Star Trek: Picard Just Acknowledged What Star Trek Fans Have Known For Years, Starships Need Carpet
Captain Picard is on our side in the debate over what's most important in a starship.
Starships need carpet. It’s a fact every Star Trek has known since a camera was first focused on the bridge of the Enterprise-D back in the 80s, showcasing that ship’s warm, comfortable, and livable inner decks.
In recent years, Star Trek seems to have forgotten that. New Star Trek makes its ships look dark, unhospitable, and so shiny you can barely see anything at all.
Instead of warm, comfortable carpet and a living-room-like place you’d be comfortable spending your time, we’ve seen new Starfleet ship after new Starfleet ship with bridges and hallways so reflective they’re almost mirrors, and so uninviting they seem like a place you would be glad to get a break from as soon as possible.
But in episode 9 of Star Trek: Picard’s season 3, newly demoted Captain Picard himself stepped up and said what we’ve all been thinking. He stepped out on to the bridge of the freshly restored Enterprise-D and said the words we’ve all been thinking: “It wasn’t until this moment, reunited with all of you, I realized what I’ve missed most. The carpet.”
Seeing the bridge of the Enterprise-D for the first time in over thirty-years felt like coming home. She felt comfortable. She felt right. In part, that’s because of the carpet. The carpet and all the other perfect details showrunner Terry Matalas and his team got right in their impeccable re-creation of the iconic Enterprise-D bridge.
Starships need carpet. Someone call a flooring guy; maybe there’s still time to fix the Titan. While we wait, here are a few of the best beauty shots of the faithfully reconstructed bridge of the NCC-1701-D Enterprise on Star Trek: Picard…
