Sleeping Arrangements

[Richard Baker]

The blue barrels are the living quarters for the cobalt simian crewmembers- they have more fun.

 

[Geargoose]

In 'First Contact' Picard showed off a force field window which I think was a totally needless

I always thought that it is used to throw waste from the ship, and it can be closed when needed

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ It was a cargo bay.

 

[Richard Baker]

No, it was a regular cabin window. Picard is going through the ship with Lily Sloan and they look out the window and remarks it doesn't look like glass- he taps the opening and we see the typical force field glitter effect, he says it is a force fields and they move on. It is not a csrgo hatch, it is a window with rounded ends set into the wall at viewing height.

 

[Cyfa]

It certainly looks like a window shapewise, but there is definitely a hatch or shutter of sorts as it's closed when Picard and Lily first enter the room (whatever type of room it is). Picard then opens the hatch and soon after demonstrates the forcefield. TrekCore has some good screencaps that demonstrate this

But anyway, back to the lower decks sleeping arrangements on the Cerritos: I like to think that the crew all have their own permanent quarters/homes on Douglas Station (or whichever starbase/installation that Cerritos is based out of), so the lower deckers only have to sleep in the corridor cubicles while they're aboard ship for however long the mission is.
For example, I've just watched S3 "Trusted Sources" and "The Stars at Night" (for the fifth or sixth time ), and while the Cerritos is being repaired, I imagine that most of the crew are quartered on the station - either in their own quarters/apartments or in temporary ones if their home is elsewhere.