Object

Guest Lounge Television (Teevee)

Wall-mounted, human-scale entertainment display embedded in the Enterprise guest lounge. The unit emits a soft, watchable image and audio from a flat viewing surface sized for casual group viewing; its bezel and mount read as standard starship furnishings and it appears operable and well-maintained. Guests treat it as a domestic focal point: Sonny fidgets with its controls, Ralph and Clare set their attention on the screen, and others use it as a brief comfort while officers attend to duty.
2 appearances

Purpose

Provide audiovisual programming for guests in the Enterprise guest lounge—serve as a human-scale viewing screen for communal entertainment and informational broadcasts.

Significance

Functions as a cultural touchstone and temporary comfort for 20th‑century survivors, dramatizing their loss of familiar anchors (e.g., Sonny searching for television soaps). The set creates a moment of domestic normalcy that contrasts with command duty and highlights survivors' emotional dislocation.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments