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MFS Premonition Bridge

The Bridge is the equivalent of an operations center or command center aboard the MFS Premonition; and is located on Deck 1, Section 39-Delta. From here, the commanding officer supervises the entire ship's operation, ranging from vessel course control to tactical systems.

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Bridge design

Aboard the Premonition, the bridge is the nerve-center of the starship, and it is manned by the top officers of each department except for Engineering. There is typically an Engineering station that the Chief Engineer will use when on the bridge.

From here, the commanding officer supervises the entire ship's operation. When seated in the command chair, located in the center of the room, the commander has visual access to all major personnel stations and viewscreens, facilitating the decision-making process. It has become standard that the first officer is assigned to assist the ship's commanding officer in this process.

The forward bulkhead of the bridge is dominated by the main viewscreen, which utilizes the holographic projection system introduced in the Sovereign-class Starship. Directly in front of this is usually the helm and operations consoles, from where navigation vessel course control and sensor inputs are carried out.

The Bridge of the Premonition is fitted out with consoles that are replaceable modules, so that adaptation to special missions or upgrading the ship is facilitated.

Features

Command stations

The bridge command stations provide seating and information displays for the commanding officer and one or two other officers, typically including the first officer. The command chairs are located in the center of the bridge, designed to maximize interaction with all key bridge personnel, while permitting an unobstructed view of the main viewscreen.

The armrests of the captain's chair feature miniaturized status displays. Using keyboard or vocal commands, the captain can use these controls to override the basic operation of the starship.

Flight Control

During spaceflight at impulse power, the Helm is responsible for monitoring relativistic effects as well as inertial damping system status. When traveling at warp speed, Conn is required to monitor the subspace field geometry in parallel with the engineering department. During warp flight, the Conn console continually updates long-range sensor data and makes automatic course corrections to adjust for minor variations in the density of the interstellar medium.

Operations management

Many shipboard operations involve scheduling resources or hardware that affect a number of departments. In many such cases, it is common for various operations to present conflicting requirements. It is the responsibility of the operations officer to coordinate such activities so that mission goals are not jeopardized.

The operations position (frequently known as "OPS") manages the bulk of internal systems control as well as sensor functions not handled immediately by the Helm, such as any scans that are not relative to navigation, or controlling other sensors such as Astrophysical, Astrometric or purely scientific or research sensor equipment.

The Ops panel presents the operations officer with a continually updated list of current major shipboard activities. This list permits OPS to set priorities and allocate resources among current operations. This is especially critical in cases where two or more requests require the use of the same equipment, entail mutually exclusive mission profiles, or involve some unusual safety or tactical considerations.


Security and Tactical

The bridge station dedicated to defensive systems control and starship internal security is Tactical. Parts of the default control layout presents the security officer with information readouts dealing with the internal protection of the starship and its crew that would normally not be associated with OPS. A wide variety of starship defensive systems are available to the chief tactical officer, who also usually works as the chief of security, ranging from the deflector shield to phaser and torpedo systems, as well as intrusion detection systems.

Other systems that may be commanded by Tactical include communications in concert with OPS, long- and short-range sensor arrays also in conjunction with OPS, sensor probes, message buoys, and tractor beam devices.

Supportive stations

Mission Ops provides additional support to the operations manager, and is specifically responsible for monitoring activity relating to secondary missions. Mission Ops is responsible for assignment of resources and priorities according to guidelines specified by the operations manager and by operating protocols. This station is also responsible for monitoring away teams.

The Environmental Control console provides similar relief to the operations manager, monitoring the starship's life support systems. Due to the highly automated nature of these systems, this console would be unattended under normal circumstances, but becomes of crucial importance during alert situations to maximize crew survivability.

The bridge's Engineering station duplicates in simplified form the Chief Engineer's primary status displays from Main Engineering]]. The purpose of this station is to permit the Chief Engineer to maintain supervision over engineering system while on the bridge.

Layout

Directly fore of the command area was the Helm officer, who faced the main viewer. To the port side of the Helm officer, also facing the main viewer, was the operations manager's console, which was identical in size and design to the helm station. At the very front of the bridge is the large holographic viewscreen. When the screen is not active, a standard bulkhead is present.

Aft and to the left of the command area was an elevated platform on which tactical and security consoles were located. To the captain's right, behind the tactical console, was the mission operations section of the bridge. Against the port side walls of the main bridge were the consoles for Sciences along with others that were programmable for a multitude of functions.

Located against the aft wall of the bridge was a large master systems display monitor, similar to the one in main engineering. All relevant ship information (such as damage, power distribution, etc.) was displayed on the cutaway image of the vessel. This monitor could be used to direct ship operations and could be configured for limited flight control if necessary. Also located against the aft wall of the main bridge was the large engineering console. This had a smaller cutaway diagram of the vessel, which displayed all engineering-relevant data and showed warp fields and engine output.

External link

Acknowledgments: Memory Alpha, Bridge

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