Seems that the rooms used nautical Cartesian coordinates, but the hallways were laid out with polar coordinates. Was that a Star Trek: The Next Generation thing?
Also, that's not *all* the directions, at least not the ones used in the old Star Trek. When the Enterprise, badly damaged and limping, dived into a nebula cloud to hide from Khan the conversation went: *SPOCK*: Sporadic energy readings. Port-side, aft. Could be an impulse turn. *KIRK*: He won't break off now. He's followed me this far. He'll be back. [ *melodramatically*] But? from? where? *SPOCK*: He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking. *KIRK*: Full stop. *SULU*: Full stop, sir. *KIRK*: Z minus ten thousand meters <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTptESoXdxQ>. Standby, photon torpedoes. I don't know if it actually inspired this scene in Star Trek, but the ability to interpret sporadic signals along with a captain's mathematical genius in multiple dimensions is what actually happened with the HMS Venturer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Uv04GN20U>. Gene Roddenberry was a fan of WWII movies and used many of the movie "submarine" sound effects in the original Star Trek. —b9 On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 8:05 AM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 5:56 PM David Plass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Port is left, starboard is right, aft is back, forward is... forward (in >> TNG, remember 10 Forward?) >> >> Thanks for trying it out! >> >> > That seems like all the directions. What is clockwise/counterclockwise > about? > > -- John. > >>
