Nursery

The nursery was one section aboard Federation starships, such as the . In the decades of the past, such as the 19th century, the word was used as the term for a room or suite of rooms at the top of the house made to quarter a family's children (the nurse, or nanny as she would later be known, would be quartered in an adjacent room to be within earshot of the sleeping children during the night); by the 21st century, it became known as the term for an infant's room.
Prior to Jake Sisko's birth in 2355, Benjamin Sisko became obsessed with making a nursery for him after he and Jennifer Sisko decided to conceive him. It turned out well, especially the starscape on the ceiling, which Jake adored. ()
Ian Troi got to play with a litter of Labrador Retriever puppies in the nursery aboard the Enterprise-D in 2365 when Miss Gladstone was working as a teacher there. ()
Ensign Janet Brooks worked in the nursery and volunteered for extra time after her husband, Marc Brooks, died in late 2366. ()
The Juarez baby, born in 2367, slept in a small bed in the ship's nursery, attached to sickbay, shortly after he was born. Captain Jean-Luc Picard paid the latest member of his crew a visit shortly after the boy was put to bed by a nurse. ()
Before Naomi Wildman's birth, Kathryn Janeway remarked that she should perhaps apologize to the child as the wasn't anyone's idea of a nursery. ()
In 2376, a rumor circulated aboard Voyager that half the crew on deck five had gotten pregnant based on Tom Paris's glancing at a monitor that displayed generational projections. Neelix asked Commander Chakotay for permission to turn Cargo Bay One into a nursery. ()
== See also ==
* Borg nursery
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