Environmental Systems

Environmental Systems

The Environmental Systems station permits monitoring and control of the life support systems aboard the U.S.S. Victory. Although this station is often unattended due to the highly automated nature of these systems, this station is of crucial importance during crisis and Alert situations.

This station is normally programmed to monitor status and performance for atmosphere, temperature, gravity, inertial damping, and shielding subsystems. Environment also monitors critical consumables such as oxygen and water. Finally, this station also oversees the function of the various recycling and reprocessing systems that insure a continuous supply of breathable air, water, food, and other consumables. When unattended, this station's programming will alert Ops of any situation requiring crew attention.

During Alert and crisis situations, Environment serves as a deputy Operations Manager, monitoring and allocating life support resources to maximize crew survivability. The Environmental Systems Officer (when required on the bridge) is authorized to initiate Yellow and Red Alert conditions and is responsible for execution of survival scenarios such as evacuation to environmental shelter areas.