For the sake of illustration on the deck plans, the red dot on the image represents you, after you have stepped off of the starboard turbolift. The corridor that extends forward and around the entire forward half of the deck is our primary Public Affairs corridor. The corridor to your left, that extends around the center of the deck is our lesser-used interior corridor. And the center section of deck two – that the interior corridor weaves around -- houses support rooms for the Bridge on deck 1 above.
Let’s start with your “tour” of our primary (forward) Public Affairs corridor. The door immediately to your right leads into the starboard cargo elevator room. This room serves as the active-delivery cargo storage for deck two. The large semi-circle represents the vertical cargo elevator that extends all that way down through the saucer. A similar cargo elevator is located on the port side of our deck. Deck 2 is the top level of this elevator system.
As you continue walking down our PA corridor, you will pass six emergency storage lockers on your left, and three escape pods on your right. Next to those escape pods on the right is the women’s public restroom, our library research lab, and the PA Lounge kitchen. You will then pass our Public Affairs Lounge on the right, followed by our conference room, an unmanned medical aid station, the men’s public restroom, and three more escape pods.
If we backtrack (back to the red dot) and follow the left side of our main corridor, the first door on your left would be my crew quarters, followed by my office, Tessa Kensington’s office, Cassie Queen’s office, and then Tessa’s crew quarters. The last features along that wall, are, of course, the six port side emergency lockers.
Now, if we go back to the red dot again, and walk to the right, thereby accessing the inner corridor, the first door leads to a machinery room, followed by the door to the starboard environmental systems monitoring room. Turning the corner, to your left is Cassie Queen’s crew quarters, across from which are two more escape pods. Next to Cassie’s quarters, on the left, is my requested holo-programming lab, a storage room across the hall (behind my quarters), another small machinery room on the left, and the central corridor leading aft, into the Bridge support rooms.
If we continue following the inner corridor around the center deck facilities, we pass another small machinery room, a spare office for visiting personnel, across from another storage room (behind Tessa’s quarters), and then two more escape pods. Across from those escape pods is an open space originally designed to fit a fourth crew quarters, but currently uninstalled, and therefore, nothing more than a large empty room. You finish this inner deck by passing the port environmental systems monitoring room, and another small machinery room.
Now, is we backtrack to the large corridor in the middle of the deck that leads into the center deck Bridge support facilities, and you walk aft (south in the image), you will pass the Bridge Crew Lounge (on your right – left in the image). This is where all on-duty Bridge crew hang out when not sitting at a station on the Bridge. Across from the Bridge Crew Lounge (on the starboard side of this corridor) is a security response office. The security officers stationed here patrol and defend both deck 2 and the Bridge above.
The central corridor then splits leading port and starboard. The most notable room on the port split (left corridor in this image) is the Bridge Crew women’s restroom. The Bridge Crew men’s restroom is located down the starboard corridor. At the aft end of both of those corridors is a door, which opens to a small set of stairs leading up to the Bridge Conference Room landing/level. The starboard stairs on that landing then ascend another flight and open onto the Bridge.
Back on deck 2, in the direct center of the deck are the two computer core trunks, as well as the turbolifts leading up to the Bridge (or down to the rest of the ship). The two inner flights of stairs (shown near the aft end of both central corridors) lead down to the flight control rooms on the upper pillar of the Main Shuttlebay (deck 3). This gives flight operations personnel easy access to the Bridge if necessary.
The entire aft section of deck 2 contains deck machinery, water tanks, recycling systems and the like. As you can see on the deck layout, these areas can only be accessed by turbolift, and even then, are only visited when those systems require maintenance. Spare turbolifts are often stored in this part of the deck as well.
And, there you have it, the layout of deck 2 -- a deck used by our Public Affairs Office, as well as the support rooms for the Bridge one deck above. Deck 2 isn’t a large deck – the decks below are much larger (with deck 10 being the largest), but it does provide what we need. And now you – our friends and followers -- can visualize where we – your USS Enterprise Public Affairs personnel -- live and work. Pretty neat, eh?
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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December 16, 2364 -- (Original Devron Timeline)