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I would imagine civilians' biggest responsibility in such a situation would be "stay out of the way and lock the doors."
Okay then, what did the officers working in the cargo bay do when they were told to go to their battle stations?
Make sure everything is tied down well and then prep for damage control, probably. Cargo bay officers are probably under the Quartermaster's purview, so there's probably a lot they need to do to support repair efforts.
Everything isn't tied down anyway? That sounds like a terrible way to run a cargo bay on a ship that regularly takes unexpected moves.
Edit: Also, they damn well better lock shit down after the incident with Worf's spine.
When you're talking about a ship's capacity that's approaching five digits, that stuff would have to be moved around a lot.
The ship has interia dampers. It doesn't take any turns in a gravity sense during normal operations. It's just smoothly level at all times.
Battle or red alert can knock interia dampers off line, so that when you would need things locked down.
Dude, have you ever watched TNG? The dampers go offline constantly.
On the bridge, so officers can look cool. No way the "we have first backup, but what about second backup" federation doesn't have redundant, localized inertia damping in the cargo bays.
Yeah, but after you're ultimately responsible for breaking the spine of the Klingon officer who almost certainly outranks you, you make sure that cargo doesn't budge even if the ship does a barrel roll without dampeners and gravity going on and off.
Without dampers, the entire crew become jam splotches on the back walls when the enterprise makes any maneuver
And yet, "inertial dampeners offline" is a really common phrase in Star Trek shows.
To the point that you can literally get it on a shirt.
Yeah, but they're maneuvering at appreciable fractions of the speed of light when they travel at impulse, so there's no way anyone survives if they're all offline. They have to mean that the primaries are offline, or they're offline in certain sections, or something like that.
Well somehow those certain sections always include the bridge.
Can't possibly be the bridge as a whole. When I said "certain sections," I meant, like, every third square centimeter or something. If the entire bridge inertial dampeners were completely offline, our heroic crew wouldn't be jumping madly across the bridge, they'd be a thin paste of organic material on the wall.
Actually, having individual sections fluctuating could explain some of the wilder dives Kirk & Co did during battle sequences, now that I think about it.