My opinion is they don’t have antigrav shelves because generally speaking, they don’t need them.
In TNG for example, we are no longer in an era of battleships, where everything is stowed away and strapped down. We are in a time of warp drive and aritifical gravity and smooth cruising.
But more importantly, we are largely in a time of peace, where diplomacy is favoured over war.
You can imagine the quarters of every starship captain might be similarly furnished as Picard’s, with trinkets and little personal items, and that most ships fly around uneventfully on their missions for years, without ever even spilling a cup of tea.
That Enterprise and Voyager happen to be in a scrape every two minutes is like an in-universe statistical outlier.
Compare to DS9 where the Defiant is clearly a ship of war, and is furnished like one.
Pike, after every torpedo, rift, or anomaly:
(edited to be less obtrusive)
That’s every captain.
Kirk:
Janeway:
Freeman:
Georgiou:
Picard:
Picard again, this time with a sexy gaming chair:
You know who DOESN'T keep unnecessary tchotchkes in his space?
Why does Picard have a phaser on his desk…
In case he’s subjected to more of Barclay’s acting.
That’s for people asking nosy questions.
My reflexive is-ENT-a-joke-to-you response is tempered by realizing you have also forgotten Sisko and Burnhan in addition to Archer.
This is some properly calibrated gourmet ragebait 👌
lol I didn’t forget them, I just didn’t want to spend more than 5 minutes on this nonsense.
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(Also, Archer is a rugged survivalist and his spartan quarters don’t contribute to my argument but don’t tell anyone)
All of my office tchotchkes are necessary. Useful as weapons for to clients uncooperative with giving necessary documents convincing.
In my head canon the storage shelves have a stabilization field, maybe anti-grav.
My opinion is they don’t have antigrav shelves because generally speaking, they don’t need them.
In TNG for example, we are no longer in an era of battleships, where everything is stowed away and strapped down. We are in a time of warp drive and aritifical gravity and smooth cruising.
But more importantly, we are largely in a time of peace, where diplomacy is favoured over war.
You can imagine the quarters of every starship captain might be similarly furnished as Picard’s, with trinkets and little personal items, and that most ships fly around uneventfully on their missions for years, without ever even spilling a cup of tea.
That Enterprise and Voyager happen to be in a scrape every two minutes is like an in-universe statistical outlier.
Compare to DS9 where the Defiant is clearly a ship of war, and is furnished like one.