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I bet it has lost of blinking, beeping lights... blinking and beeping....beeping and blinking!
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Umm, in "11001001", it was small and square and crammed full of consoles. And had a nice window.
...Seriously speaking, I think that room was just Commander Quinteros' personal kingdom, and that Quinteros was WAY down the totem pole in the command hierarchy of the station, being Chief of Computer Refitting or something. He's never identified as the station commander, after all. (But admittedly, Picard's general call to "SB 74" is routed specifically to him...)
I gather the nature of the Ops Deck would depend on what sort of ops a starbase performs. Is servicing of starships an important part of the job, or just something they do out of pity when the visiting captains whine loudly enough? Does a starbase command a star system or a sector, or is it (as perhaps in the case of those moon-sized SB 74 lookalikes) satisfied with running itself?
I rather think there'd be separate rooms for each function, each of them conveniently sized for TV budget limits.
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Well, the room our heros were in as the big E backed out of spacedock was apparently inside the mushroom, yes? Because they could see the docking bay. The ops deck for the entire station would logically be at the top of the mushroom, given Federation design sense.
My guess is that there's a docking bay control center and a station control center, neither of which we saw in the episode. It could have a been a room specifically devoted to the work being done on the Enterprise. Anyone got a cappy of that set?
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The thing with the spacedock launch control center, is that the inside is so huge that one room can't can't be positioned with windows to oversee the WHOLE thing. Quinteros' cramped booth was probably in charge of the whole inside of the mushroom, with window placed to see as muchof it as possible.
Remember we saw another control booth, a two-person desk seen in the third and fourth movies. The odd thing is that in the second appearance, when the Probe take the mushroom out, it's that little booth that contacts Starfleet Command, saying "This is spacedock on emergency channel". Is it because they were the designated launch control booth, or because they were actually IN charge?
I once designed a launch control station, with windows looking in to the cavity of the mushroom. It would be supplemented by three more two-man booths at corresponding points on the outer rim, just over each of the doors. In any case, they wouldn't control the station... Hence why I'm asking.
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Well, there's probably some sort of "traffic control" for the mushroom interior. "Hey, Yorktown, I didn't clear you yet. If you back up, you're going to hit the Intrepid. Tripoli, you are cleared for Gate Three, proceed at half thrusters and watch out for that tug to your port. Hey - hey! Who said Enterprise could go to full impulse for gate two? Damn you Kirk!"
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Spacedock sized structures would likely be command centers for everything from sector fleets to commerce shipping to border patrols.
And starship repairs nad resupply, of course.
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You'd also have office space, living space, commerce centers, rec centers, the red light district in the lower core, etc. All kinds of stuff that would have to managed independently of the launch and dock facility.
Many of the functions we saw managed from Ops on DS9 really should have handled from the docking booths on each pylon. Of course, with DS9 and it's broken-downedness, who knows if those booths were operational.
So first, let's identify a structure on the mushroom model that could conceiveably be an operations center. Isn't there a cluster of antenae at the top that might have a bridge type structure with it?
The upper part of the mushroom may as well be the downtown of any medium-sized city in the current day... It could be in any of the spires, of one of the lower, offset "dome" structures.
Rmember though, we're not talking just the mushrooms. There are various sizes of the "Regula" station model we've seen as different starbases too.
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I imagine their command center would look something like the large NASA control room in Armaggedon. Or perhaps DS9's Ops.
The closest reference I can think of is how the Navy breaks up it's fleets. Third Fleet (headquartered at Pearl Harbor) being the eastern Pacific, Fifth Fleet (headquartered in Bahrain) is Persian Gulf area, etc...
In this case, the starbases would command all fleet operations in a large area of space, while an outpost would command a more localized area.
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And I guess we're forgetting the ACTUAL Starfleet Command centre seen in STIV. Wasn't too much to it (heck, it wasn't even a complete set), but it's a minor prrecedent if nothing else.
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