Location of captains quarters

[Captdoug56]

Hi
Im new here , and happy to be a part of the forum.
I know on the Enterprise D, Picards quarters are on deck 8. His quarters has windows so where on the exterior saucer
Would these be located ? Port or starboard? Fore or aft etc.

Thx Doug

 

[STR]

It's forward, on the center line. If you look at the 1701-D filming miniatures, there are extra long windows near the front of the saucer, meant to depict floor to ceiling view ports. That area was intended as captain's quarters.

The interior set doesn't quite match that due to practical issues.

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

Captains quarters are usually always on the forward saucer of starfleet ships (facing ahead that the ship is facing when coasting or in warp)....a few decks down from bridge. The same goes with the senior offers quarters....forward saucer but not on the same deck as the Captain's.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

This isn't technically a canon answer, but I think it's interesting. At the beginning of the novel The Latter Fire, Kirk visits Chekov's quarters and thinks to himself how the lower rank officers have great views of space, as opposed to the captain's quarters which is deeper in the ship. The rationale being that he is "less expendable" and is safer than being right up at the edge of the hull.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Poor Chekov, though. But I guess somebody has to be on the outside, unless they have double hulls. It's not like they can have a quarters lottery. Loser gets the vulnerable barracks.

 

[Takeru]

This isn't technically a canon answer, but I think it's interesting. At the beginning of the novel The Latter Fire, Kirk visits Chekov's quarters and thinks to himself how the lower rank officers have great views of space, as opposed to the captain's quarters which is deeper in the ship. The rationale being that he is "less expendable" and is safer than being right up at the edge of the hull.

That makes no sense considering the bridge is on top of the saucer which places the captain at the edge of the hull during every crisis. There's no point in giving him safer quarters when he runs into the danger zone as soon as the red alert starts blaring.

 

[DonIago]

I think it's been sufficiently demonstrated that when shields go down, where you are on the ship rapidly becomes irrelevant.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

At least the captain can sleep in peace, until they get him out of bed to respond.

"What's going on? Where did all this damage come from?"
"We were in a minor skirmish, sir. Don't worry, we handled it without you. They've been repelled and won't come back."
"Who won't come back? You're supposed to wake me, Mister!"
"Well, we were going to, but you were sleeping so peacefully, sir. It would've been a shame to disturb that."

 

[CommanderTrip]

It's forward, on the center line. If you look at the 1701-D filming miniatures, there are extra long windows near the front of the saucer, meant to depict floor to ceiling view ports. That area was intended as captain's quarters.

The interior set doesn't quite match that due to practical issues.

I thought those windows on the center line at the front of the ship were Ten Forward? Deck 10, forward Section. IIRC one of the playmates Enterprise D models I had as a kid had me put the window decal there and they labeled it as the Ten Forward sticker lol

 

[STR]

I thought those windows on the center line at the front of the ship were Ten Forward? Deck 10, forward Section. IIRC one of the playmates Enterprise D models I had as a kid had me put the window decal there and they labeled it as the Ten Forward sticker lol

I think I still have that toy somewhere...if memory serves, as a kid I ate too much chili one day and puked on it. The sound effects never worked again though. All good though, the adventures of the Enterprise crew went on for many more years.

I should dig it out and give it to my son when he's old enough. Or spoil him with the new DST E-D that separates. Or spoil ME with the new DST E-D that separates.

Anyway, yeah that's the right sticker. The directions were wrong as to where to put it.

 

[The_Baroness]

No, it IS ten forward on the center line at the front. It's the forward most point of the ship. Hence why Picardy sought refuge from the sweep in Starship mine. It was the last place to get swept.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I thought those windows on the center line at the front of the ship were Ten Forward? Deck 10, forward Section. IIRC one of the playmates Enterprise D models I had as a kid had me put the window decal there and they labeled it as the Ten Forward sticker lol

Ten-forward is along the bottom of the saucer rim (it's actually too big to fit where it's meant to.. movie magic, etc), picture HERE

 

[CommanderTrip]

Nice pic. would that put the captains quarters immediately above ten forward? The playmates Enterprise D I had wasn't the most screen accurate representation. But that sticker I was talking about fits right where that picture shows and it includes both the upper and lower sections. I can see how the windows in ten forward fit the bottom row in that image too. Never realized THAT was ten forward. You learn something new every day!

 

[SPCTRE]

I loved the super intricate, zooming-in establishing shot of Janeway's quarters (ready room?) in VOY, I wish we had gotten one in TNG.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Nice pic. would that put the captains quarters immediately above ten forward? The playmates Enterprise D I had wasn't the most screen accurate representation. But that sticker I was talking about fits right where that picture shows and it includes both the upper and lower sections. I can see how the windows in ten forward fit the bottom row in that image too. Never realized THAT was ten forward. You learn something new every day!

Nah, directly above Ten Forward is the lounge from the opening shot of "Encounter at Farpoint", with windows like the conference lounge behind the bridge (and using that same set)

THIS is how the saucer sim was originally envisioned, and the correct size for it relative to the rest of the ship. In actuality, it was split into two, the upper half represented in a couple of episodes by the conference lounge set and lower half by Ten Forward.

The Captain's quarters, and every other room on the ship, should be located HERE, with some effort!

 

[STR]

It's ambiguous whether the lounge the establishing shot is anything other than the normal conference room aft of the bridge. There's a fade between the exterior and the shot of Picard.

It certainly *looks* like the conference room. It's not redressed at all.

There are a couple of other locations, the officer's dining room and the ship's theater, that might be on deck 9, or the glazed area in deck 3 forward.

 

[F. King Daniel]

^The model ships were removed from the rear wall, so it was slightly different to how it appeared when it was the conference lounge.

 

[cgervasi]

Ten-forward is along the bottom of the saucer rim (it's actually too big to fit where it's meant to.. movie magic, etc), picture HERE

You mean 10-Forward should take up a greater arc of the saucer circumference?

 

[F. King Daniel]

You mean 10-Forward should take up a greater arc of the saucer circumference?

It's the height as well. Compare the size of the ten-forward windows on the set with the originally envisioned saucer rim window size HERE

 

[STR]

^The model ships were removed from the rear wall, so it was slightly different to how it appeared when it was the conference lounge.

IRL I'm not sure if they removed the ships, or simply hadn't mounted them yet when they filmed Picard's intro.

But, sure, if you want to say it was a different room, I'm good with that. Maybe it *was* the officer's mess/wardroom.