wait, don't the decks run from front to back, with your feet facing the rear of the ship? Hence "Ten forward" being an area that actually ran from deck ten and forward?
Ten Forward is on deck ten, at the front lower edge of the saucer. Forward means it's the most forward part of the ship.wait, don't the decks run from front to back, with your feet facing the rear of the ship? Hence "Ten forward" being an area that actually ran from deck ten and forward?
Riceball, that's deck 9 you've circled, there. Deck 10 is the lower saucer rim. Note window curvature. And the exterior view in "The Child".
And I think the first deck below the secondary hull rim is the closest to "windows on the floor":
There is an admittedly chauvinistic theory that bipedal (ish) locomotion, thus raising the head/sensory cluster up over the tall grass for further viewing (and earlier awareness of approaching danger), and ... this is rationalization for budgetary considerations. ...
In TWOK Terrel tells Kirk "He blames you for the death of his wife." Kirk replies "I know what he blames me for!" However, at this point no one has told Kirk about Ceti Alpha 6 exploding and devastating Ceti Alpha 5. How does Kirk even know she is dead?
Yeah, you're right, but it's not my picture actually, at least I didn't circle it, it's just something that I found. But, I did realize that Ten Forward was on the lower half of the saucer after I posted that pic but I didn't bother removing and replacing it with something more accurate.
Looking at the pic of the model you posted, I think that the lowest level of the secondary hull also qualify as closest to "windows" on the floor". The very last set of windows look like they're almost at the very bottom of the Enterprise's hull.
In the Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man why was (at first) Data considered property of Starfleet? I wasn't aware that Dr. Singh was working for The Federation when he made Data? Was he part of Starfleet? I thought Data joined Starfleet of his own free will. Therefore, he should be able to resign as any other member. Right?
Yes, but why would he be labelled as property if he was not Starfleet property to begin with? They were telling him he couldn't resign because he was property, but since he was not made out of Starfleet materials, seems there is no way they could label him as such.
Unless, of course, Dr. Singh was part of Starfeet. Was he?
They probably looked at it like we would a vehicle. A vehicle may be made by a manufacturer, but it belongs to the end user, not the manufacturer. The end user does not provide the steel, fabric, plastic, rubber, and electronics that make up a car, but nevertheless, the car does belong to them.
Data may have been built by Soong, but by being commissioned in Starfleet, he was now a machine being used exclusively by Starfleet, and therefore, the property of Starfleet. At least that was the reasoning.
That's not really an exact analogy since, in this case, the manufacturer's don't work for the end user and the cars are sold to the end user. So, unless Data was sold to Starfleet, your analogy doesn't apply. However, if Dr. Soong was in the employ of Starfleet/the Federation then it could be in his contract that anything that he creates while under contract/employ with the Starfleet belongs to Starfleet even when/if his contract ends whether voluntarily or involuntarily/
I would have thought that those decisions would have been made once Data joined Starfleet, presumably when he went to the Academy (or did he?).