Captain ' s ready room The captain ' s ready room was a personal office reserved for the commanding officer of a starship and was typically accessed from the bridge . Here , the captain could engage in administrative work with all relevant office equipment at hand without interfering with bridge operations while having instant access to the bridge in the event of a crisis . In addition , this room was usually the preferred place where the captain could hold private discussions and / or receive classified communications . In the absence of the ship ' s commanding officer , the use of the ready room accordingly fell to whichever officer was in command of the vessel at the time . ( etc . ) Starship ready rooms . NX - class . On vessels of the 22nd century , the captain ' s ready room was located starboard of the bridge , directly across from the turbolift . Office space in these early ready rooms was much more cramped than that of 24th century vessels and featured pipes running along the length of the ceiling , which was itself relatively low . The room had one window and one door . ( ) A short corridor outside the room was usually used as an access to and from the bridge , although it also led to the starship ' s network of corridors . ( ) The ready room was located to the aft of an emergency rescue hatch , as an exterior sign indicating this hatch ' s location was visible immediately below the ready room window . ( ) Aboard , Captain Jonathan Archer ' s ready room was sparse compared to its future counterparts , featuring a desk , small couch and portraits of ships named " Enterprise " , including a sailing ship , the second aircraft carrier , the orbiter , and the NX - 01 itself . ( ) The room was plagued by a persistent squeak that , though seemingly repaired , resurfaced from time to time until it was apparently fixed for good by the automated repair station in 2152 . ( ) Two years later , the room was one of numerous areas aboard the ship that were heavily damaged during the Battle of Azati Prime . Thereafter , neither the room ' s door nor its door chime were functioning . ( ) A version of " Enterprise " from an alternate timeline in which the vessel was sent back 117 years into the past retained its ready room until at least 2154 . However , at that point , the room no longer had its sketches of " Enterprise " , as they had been replaced with various alien - looking artifacts . ( ) " Walker " - class . The starship featured a ready room to the port side of the bridge . It contained a desk for the captain as well as a conference table with six seats . The had a ready room in which Captain Philippa Georgiou and first officer Michael Burnham have a heated discussion about how to respond to a Klingon vessel . ( ) " Crossfield " - class . The starship featured a ready room to the port side of the bridge . It was lightly furnished with a standing desk for the captain , a computer , and several large wall - mounted displays . The had a ready room in which Captain and Michael Burnham first met after Burnham ' s prison shuttle was rescued by the " Discovery " . ( ) " Galaxy " - class . On a starship , the captain ' s ready room was located port of the main bridge , beside the forward - port turbolift . It was approximately seven meters in length . ( ) Among the items kept in Captain Jean - Luc Picard ' s ready room was a copy of " " , a model of a " Constellation " - class starship ( registry NCC - 7100 ) , a crystal model of a sailing ship , an ancient nautical sextant , and the Kurlan " naiskos " given to Picard by his mentor Richard Galen ( ; ) as well as a salt water aquarium containing his fish , Livingston . The room featured a large desk with a personal computer and three chairs , a couch , a large portrait of the , and , in a side alcove , a food replicator . Despite remaining mostly unchanged throughout its service aboard the " Enterprise " - D , Picard ' s ready room was temporarily redecorated ( most notably , the fish tank removed ) when Captain Edward Jellico briefly took command in 2369 . ( ) A smaller , seldom - used ready room was also incorporated into the battle bridge on the stardrive section of the ship . ( ) " Defiant " - class . Like the other rooms on the , the ready room of the was small and compact . In 2374 , Captain Tim Watters spoke to Nog in the ' s ready room . Watters told him of the " Valiant " s mission to destroy a Jem ' Hadar battleship . Watters and Karen Farris later brought Jake Sisko to the ready room to warn him to stay away from Dorian Collins . ( ) Several month s later , Captain Benjamin Sisko spoke to Captain Lisa Cusak from his ready room . They talked about the Dominion War , Starfleet ' s attempts to liberate Betazed from the Dominion and his discomfort with having Kasidy Yates aboard . ( ) In 2375 , Sisko spoke to Ezri Dax on Deep Space 9 from his ready room on the " Defiant " to tell her they had been unsuccessful in locating Worf and other members of the . ( ) " Intrepid " - class . On an starship , the captain ' s ready room was located starboard of the main bridge , beside the tactical station . The desk , which featured a work area and access console , was the focal point of the room , located in front of the main entrance door . A raised level in the front section of the room featured a small table , a curved couch , and a food replicator . The bulkhead behind the couch featured three windows facing the bow of the ship . A port - facing door beside the main entrance provided secondary access to the room from a deck 1 corridor . ( ) A shelf beside the main work desk allowed the commanding officer to display personal belongings . Captain Kathryn Janeway , of the " Intrepid " - class , used this shelf to display various historical and archaeological items . " Sovereign " - class . Aboard vessels , the ready room was located to the forward starboard side of the main bridge . It featured a small window looking out into space and a private entrance located off the bridge . Captain Picard ' s ready room aboard the featured a desk and small couch . It was decorated with items from the previous " Enterprise " , including his Mintakan tapestry . It also contained a large , gold model of the " Enterprise " - E herself , along with the " Enterprise " - D , C , B , A and the original " Enterprise " . ( ) Other . Captain Benjamin Maxwell had a ready room aboard the starship in 2367 , as did Captain Leyton aboard the during the Tzenkethi War . ( ; ) Ready rooms have also been included within starships built and used by other spacefaring organizations than Starfleet . The Andorian Imperial Guard , for example , were known to equip their vessels with such a room as early as 2153 , when Commander Shran used a ready room on the Andorian battle cruiser " Kumari " . ( ) There was also a ready room aboard the Xindi - Primate Degra ' s ship , around the same time . ( ) Similarly , the Klingon Empire constructed ready rooms in some of their Birds - of - Prey ; General Martok had a ready room aboard the in the 2370s , and another while briefly serving as commander of the in 2375 . ( ) Appendices . Background information . The concept of a ready room was first conceived by Robert Justman , who proposed the creation of such a room in a memo dated . ( " " 3rd ed . , p . 8 ) Years later , he recalled , " " I suggested to Gene [ Roddenberry ] that we should have a captain ' s ready room , for what we both considered as a dramatic necessity . In a show like " Star Trek " , you need to have a place where the star , or the captain , can go to have a privileged conversation with someone else , without the possibility of being overheard . To me , the ready room was the perfect place to have that . " " ( ) Justman took the idea from Navy experience he himself had had . The ready room was therefore in accordance with Roddenberry wanting to adhere to naval custom . ( ) James Mees was of the opinion that the identity of a ready room ' s occupant should inform how the room itself looks . " " My question is this : Does a ready room always have to have a desk , a chair , and a place for someone else to sit , or does the form and function of the room vary between races ? " " Mees asked . " " To me , it seems clear that different people need different spaces . For instance , Degra ' s Ready Room is more a working laboratory than an office , because that ' s what he wants and needs . " " ( ) David A . Goodman picked fault with the captain ' s ready rooms whose walls featured " Enterprise " pictures , such as the ready room aboard the " Enterprise " and the equivalent room on the " Enterprise " . He thought it unrealistic that a person ' s office aboard an active spacecraft would have images depicting outer space , rather than trees or other more down - to - earth imagery . Although Chris Black countered that each captain couldn ' t see their respective spacecraft from the outside , Goodman noted each vessel ' s external appearance was nonetheless known by its commanding officer . Black settled the debate by reminding Goodman he meanwhile had a picture of his office building on a wall in his own office . ( audio commentary , ENT Season 3 Blu - ray special features ) The practice of using ready rooms seemed to have fallen into disuse by the mid - 23rd century , as the did not appear to have an area specifically designed to serve as a ready room – at least none that was shown in the entire run of " " . Captains instead received a small office area in their quarters , as seen aboard the " Enterprise " refit in and . Although space station Deep Space 9 likewise didn ' t feature a captain ' s ready room , it nonetheless had an office for the facility ' s commanding officer and Production Designer Herman Zimmerman once likened it to a captain ' s ready room . ( " The " Deep Space Nine " Scrapbook " , DS9 Season 1 DVD special features ) Apocrypha . A scene in the non - canon comic " The Modala Imperative " shows Admiral McCoy and Ambassador Spock touring the " Enterprise " - D and , when they get to Picard ' s ready room , McCoy states that , if Kirk had had such an office , they would have never gotten him off the bridge .