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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] As for the giant pit, they could've been on an upper level. It's fairly clear that deck numbers do not always equal level numbers. Defiant: 4 levels, at least 5 decks Ent-A: ~21 levels, at least 78 decks Ent-E: 24 levels, at least 26 decks (FC). Ent-E: 24 levels, at least 29 decks (Nemesis). Enterprise: the deck letters in dialogue supposedly do not correspond to observed damage (I haven't seen the show so I can't verify). There will be more examples. It's fairly clear that Starfleet's deck designations are more like addresses -- after all, if all you're doing is traveling by turbolift, what's the purpose of a regular system? It's easier to say Deck 78 than Deck 13, Section 5C. In the future, the writers simply need to affirm this system by using deck numbers that are so high that no viewer can confuse them for level numbers (i.e. Deck 132 instead of Deck 4, section 6), with a few *carefully planned* references to "Level 5, Deck 78" or "Level 3, Deck 6", as well as a couple of hallways labeled "132..133" as we run along. This ought to clear up the confusion for any viewer. BTW, Babylon 5 had the exact same problem, but they seem to have fixed it later on. In the early shows, they referred excessively to things like "Red 5, Level 3" or "Brown 7, Level 2", supposedly because the station was divided into discrete colored cylinders divided into 36 pie slices (10 degrees each). So you'd specify the sector color first, then the section, and then the level of the section. After a while, we began to see Blue offices in the Garden and Brown areas all over the station (basically, wherever the story required them), with the obvious conclusion that the associated numbers couldn't stand for section numbers any more, or we'd have such cases as multiple Blue 5's all over the station. Guess what -- starting with season 2, we lose the "level" and gain higher numbers after the color, resulting in Brown 95, Blue 95 and similar designations. The numbers sometimes correspond to levels, sometimes not -- they basically seem to be addresses distinguishing the Blue patch in the Garden from the Blue patch near the Zocalo. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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