True. But then that retcon was retconned in Generations, as mentioned upthread
Why was engineering walled off?
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There was some discussion on the board about offices for certain officers on the Enterprise.
I remember reading or perhaps a picture that showed that there's the main engineers office behind the wall facing the "windscreen" towards warpcore.
I made the arrow to show the location *bragz*
I remember reading or perhaps a picture that showed that there's the main engineers office behind the wall facing the "windscreen" towards warpcore.
I made the arrow to show the location *bragz*
I thought that area in front of the arrow was considered the chief engineer's "office"? Memory Alpha calls it that.
It has that weird little corridor leading to where you point the red arrow. We don't know what's supposed to be there in-universe. In the real world, there was nothing there. You would bump up to the main corridor and turbolift:
It has that weird little corridor leading to where you point the red arrow. We don't know what's supposed to be there in-universe. In the real world, there was nothing there. You would bump up to the main corridor and turbolift:
IIRC in "Ship in a Bottle" at one point Picard asks HoloGeordi to leave him and Data alone for a few seconds and Geordi walks off away from the usual entrance to the 'office' and I always wondered WTH he disappeared to. I can't remember whether there's the sound of a door opening.
It could be the office, it's just that there's a whole lot of people walking there doing their duties.
Doesn't mean it's not the office though.
This is something I or we need to take a closer look at next time watching the episodes, I remember Geordi going there in 'Ship in a Bottle' like mentioned above.
Also, why do I remember Picard walking though that same "corridor" at some point....
Perhaps there's an office that has a door to a hallway, who knows....
That's certainly how the set seems to be laid out:
The door was always there, just hidden behind that partition wall which sticks out. I doubt there would be a good camera angle which ever showed the door from the Engineer's Office.
That's certainly how the set seems to be laid out:
The door was always there, just hidden behind that partition wall which sticks out. I doubt there would be a good camera angle which ever showed the door from the Engineer's Office.
I checked the TNG Enterprise Blueprints set, and it just has that as a sort of closet-like empty space tucked into the corner between two corridors. But then, those blueprints were somewhat inaccurate, e.g. showing no sign of the arboretum that was supposed to be beneath the array of windows on the upper rear of the saucer, or of the Jefferies tubes that run over Ten Forward according to "Power Play."
In addition, both Sternbach and Whitefire's deck plans truncate Main Engineering somewhat by removing the section of the set that contains the wall plugs. Does that make this whole thread moot?
The "main corridor" in the blueprint goes behind the Engineers office we see on screen and the corridor is where there is a wall in engineering.
However in engineering the floor looks like there should be a corridor but there isn't so.... I guess that's the thing with same stage used on many sets.
However in engineering the floor looks like there should be a corridor but there isn't so.... I guess that's the thing with same stage used on many sets.
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