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*** Even if having families on board the ship is justified, then why do they even allow children in the stardrive section? Each time they have to separate, there's an evacuation sequence, showing families and children scurrying to get to the saucer. Shouldn't the stardrive section be off limits to everyone except necessary personnel so when they separate the saucer they can do it much quicker?
**** Yes that one does seem like [[Fridge Logic]] to me as well, as it is implied that most of the non military amenities (holodecks, ten forward, etc.. ) are located in the saucer. As for the saucer, if memory serves there was a statement by [[Word of God]] that saucer separation was originally going to be a regular thing, but was ultimately reduced to limited use for the same reason the show staff came up with the transporters, not because it was too expensive to show the saucer separating (stock footage and all) regularly, but would have taken too much TIME out of the story to show and would have unnecessarily disrupted the flow of the story.
**** Personnel assigned to certain sections of the ship also generally have quarters in that section of the ship. Thus people that work in the stardrive would probably have quarters in the stardrive, especially the engineering crew (allowing them to get there much more quickly in a crisis, especially if the turbolifts are down). Thus, stardrive section workers who have families would probably have their families with them in the stardrive section quarters. It was probably one of those things where someone said "Well, this isn't ''ideal'' for saucer separation purposes, but the captain will just have to run drills." Plus Starfleet probably had a somewhat idealistic view that saucer separation wouldn't be necessary that often, hoping they wouldn't run into a lot of situations necessitating it. (From an out-of-universe perspective, the evacuations just make saucer sep feel more dramatic and significant.)
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