>>212996345
>the whole point here is that cetacean ops is nothing like what they show on LD where there are huge water tubes running all around a tiny ship
Except it's not that, your entire argument is cetacean ops is where the marine mammals work and they have access to the rest of the ship through a tube system you created which takes up space to the point the crew have to sleep in hallways. On the Enterprise-D, going from the information we have, it's contained to a single deck and the Cetacean ops on the USS Cerritos is only this.
Before you complain about the size, the Cetacean crew members also go on away missions as well so they can stretch their flippers that way.

>>212996410
This.