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:
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.