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Guest Quarters Spare Bed

A narrow single bed set against the holodeck’s recreated guest‑quarter wall: low‑profile frame, plain neutral linens, a single pillow and a thin coverlet. The fabric reads utilitarian—slightly rumpled where bodies sat—and the mattress yields under characters who perch on its edge. Manua leans against it to stage a seduction, Riker uses its edge as a footing for exit, and Apgar’s violence rocks its surface; later the frozen program leaves its sheets as visual evidence amid Krag’s overlayed reconstruction.
8 appearances

Purpose

Provide temporary sleeping accommodation and a simple seating/staging surface within a shipboard guest quarters (here reproduced in a holodeck program).

Significance

Functions as the intimate locus that converts private flirtation into public motive: the bed’s domestic familiarity heightens humiliation when Apgar strikes and Riker withdraws, and its unchanged position in a frozen holoprogram becomes a visual anchor for Krag’s evidentiary reconstruction that escalates the investigation.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

8 moments