Furthermore, the bridge will be accessible via at least two corridors rather than a single turbolift. The doors to these corridors will be constructed so they can be opened manually in the event of power failure.
There will be no Jeffries tubes on the ship. Any mechanism to which we might need access in an emergency will be out in the open, esthetics be damned. If radiation shielding is absolutely necessary, there will still be a means provided for a humanoid of average or greater height to access the mechanism while walking upright.
And also for that matter, they already have special tubes of various chemicals they use as simulated organisms, to test transporter functionality. They showed them on the episode of Voyager with the mini-wormhole that led to Romulan space a few decades before. I presume that the only reason we don’t see them more often is that the various ships rarely encounter situations where the reliability of the transporters is questionable but there’s also sufficient time to test them leisurely.
All Starfleet officers and crew will be trained to respond appropriately if the ship’s artificial-gravity field should ever fail. There will be unannounced drills in which the gravity will be turned off; anyone up to the rank of captain who flounders helplessly at such moments will be assigned to broken-objects cleanup duty afterwards.
If the ship takes an enemy hit while maneuvering at near-light speeds, all crew members will bear in mind that they are in any case inside an artificial intertia-dampening field that prevents them from becoming films of grease on the bulkheads; accordingly, they will respect the laws of physics and not fall out of their chairs.
The standard Starfleet duty uniform will be designed to double as an emergency pressure suit – not a full EVA suit, but one that can at least keep the wearer alive for a short duration if cabin pressure fails.
There were at least 3 entrances to the Enterprise D bridge. The main turbolift, aft and port; a secondary one starboard and fore; and the entrance to the observation lounge/briefing room, which in turn led into the corridor.
I remember the ready room, but I don’t recall its being accessible by a corridor; the bridge and the ready room being the only things on the uppermost deck, where would the corridor go?
I said observation lounge, not ready room. I don’t think the latter had its own exit. But you could certainly get to the observation lounge directly from the bridge, and to a corridor from the lounge.
Section 31 will be exposed publicly by the Federation President, and banned. Such an organization has no place in an interstellar democracy under the rule of law. All Starfleet personnel will be given 31 days to report to the Starfleet Inspector General - a person of outstanding reputation and integrity - as to any Section 31 membership or contacts. Anyone so reporting will be subject to verifier scan, Betazoid contact and Vulcan mindmeld to ensure truthfulness. If the person has committed no crimes for Section 31, he or she may continue to serve in Starfleet. If the person has committed crimes, he or she will be prosecuted by court-martial to the fullest extent of the law but may raise, as a defense, the fact that he or she did so under what he or she believed to be lawful orders. Dishonorable discharge will follow any conviction. Anyone who, after the passage of the 31-day deadline, is found to have been involved in Section 31 and has not so reported, will be prosecuted and dishonorably discharged. The Starfleet Administrator will deny funding or personnel assignments for any Section 31 activities whatsoever, and ensure that no successor organization arises.
The death penalty for visiting Talos IV, and the general order which permits the total destruction of another world’s surface, will be immediately repealed as barbaric.
All Betazoid personnel will swear an Oath of Silence which they will scrupulous observe, unless they actually have something useful to contribute to senior officers’ discussions.
All Starfleet personnel will be forbidden from ever, after a meaningful pause, saying words to the effect of, “You’d better come down here and see for yourself.” Captains are busy people; we don’t have time for show-and-tell. If you can’t speak Federation Standard well enough to tell me over a secure comm channel what the hell’s going on down there, get off my ship. Airlocks are available on Decks 3, 5, 9 and 18.
All Starfleet personnel will have a microchip implanted at the time of enlistment. It will be scannable from orbit and will provide constantly-updated, realtime location and health information on any Away Team member, and will also serve as a transponder for emergency beamouts.
Surly physicians who constantly gripe about the transporter are unsuited for starship duty, and will be given starbase assignments and denied promotion.
The events of “Rascals” demonstrate that the transporter can be used as a rejuvenation-immortality machine. The implications of this are so potentially disruptive to Federation society that the information must be classified on pain of death and all privately-owned transporters must be placed under Starfleet control immediately.
Sorry. This is Roddenberry’s future, not Straczynski’s. Therefore, all social/political/economic problems among Homo sapiens and all allied sentient species have long since been finally and rationally resolved and there are no labor unions, as there is no need for them.
I don’t know about corridors, but there were definitely three turbolifts that accessed the bridge. In the “Data takes over the ship to go be with Lore and his Daddy, a.k.a. it’s the Brent Spiner show!” episode, they used three turbolifts to evacuate the bridge after Data rigged up a life-support failure.
Rewrite Starfleet regulations…hmm…how about just “add some enlisted ranks to the chain of command”. Poor Chief O’Brien had to wait until DS9 to get a proper rank insignia…
Seriously, there was Chief O’Brien, Yeoman Rand, and that one-quarter Romulan guy from the Drumhead episode. Everyone else in Starfleet was an Ensign or higher. What was up with that?
I think you’re right. And one of them was an “express” turbolift that ran directly to the Battle Bridge, first used in the series premiere, “Encounter at Farpoint.” It was the starboard forward one, as I recall.
Up to now it has been the practice, for some reason, that when a Starfleet ship encounters any other ship, both ships shall be aligned on the same plane of orientation, as if they were submarines or airships sharing a common “down” direction. This practice shall be discontinued except where a clear practical necessity exists (e.g., docking). Starfleet officers should be subconsciously reminded at all opportunities that they are not in a submarine or airship and they do have three-dimensional freedom of movement, especially in combat situations. Remember how Kirk outwitted Khan.
Personal shields, alluded to in the DS9 Earth episode, will actually be used in combat. Also, if encountering a hostile ship without shields (or with shields down), random chunks of said ship will be beamed into space.
It’s tactically foolish to put the Bridge on the TOP of the ship, at the highest point of the Saucer Section, where it is easily targeted by even the dumbest foes (Pakleds?).
thanks to high speed optical relays and large screen displays, the Bridge can be located anywhere in the ship, there is no tactical need to put the Bridge at the topmost point of the ship, it’s not like you need a “windshield” to look out of
Utopia Planitia shipyards will be issued a standing order to put the Bridge in a different location on each starship , it could be deep in the secondary hull of the ship, it could be near one of the nacelle pylons, it could be anywhere, take a page from your most intractable foe, the Borg, and decentralize your Bridge locations
since the Bridge could be anywhere in the ship, enemies will no longer have a common targeting point on Federation starships
