhura's station.

It would also be great to see the under-hangar-deck facility, where shuttlecraft and probes would be stored, maintained, and assembled/dismantled.

With the exception of "The Tholian Web", we never got to see Enterprise personnel in spacesuits. If we could go back to revisit TOS, I would want to see Scotty walking on the Enterprise's hull, making repairs, in a space walk similar to FIRST CONTACT. I think it would be great to show the Enterprise out on the frontier, isolated from any backup, when the ship suffers damage in a daring mission. Then we could see Scotty trying to repair the ship on a tight, demanding schedule, placing himself and his team at risk to get the ship running again.

It would also be great to see a TOS-era version of the Travel Pod or Work Bee as well.

Another non-Enterprise aspect of TOS that was never properly explored would be Cyrano Jones' mysterious scoutship. What if Unit XY-75847, mentioned in "Errand of Mercy", had actually been Jones (or one of his peers) spying on the Klingon Fleet? There's a wealth of story possibilities there...

 

[Warped9]

It would also be great to see the under-hangar-deck facility, where shuttlecraft and probes would be stored, maintained, and assembled/dismantled.

Man, I would have loved to see that.