Duty locker
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The Pilots Duty Locker is a crew quarters room. The walls have rows of recessed bunks (racks) for sleeping, with several lockers between each set for personal affects and mirrors. In the middle are either one large table or several small tables. Pilots and others are seen both sleeping, playing cards, and socializing there during their time off. In several cases personnel lock the entrance hatch, and engage in activities of a more private nature, leaving a pair of boots hung up on the hatch as a signal to the other pilots to stay out.
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- The pilots' quarters on Galactica exemplify several of the founding principles of Naturalistic Science Fiction on the series, to ground the show in reality. Instead of the large, hotel-like individual crew quarters on Star Trek series, most of the Galactica crew have a shared group living space with only a cramped bunk to call their own, just like on a present-day Earth aircraft carrier. Only the CO and XO of Galactica have been seen to have personal quarters; even the comparatively high-ranking pilot officers and even the CAG on Galactica live, sleep, and play in cramped, run-down conditions.