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Captain's Ready Room Viewscreen (consolidated wall & tabletop variants)

Consolidated Captain's Ready Room viewscreen: a touch- and gesture-responsive high-resolution display used by Picard in the Ready Room. Physically attestation covers both a recessed wall-mounted viewscreen with matte trim and soft-blue indicator lighting and a compact desk-top/tabletop viewer set flush or sitting on the captain's desk. The pane accepts freehand input and stylus-like gestures, renders vector math and annotations (notably Fermat's Last Theorem), switches instantly between contemplative starfields, personal work displays and tactical/sensor overlays, and responds to voice and gesture for rapid command decisions.
24 appearances

Purpose

To present secure visual communications, personal work displays, and sensor readouts—supporting the captain's private study and rapid command decisions by switching between contemplative display and tactical information.

Significance

Serves as the institutional mouthpiece and visual locus of authority in the Ready Room: Haftel’s image on the screen converts policy language into a direct, adversarial demand, and the screen’s return to the starfield punctuates Picard’s moral stand and the transition back to shipboard agency.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

24 moments