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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] Guardian2000: Actually, I think Sulu's popup tactical scanner did have a fair bit of flexibility to it. In one of the episodes where Kirk and Spock on lost on a planet surface (I think it was "Who Mourns for Adonis?" but I'm not sure) where Sulu is scanning the entire planet surface for their life signs with the scanner. I also believe that "The Lights of Zetar" show it being used for scientific purposes (in this case detecting the navigational hazard coming up: the Zetars). So... the helm/nav unit seemed to be a model for flexibility and redundancy that would come with LCARS. CaptainMike stole my example of showing what you said as well. The bridge in The Original Series was simply a command center. Orders were giving from the bridge and sent to the crew members operating a particular part of the ship to execute the commands. Case in point, Tomlinson's phaser crew in "Balance of Terror." Plus, I believe targetemployee cited an example from another TOS episode where Spock has the nuclear engineering lab working on a problem. So, basically, every crew member on these ships has a job to do, whether it's manning a torpedo bay, monitoring antimatter pods, plotting navigational routes, or mopping up vomit in the mess hall. So, you make sense. In many ways, the bridge of The Original Series matchs how I think the stations should be laid out. There's plenty of room for the crew members to sit and the controls and screens are all aligned for comfort. However, things aren't so spaced out that the CO (in a prime location) can't swivel around and read what the screens say (my big complaint with bridges like the Enterprise-D where it's incredibly spacey and where a lot of views are obstructed). For the good layouts also come the bad, though. I really don't like how three important stations -- Communications, Science, and Engineering -- face away from the main viewer. Indeeed, Kirk always had to swivel around a good deal to face them. Star Trek 2 corrected this by placing them more or less even with the command chair on either side. But, for effective of all possible control space, you're going to have someone facing the wrong direction. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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