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I know that this is something i should know but the fact of the matter is that im a little rusty in this area. I need to know the placement and station type of every bridge console on the following ships (ei:Tactical, Weapons, Conn, First/Second Officer personal consoles, Engineering, that strange one that is usually right beside conn,ect...) ENT-E,Defiant,Voyager,Galaxy,USS Prometheus,USS Equinox,Akira class and Nebula class. The list is quite long but neccesary, anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.
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Well, you can drop the last two right off the bat. There isn't any such thing as an Akira or Nebula bridge design. (Unless you count that of the Prometheus from "Second Sight." I've never seen that one, as it turns out.)
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Awww... I was hoping this would be a discussion on the rationale behind placing the bridge control stations in the positions that they are. Nuts.
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Well, I don't think we know the whole bridge station listing and positioning for a lot of the bridges we've seen. We've gotten close enough to the stations to read the labels on the bridges of the Enterprise-D, Stargazer, Defiant, and Voyager. I can't remember if we've gotten a clear shot of the labels for the stations on the ST5:TFF Enterprise-A bridge, the ST6:TUC Enterprise-A bridge, and the ST6:TUC Excelsior bridge.
The rest of the bridges, non-canon sources can fill in the gaps. This was done by Franz Joseph and Shane Johnson in their works, for example. I think ST:The Magazine also filled in some blanks on the Sutherland and a few other incidental starships. But for the rest, there isn't much information. I have yet to see information on the side stations for the Enterprise-E (although I think Nemesis might change this) or what that front starboard-side station on the NX-01 is.
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And in the case of bridges from TNG onwards, it's pointless anyway because the whole point of LCARS-cased terminals is that they can be configured to do anything. The early TNG E-D bridge had certain roles assigned to the rearward 5 stations; when it was felt necessary to give Geordi a place to work from on the bridge once he was made Chief Engineer, they changed the assignments. When Jellico took command he changed the assignments, just like that. . .
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I'll have you know that i am an inspiring author writing a very complicated novel and that in helping me with this you could in fact be adding to the trek universe. (i am in no way a newbie )
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Awww... I was hoping this would be a discussion on the rationale behind placing the bridge control stations in the positions that they are. Nuts.
Well, we can make it one. :-)
Here, try this:
I, for one, think it is odd that NX-01 doesn't have a navigator, both in reference to the character development of Mayweather, and also the simple fact that Mayweather ought to be nicely overloaded with his duties.
Character Development: It's not that I've found Mayweather so interesting so far that I want to see him develop more . . . indeed, in all honesty, I find him the least interesting character. But, if he had a pal sitting next to him, they could have gotten more out of him. Many times did we see Sulu and Chekov talking or sharing a meaningful glance when something was up. Wes even got a few decent moments in simply because he sat right next to Data.
High Workload: By the 24th Century, helm and navigation were duties that could be performed by one person, even if that was Wesley. The person at Ops could assist (Data leveling the saucer's descent in Generations), but in normal situations it could be a one-man show. However, it did require huge consoles on some starships (compare Defiant's pilot station and Voyager's huge pilot station to the diminutive helm station on the E-D).
Though the tactical duties on NX-01 are handled at another station (a la the refit 1701), one must still consider the fact that it took two people on 2270's and 2280's era bridges to handle just the guidance and navigation. This, we may assume, was during an era of higher automation and greater computer assistance in such endeavors.
It seems to me that unless there's a navigation support crew somewhere else on the ship but tied in to his station, Mayweather couldn't hope to plot and execute courses with the rapidity we've seen.
Naturally, a large number of factors would affect such things, and I've left several possibilities out. What do you think?
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: Nope, it's another of those "newbie can't be assed to do his own research" threads. . .
WTF is your problem? It makes more sense to come here and *ask* people who would know than go wandering around the freakin' shitload of Trek websites looking for something, when someone here can just point you straight to what you're looking for.
I'm happy to help people find stuff.
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