GrahamKennedy wrote:Given that a ship like the E-D has like 1 person per 5,000 tons or so (as compared to the largest warship today which has 1 per 15 tons), then it pretty much has to have oodles and oodles of rooms that people rarely use. I don't find it hard at all to believe that spaces as big as that Stellar Cartography imaging room are often unmanned.
That also fits in with what Dax had said of the original 1701 in the DS9 Tribbles episode, how "they really packed them in" back then, implying that TNG-Voyager era ships were much more spacious.
Which (again) pisses me off about Enterprise, considering how roomy and spacious the NX class was, even giving ensigns personal quarters and allowing an entire cargo bay to be usurped for some silly situation room without any apparent problem and a section of ship to be devoted soley to Trellium D research (and T'Pol personal crack house).
And no, I never tire of taking pot shots at Enterprise.