I’m surprised they never encountered a race that had legs that bent the other way and just have an awkward moment where the human crew can’t figure out how to sit in the chairs of the alien conference room.
What about the joystick, I mean manual steering column. Pretty sure the one on the Enterprise-E was some dressed up off the shelf model. It looks a bit like something between a logitech wingman extreme and quickshot.
Cool chairs are much more interesting than UAPs. I can sit in a chair and be comfortable reading about them, but can I sit on a UAP and study them? I say nay, nay!
Hey, you don't know that there aren't UFOs out there with amazing chairs in them! That's why we have to identify them: to find out where the best chairs are flying in from!