What is this, what is it for, and is it more important than the thing Spock looks into?
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Those are the tractor beam emitters.
The ship's inertial dampers can easily stop the crew from getting thrown around from space turbulence or torpedo impacts. But if they let the ship's computer / Majel Barrett rag doll the bridge crew every now and then, it'll never go Skynet on them.
Majel Barrett rag doll the bridge crew
Don't threaten Picard with a good time.
Or Riker for that matter.
How is she gonna ragdoll a bucket of goo? Maybe she just splashes him around a bit.
I presume they still have molds and freezers in the future.