The bridge station known as ops, from which an officer manages a starship's power, sensors and other shared resources, held by Data on the Enterprise-D.
The operations station, called ops for short, is one of the two forward posts on the bridge of the Enterprise-D, beside the conn. The officer there oversees how the ship's power, sensors, communications and computer time are shared out among departments, and reports sensor readings to the captain.
Data serves as operations officer throughout The Next Generation and the films that follow, and the post suits an android who can follow many tasks at once. When he is away or in command, a junior officer takes the console.
On Voyager the station stands at the side of the bridge and belongs to Harry Kim, fresh from the Academy in Caretaker and still an ensign at ops seven years later. On Deep Space 9 the name Ops is used differently, for the station's whole operations centre.