How was the look of the Enterprise D meant to reflect its role as a family ship?

Gene wanted, for lack of a better word, a �High-Regency� approach to the interior of the star ship, he wanted it to be comfortable, wanted it to be spacious. The computer runs everything. It's the kind of ship that you could really feel was your home.

I think we succeeded in doing that. Perhaps to the point of ignoring the realities of space travel. We had lovely large living quarters, the engineering was so efficient that you really didn�t have to do much to keep the ship in motion or to make sure that gravity was functioning properly, unless you were under stress, in a battle situation, or the bad guys had taken out some of your services.