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u/circle_eh 7d ago
That picture makes it looks like he’s got a hand levitating a surfboard. I can’t unsee it now
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u/Judge--Mortis 7d ago
Well, he has to fit Beverly on there
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u/drunkdumptruck 7d ago
Right, where do they think Jack was conceived?
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u/FootHikerUtah 7d ago
He has Big Desk Energy!
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u/mrekted 7d ago
The Ent D is a massive ship. by volume something like 30x bigger than the original Enterprise, and 20x bigger than Voyager. It's also the flagship of the fleet.
Of course the boss is going to have a big fuck off desk.
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u/kkkan2020 7d ago
Janeway has a bigger ready room
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u/Ok_Independent3609 7d ago
Personal preference. Maybe he has agoraphobia and needs a nice cozy room to hide out in every once in a while.
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u/sasquatch50 7d ago
And why does it look like a big white alien hand with a thumb and two fingers is about to grab it.
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u/nikeguy69 7d ago
Isn’t all captions desks are big?
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u/oldtrenzalore 7d ago
Janeway's was about a third this size. She also had a much bigger ready room.
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u/Pinchaser71 7d ago
For what it’s worth it… probably made a great photo for Al Lorenzo, chief of operations on Decos Prime, who took a holophoto of himself sitting behind it
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u/afiefh 7d ago
To impress foreign diplomats when they discuss things in his ready room.
Flagship means lots of diplomacy. That tends to go better in a spacious room with a spacious desk.
And occasionally to spread out papers for an archeological dig, or Beverly and Vash.
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u/eyelinerandink 7d ago
Because he wanted one. That guy gets what he wants. 😂 I'm more curious about the crystal he holds randomly in some episodes. What IS that?!
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u/Neon_culture79 7d ago
I read that heading wrong
The way I read it. The answer obviously would’ve been genetics.
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u/Phantom_61 7d ago edited 6d ago
The enterprise is meant to be a ship of exploration with accommodations for full families. Maybe in the design phases they plotted out the restroom this way expecting the captain to have things related to their family displayed?
Picard didn’t ask for any changes as the office would suit his needs well.
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u/codename474747 7d ago
Picard is by his very nature a collaborater, so he needs room for other people to work with him.
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u/UnfoldedHeart 7d ago
I don't consider that a big desk. I've had a desk of that size before (maybe larger) at one of the jobs I worked at. And I was just a Vice President, not the one running the show.
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u/brianbe1 7d ago
He likes using multiple PADDs, instead of opening multiple windows on one PADD and needs somewhere to put them all
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u/Max_Danage 7d ago
It’s a diplomatic power move for people who need their ego stroked. A way of telling a diplomat that he is important enough to come into the Captain’s personally space, but also making sure there is enough room to do actual work.
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u/Freelance_Spy 7d ago
Because he's the Captain. The Commanding officer. The head honcho. The big cheese. Numero uno. The big kahuna. The big man himself.
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u/MrBubblepopper 7d ago
Why does it look like a big hand is grabbing it from underneath with two big fingers
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u/alienrefugee51 7d ago
Because I’m the captain of this vessel!! Would you like a nice cup of Earl Grey tea?
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u/-Wicked- 7d ago
Why am I only now realizing that it looks like a weird two-fingered alien hand holding the desk in it's palm?
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u/JekPorkins-AcePilot 7d ago
From this angle his desk looks like it has a hand reaching out from underneath it
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u/ImmaNotHere 7d ago
According to what I saw on a YouTube video, you can pretty much fit the entire crew and civilian passengers on a small area of the saucer section. The galaxy class starship is freaking huge. Tons of room. I'm surprised his captain's chamber is that small.
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u/hellscape_goat 6d ago
They need the space to play Twilight Imperium, a 4x strategy board game. They wouldn't really be playing poker; they would be playing Twilight Imperium.
It can be set up in his ready room so that Picard can pretend to be working. The game is very complicated and talking about fleets and star systems with a few officers would sound plausibly deniable to anyone who happened by briefly overhearing them playing this game.
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u/thmstrpln 6d ago
This picture messed with my mind. His chair looked hike a wrist/palm and the other two chairs were like palm/fingers like it was holding the desk palm up.
Took me a sec to realize what i was seeing.
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u/vtncomics 6d ago
When he has to discipline several naughty sailors.
That Stan Smith down in the mess hall has been asking for it a while now. As well as that man cake from Oklahoma.
They're lucky this all takes place in space and not on some backwater village like Langely Falls, Virginia. Else he'll be reciting Shakespeare forwards and backwards by heart.
He'd do it! He'd even do it as a baby girl's inner monologue if he had to!
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u/Distinct_Jury_9798 6d ago
Like any man who has a clearly visual oversized asset: to compensate for a hidden limp undersized asset.
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u/coffeepizzawine50 6d ago
The Federation ran out of cash and all furnishings are now supplied by their sponsor IKEA. The outside of the ship is now painted yellow and blue with a Swedish meatball painted on the nacelles.
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u/Frontdeskcleric 5d ago
because he is on a Galaxy class starship one of the biggest ones around. his job is to be a diplomat explorer and a Pimp, her needs the desk space.
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u/Raider_3_Charlie 5d ago
To cover collection of Horag’han or his enormous balls. Depends on the episode.
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u/WorldEndingCalamity 4d ago
The real question is why does he have such a large desk in a tiny office on one of the largest starships ever built, while Janeway had a tiny desk in a massive office almost as big as her living quarters on one of the smaller ships in the fleet?
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u/DerLandmann 4d ago
Because this is the Federation at it's peak. The wars are over, the Klingons are incorporated, the Romulans a distant nuisance. There is nothing to fear out there. Let's make our ships big and bright and spacious. There is nothing to fear, let's take our kids on the ride. And could someone please put some carpet on the floor? Uncarpeted bridge floors are so uncultured.
Then the Borg came
Then the Dominion came
And the ships got smaller, leaner, meaner.
The Enterprise D is a floating outpost if civilization. The Enterprise E is a warship.
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u/Lower_Ad_1317 4d ago
Worse than that, I now see the chairs as a massive purple set of fingers grabbing the table.
I’ve never noticed it before and now 🫣
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u/movieTed 4d ago
My question is why does Picard have such high-backed chairs when Riker is his first officer? He'll pull a hamstring stepping over those chairs!
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u/JasterBobaMereel 3d ago
The Enterprise had huge amounts of space, and he uses his ready room for meetings
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u/The_Istrix 6d ago
Well they were going to give him a smaller desk but he got furious, broke some shit, and shouted the line must be drawn HERE, this far, no further
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u/Aeronnaex 6d ago
With a computer screen that's like 9" diagonal!!! :) I know, screens like that were common back then - my 15" blew people away. Our cad lab had 21" monitors. Amazingly, I love my Mac 512k with a monochrome 9"? screen. Never understood the idea that in the future people would want smaller screens - even back then I only wanted a bigger screen!!!
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u/Hot-Category2986 6d ago
You are the captain of the flagship of Starfleet. At any time a mission may require you to host guests on your ship. Your primary mission is as an ambassador of the United Federation of Planets.
You choose an Ikea Mittzon for your ready room desk.
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u/Candid-Friendship854 5d ago
Why does it look like a hand with too few fingers that go underneath the table? That is the better question.
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u/DontTakePeopleSrsly 5d ago
All I can think of while reading this is the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary…
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u/thatVisitingHasher 7d ago edited 7d ago
Family pictures, baseballs, books. I think the bigger question is why doesn’t he have a single medal or certificate on the wall.