Auxiliary Control Room

The auxiliary control room is a compartment on some Federation Starships that serve as a secondary command center, in the event the bridge is damaged, destroyed, or made uninhabitable. The control consoles here duplicate the primary functions of their counterparts on the bridge, and there is even a duplicate computer subprocessor. On all vessels attached to Starfleet Intelligence, Admiral Uhura has made certain that there is an auxiliary control room, similar to that on the Constitution Class USS Enterprise 1701.

==== On a Nova Class Starship like USS Twilight, the Auxiliary Control Room is located on Deck 3, immediately on the right upon entering the security corridor, the Security Chief’s Office has been completely reworked as an emergency bridge for a combat situation, in the unlikely but very real possibility that the main bridge was taken out by a direct hit. (On another version of the Nova Class, the auxiliary control room was the auxiliary deflector control room.) This compartment is well-protected, located in a secure corridor behind the auxiliary deflector dish, but is rather small—roughly half the size of the Twilight’s Bridge. It is equipped with its own command computer subprocessor unit, identical to the unit on Deck One. There are five positions and controls panels: one each for flight control or Conn, Ops management, Tactical, Engineering, and ship’s commander. This was done so that main engineering won’t be even more chaotic that it normally would be in a combat situation, where the bridge has been taken out, and the rest of the ship has presumably taken heavy damage. When the ship is not at alert status and not in a combat situation, this compartment is normally kept locked. (The security office was moved across the hall to the Main Armory.)  During cruise mode, this control compartment is capable of backing up the Bridge, if it were to be damaged for any reason. Alternatively, Auxiliary Control has a “simulator mode” for training midshipmen and ensigns for Bridge duty. The precaution of installing an auxiliary control compartment was made by Admiral Uhura herself, from her personal experience on the Constitution Class Enterprise. Having to get past two locked doors to access this control center was due to her experiences with the criminal named Khan Noonien Singh, and the madman named Dr. Sevrin. ====