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A few weeks ago, I was thinking about modelling the brig from Voyager. We see a fair bit of the brig in the episode “Thirty Days” where Tom Paris is confined to the brig as the result of disobeying the Captain’s orders.

This image appeared in an official Trek fan publication:

(Paramount authorized an official Trek magazine in the nineties — it often included these kinds isometric-style set interiors and folks have copied, reused and remixed them ever since).

There’s a bunch of stuff I don’t like about the Voyager brig set. First, there seems like a lot of wasted space dedicated to an area that probably isn’t commonly used. Despite how much space it takes, it always struck me as odd that there was only one cell. And, lastly, I find the idea that Trek ships have stations (like the brig guard station) where people are expected to stand all day long a bit unfriendly. People need to sit down.

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sabotabby

These look awesome! But important question: Where are the toilets in the brig? We don't see them in the show either.

And no way in a post-scarcity society where people work because they want to are there jobs where you just have to stand around all day. Although I guess for people with back pain it makes sense. I'm standing around right now.

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bcholmes

There's a scene in the Star Trek movie that shall not be named, in which Kirk, Spock and McCoy are locked in the Enterprise brig and Kirk pushes a button on the wall which causes the toilet to slide out. He then proceeds to use it as a chair.

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sabotabby

Thanks. I feel much better about the state of Tom Paris' pants.

This said, the poor person who has to stand outside all day with the glass window.

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bcholmes

But you can fanwank that. Remember in an early episode of Star Trek: Discovery, when Burnham was up to shenanigans in the Captain's ready room, she commanded "privacy" at the mostly see-through door, and it went opaque.

I'm willing to bet the force field that keeps the prisoner in has a privacy mode.

Edited Date: 2020-07-01 06:41 pm (UTC)

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sabotabby

I hope so, and I hope that the outside person also has control, because you know Tom Paris would just whip it out.

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dewline

"Privacy/Mental Health" mode should be available to prisoners and guards alike, I think. Internal sensors would normally track prisoner movements anyway, and should have sufficient depth in their monitoring subroutines by Tom Paris' day to know the difference between pranks, real threats to the guard(s), the ship, the prisoner(s) or any (normally expected) combination thereof.

Edited Date: 2021-06-19 12:14 am (UTC)

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dewline

I've noticed in the designs for the brig cells in the Kelvinverse version of 1701 that they have a door at the back of the cell. I've confirmed with one of the designers who worked on Into Darkness that we were supposed to assume that door leads to the cell's hygiene facilities.