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I'm guessing they didn't have a comm officer because they blatently didn't need one. Uhura was hardly the busiest officer on the ship, was she?
Main Engineering's last-minute-build nature is also shown in the set. Compared to TOS (comparitively, given the budget), Voyager's, and even Defiant's mid-season set-build, it's not overly impressive. The cast are essentially standing in a corridor around a large table. And as for Geordi's office... compared to that, Data could have declared Ops his "office" if he wanted.
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Well, they had no bathrooms to be their "office" so why not?
I actually prefer the Defiant's engineering to Voyager's it's more functional and Voyager's warpcore looks a bit like an aquarium.
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Yeah, what? Inasmuch as the Defiant's room was more compact, I dunno about more functional... If you want pointlessly UN-functional, try the E-E's engine room. Three decks tall, cavernous waste of interior space, and the reaction chamber is ten feet off the ground with NO easy way to access it as on the E-D et. al...
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I think that if it were written today, Uhura's job would be more to do with ops. As it is, she's the only officer in TOS who realy had any sort of job like that.
As for engine rooms, the E nil refit sure was pretty with all those lights. Stupid having the dilithium control room so far away from the warp core though.
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Well, if you assume that dilithium works the way it is later decided to, but nobody had thought of that at the time, so I don't think you can say it's intrinsically bad, so much as incongruous, which I'd call a lesser sin.
I think the problem with engineering sets is that, unlike a bridge, where the storytelling function (a room where all the characters get together in a relatively confined space and have lots of plot-related controls and monitors to manipulate) is pretty close to the fictional function (a room where the command crew can control the ship), "real" engine rooms ought to be much more complicated places, and so it's harder to produce a set that marries a convincing look with the necessities of storytelling.
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1. Excelsior had a "captain of engineering", so there is precedent for overreactions to new engines and techniques.
2. It's possible that extensive rotation of certain engineering personnel might've been useful if we presume the E-D to have been a bit of a test ship. As second of the class and with others under construction, having chiefs with real-world training on GCS systems might be good. On the other hand, it would make more sense to me to have them serve as XO to the real chief . . . but what do I know?
3. One possible advantage to the elevated warp core on the Sovereigns . . . no more tards trying to stick explosives on the warp core. Of course, this would only be really useful if the matter stream were coming from below in the new design, instead of above like usual.
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Of course, no crew can easily remove said explosives if they're beamed on either...
Mabye the Sovvie's core is seperated because the shield around it is projected from above or below and encapsulares it as much as possible. That way, if ejected in an emergency, it's detonation does not destroy the ship if it's still close.
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"3. One possible advantage to the elevated warp core on the Sovereigns . . . no more tards trying to stick explosives on the warp core. Of course, this would only be really useful if the matter stream were coming from below in the new design, instead of above like usual."
And assuming the bomb isn't magnetic, and they don't have the ability to toss it.
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Everyone is able to toss it: it's the first right assured under the Articles of The Federation.
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Scotty was promoted to Captain and made the engineer of the Excelsior to kiss his butt while they decommissioned the Enterprise. I don't think it really had anything to do with wanting the best and the brightest engineer aboard. It was pretty obvious that noone at Starfleet gave a crap about the Enterprise crew at that point.
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EXCEPT Scotty. Why would they want to kiss his capacious butt, and no one else's? Everyone else was given shore leave, presumably to be squirrelled back to the Academy from which most came (save arguably Kirk, Sulu and Chekov). I think they genuinely believed Scotty would have been really useful on Starfleet's newest and coolest (sic) ship.
And Scotty's a practical enough man. The Enterprise may have been an old ship by that point, but I think that it was still legendary enough to try to keep in service as a trainer. The whole "I'll get her running again in two weeks" thing was doubtless to whip her into shape again as a training vessel and nothing more - a minor work regardless, especially given that she managed to haul herself back to Spacedock, which explains why Scotty was miffed at being refused even that priviledge. After all, even at that point the Republic must have been floating around out there somewhere...
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