Well, that's the thing. We don't know. But changes to the ship -- unplanned, unpleasant, uneplained, not like the parties -- are usually... bad signs.

The rink vanishing might just be a vagary of the Admiral, or it might be the indication of a larger problem. And the last time someone did this, they'd -- uh, jacked themselves into the barge, downloaded it into their brain and had become an extension of the ship itself.... wherein it acted out all their frustrations with the barge system, making it much more like a prison.