Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The Enterprise D You Need To Know

3. The Recreation Areas

As we've already covered, the Enterprise was an enormous starship that carried an inordinately sparse crew. This being a conscious production choice by the show though, meant that there were originally designs intended to lean into it. Namely, that the ship would be full to the brim of comfortable breakout areas designed to bring people together.

In the show itself, this manifested as the iconic Ten Forward. A place where every single off-duty problem would be thoroughly worked out over exotic food, luminous drink, or just ice cream. However, Guinan would have had her hands full, as there was also Two Forward, Nine Forward, and a number of smaller lounges to manage onboard.

The show's budget wouldn't stretch to these additional bar areas though (and, in truth, there was no need for them from a narrative standpoint), and the smaller lounge spaces were scrapped as unnecessary after the first season. The 5-deck high "mall" area, would have opened up all sorts of creative avenues.