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== Starboard Crew Dorm ==
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[[Image:CrewQtrsResized02.jpg|350px|thumb|left]] The starboard crew dorm is a 7 x 7 foot room with a 9 foot ceiling height.  There is bare deck on the floor, metal walls on all four sides in industrial grey paint.  There are places were it's blistered and pebbled, mostly in the areas where the piping and the conduiting have heated or cooled the surrounding air more than the general atmosphere.  There is some staining, to be expected on a ship this age, and most of it is around the rivets where the sections of metal have been joined to span the space, much like drywall will be taped and mudded and then painted over.  Otherwise, the paint job is smooth enough, nothing flaking off.<br><br>
 
Standing at the door and looking to the rear wall, everything is built in from corner to corner.  Left rear corner is a locker, about 24 inches wide and about 5 or so feet tall top to bottom and 20 inches deep.  There are vents in the door and it's likely it's one of those lockers with shelves on the inside. Attached to the righthand side of the locker is a 20-inch run of desk matching the depth of the locker. You stow things in the shallow drawer beneath it.  There is recessed lighting in the cabinets above the desk and they can be brightened and dimmed with a dial switch. Above the desk is a run of overhead cabinets rising to the conduiting and the pipes about 8 feet above the deck.  The desk is outfitted with a desk chair on wheels and it can be pushed all the way in under the desk to make room.  There is a clamp on the undercarriage of the chair to allow it to be fastened to the deck.  The two halves of the clamp assembly, on deck and chair, can folded in rest position, again to maximize on mobility and space.<br><br>
 
The rest of the space from desk to rear right corner is the bunk. It's 3.5 feet wide and goes all the way to the wall. It's 24 inches from the deck to top of mattress and the base is a full-length storage drawer.  Above the bunk is a foldaway bunk of the same dimensions, folded flat against the wall.<br><br>

In the rear wall behind the desk and at headboard height above the main bunk is a 4-inch shelf sunk into the surface of the bulkhead.  It runs from the locker to right rear corner, with a drop well at the desk and another at the head of the bed to hold loose items.  In the top inside edge of this recessed space is a light strip to provide light to see or read by.  Built into the shelf is a console straddling the desk/bunk stash shelf.  The console is angled for viewing and has the door lock controls, intercom controls, lighting controls, data ports to plug into the ship's Cortex system, a clock with alarm, a radio/media player, and thermostat.<br><br> 

Standing at the desk looking back at the door to the quarters, the doorjamb clears the bunk edge by a scant 8 inches and likewise clears the corner of the room on the other side by 6 inches.   There is an integrated control panel in the jamb on the left, over the foot of the bunk and it is similar to the headboard console, minus the radio/media player.  Centered at the top of the jamb is an emergency lighting fixture and the jamb itself is painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, for times when the main power fails. On the long run of wall opposite the bunk, there is nothing to break up the space except for light strip starting 6 feet above the deck.  It's 4 inches wide and the wall continues to the pipes overhead without further features.<br><br>

The Port Crew Dorms are indentical in fixtures to the Starboard, save everything is built in a quarter turn to the counterclockwise, with the door centered in the wall.  To see the plan, go [[#Port Crew Dorm| here.]]<br><br>

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