Enterprise has eight times the internal volume of Kirk's ship and about 110 square meters of living space per person. Its three sickbays, twenty transporter systems, and more than one hundred laboratories support fields ranging from stellar cartography to archaeology and botany. A complement of 1,012 includes civilians and people from many Federation and non-Federation worlds. These figures describe a mobile research and diplomatic institution rather than a conventional combatant. They also reveal how much space could be reassigned if Starfleet removed laboratories, schools, family accommodation, and other peacetime facilities during a crisis.
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The Galaxy class as an expeditionary institution
Enterprise's accommodation, medical facilities, transporter capacity, and more than one hundred laboratories make the Galaxy class a mobile research institution with an unusually large reconfiguration margin.