Object

Assorted Classroom Potted Plants

Several small pots—mixes of plastic and chipped ceramic—crowd a windowsill and low shelving: a spider plant with trailing stems, a squat succulent, and a handful of leafy houseplants. Soil appears recently damp; leaves bear faint smudges from children's hands. The plants sit passive and unobtrusive, absorbing classroom light and softening hard institutional angles as students file around them. Adults treat the greenery as background; Picard and Troi move through the room while the plants remain silently domestic.

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Purpose

To decorate the classroom and create a calming, home-like learning environment for the children.

Significance

Acts as a quiet emotional anchor: the ordinary, tender domesticity of the plants heightens the contrast with the grave duty about to be carried out, underscoring the vulnerability of the child and the moral weight of the adults' intervention.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S3E5 · The Bonding

Picard and Troi Isolate Jeremy

A cluster of potted plants occupies the classroom's windowsill and shelves, softening the institutional space and contributing to the warm, domestic atmosphere that contrasts with the gravity of the summons; they are purely environmental but shape the scene's intimacy.

Before: Arranged on windowsill and low shelving, soil damp and leaves slightly smudged from children's hands.

After: Unchanged physically; they remain passive background during the exit and continue to soften the room's tone.

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