Briefing room

The briefing room was a dedicated area on Federation starships and on Federation and alien facilities where senior staff or military leaders could conduct meetings and various conferences. On starships, it was generally located near the ship's main bridge.
On starships, there were a few types of briefing room, including the situation room, the command center, and the conference room. ()
On and starships, the briefing room was referred to as the conference or observation lounge.
The had two types of briefing rooms, the observation lounge and a pair of conference suites. ()
The location of the briefing room on aboard the was labeled on a master situation display. This room, on Deck B, was depicted as having a central table with three chairs on each side and one chair at each end. Hanging lights were shown above the table. This room was adjacent to a phaser cannon. ()
==Constitution-class==
The original had at least two briefing rooms, but they were not located in close proximity to the bridge. One of these briefing rooms was located on Deck 14. They also lacked windows, though not a wall viewer. A conference table – with a tri-screen viewer for the display of information, an inset computer terminal, and inset comm units – was placed in the center of the room, around which were several chairs. (; )
Briefing room sign.jpg|A sign for the briefing room on deck 14
USS Enterprise Briefing Room.jpg|A briefing room aboard the Enterprise, 2258
Enterprise crew discuss Mitchell.jpg|One of the briefing rooms onboard the USS Enterprise, 2265
USS Enterprise briefing room.jpg|One of the briefing rooms aboard the Enterprise, 2268
==Defiant-class==
The did not have a dedicated space for a briefing room, but the aft part of the bridge had a built-in table that acted as an informal area for officers to discuss mission-specific details. () For larger crowds, the mess hall could also be used for briefings. ()
==Intrepid-class==
On vessels, the briefing room was located to the port side of the bridge, with three large view ports facing the front of the ship. The room offered many comforts and was equipped to provide a relaxed area for briefing. An odd-shaped table was located in the center of the room and could support seven chairs. The captain customarily sat at the head of the table, closest to the windows. A monitor was provided to allow visual aspects to be involved in a briefing. For more comfort, a replicator was provided. (, et al)
On her initial tour of the , Captain Kathryn Janeway did not believe the briefing room looked very comfortable while Seven of Nine thought it an "efficient design". The room was later decorated with various objects of art. ()
==Dominion Headquarters==
Dominion Headquarters had a briefing room from where Dominion personnel, including Weyoun, the Female Changeling, Damar, Gor and Pran, directed the war. It was quite far from the cargo bay door of the building to the briefing room. Kira Nerys, Elim Garak, Ekoor and other Cardassian Rebellion members were able to fight their way there, in late 2375. ()
==Deep Space 9==
Deep Space 9's wardroom, the space station's equivalent of a briefing room, was commonly used to discuss various actions during the Dominion War.
==Federation Headquarters==
The Federation Headquarters space station had at least seven briefing rooms. ()
==Appendices==
===Background information===
The briefing room which appears in , was built on Desilu Culver Stage 16. The scene there was filmed on Friday . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 57)
The set was moved to Desilu Culver Stage 15 for the second pilot, , in which it also doubled as the briefing lounge. Both the briefing room and the briefing lounge scenes were filmed on the first day of production, Monday . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, p. 87)
For the series itself, a completely new set was built on Stage 9 at Desilu's main Gower Street studio facilities. The set also served as the recreation room and the officers' lounge. It was occasionally redressed to serve as other, temporary sets, such as the interior of Balok's pilot vessel in . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, pp. 110, 126)
In the episode "The Naked Time", there is a sign which reads "Briefing Room 2", which is the clearest evidence we have for the existence of at least two of these rooms. The episode shows the room number plate for this room as "3C 44". In "Dagger of the Mind", there was a blue placard that reads, "Briefing Room ->". This sign was located near the Science Library, and was seen briefly when Doctor Simon Van Gelder was running down a corridor and when he incapacitated a security guard.
The Constitution-class briefing room was created by Matt Jefferies. ( text commentary, TOS Season 1 DVD) The set used for depicting the room was situated on Desilu's Stage 9. ( text commentary, TOS Season 1 DVD) Although the set incorporated sloped ceiling beams that implied the room had a gently curved ceiling, the room actually had no ceiling. Most of the walls were straightly vertical, which cost much less to build, and only one of the room's walls was slightly angled. Hence, Michael and Denise Okuda characterized the angled ceiling beams as "ingeniously designed." ( text commentary, TOS Season 1 DVD)
In the final draft script of , a scene which is set in one of the briefing rooms aboard the Enterprise had a scene heading which indicated it was to be set in a "conference room". This was changed to "briefing room" by the time the revised final draft of the script was issued.
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