USS Griffin, NCC-1979

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Deck by deck layout of the Griffin

Current year: 2381
Stardate at beginning of episode #23: 58821.2
Year/Stardate, and how it works

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Year/Stardate, and how it works

The current year is 2381 (which is the current year for the ST Universe on the TNG/DS9/Voyager timescale).
The beginning of this year corresponds to a Stardate of 58000.0

How Stardates work
In the original series, stardates were completely arbitrary, except that they only had 4 digits before the period.

In the Next Generation, stardates became more defined, but not entirely:

Stardates had 5 digits before the period in defernce to how much time had passed between TOS and TNG in the Star Trek Universe.
The first digit in the stardate was the number 4, supposedly to indicate that it was the 24th century. This however is no longer the case, as you will soon see.
The second number indicated which season of TNG it was. Due to this reason, when DS9 and Voyager came on the scene using the same stardate system and then ran past what would have been TNG's ninth season, stardates rolled over to beginning with the number 5.
The next three digits are supposed give the relative time that has passed since the beginning of the year. But since stardates aren't an exact science, these three digits are basically meaningless other than to indicate if something came before or after something else that year.
The period (or decimal point if you want to call it that) seperates the five digit number representing the time of year/what day it is from the number representing what time of day it is.
The number after the decimal point is actually supposed to indicate how much of the current day has passed. But again, this isn't an exact science, and as there is only one digit that counts from 0 to 9 instead of up to the 24 hours there actualy are in a day, it too is basically meaningless.

(As a note: Star Trek uses 24 hour military time for everything except when using stardates in logs.)

In the Star Trek Universe, the year and second digit of the stardate roll over at the same time. This usually occurs at the beginning of each new season, which corresponds to September of each year in our time.

For the purposes of the Griffin, and to keep things a tad bit simpler, we will roll over the year/stardate on New Year's.

A timeline of Stardates

Year	Stardate	Season
2364	41000.0	The Next Generation, 1
2368	45000.0	The Next Generation, 5
		Deep Space Nine, 1
2370	47000.0	The Next Generation, 7
		Deep Space Nine, 3
2371	48000.0	Deep Space Nine, 4
		Voyager, 1 (began on Jan. 16, 1995, instead of the Sept. before, but the stardates remain the same as season 1 was only half a season long.)
2373	50000.0	Deep Space Nine, 6
		Voyager, 3
2373	51000.0	Deep Space Nine, 7
		Voyager, 4
2377	54000.0	Voyager, 7

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Deck by deck layout

Saucer Section

Main Bridge
Captain's Ready Room
Observation/Conference Lounge
Civilian Quarters
Civilian Quarters
Main Shuttlebay
Cargo Bays 1-3
Science Labs
Civilian Quarters
Science Labs
Transporter Rooms 1-4
Civilian Quarters
Civilian Quarters
Captain's Quarters
Two-story Forward Lounge(upper level)
Civilian Quarters
Two-story Forward Lounge(lower lever)
Civilian Quarters
Computer Core
Holodecks
Classrooms
Childcare
Playgrounds
Civilian Quarters
Sickbay
Counselor's Officer
Medical Laboritories
Gymnasiums
Nursery
Life Support
Classrooms
Childcare
Playgrounds
Civilian Quarters
Civilian Quarters
Maintenance
Captain's Yacht Docking Port

Stardrive Section

Battle Bridge
Docking Latches
Emergency Batteries
Phaser Bank Systems
Life Support Systems
Science Labs
Shuttlebays 2 and 3
Shuttlebay Support/Shuttle Maintenance
Transporter Rooms 5 & 6
Science Labs
Maintenance
Special Operations Control Room
Crew Quarters
Crew Quarters
XO's Quarters
Crew Quarters
Crew Quarters
Power Distribution
TCD
Engineering Support Labs
Main Impulse Engines
Life Support
Dorsal Docking Port
Forward Photon Torpedo Launcher
Engineering Support (Gel Packs)
Deuterium Fuel Pumps and Fill Ports
Deuterium Fuel Storage
Deuterium Fuel Storage
Deuterium Injection Reactors
Science Labs
Crew Quarters
Crew Quarters
Engineering
Enviornmental Support
Engineering
Aft Photon Torpedo Launcher
Main Engineering
Chief Engineer's Office
Engineering
Environmental Support
Waste Management
Cargo Bays 4-6
Brig
Security Office
Cargo Bays 7 & 8
Antimatter Injection Reactors
Antimatter Storage Pods
Antimatter Storage Pods

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