Captain's Ready Room The Captain's Ready Room doubles as an Office and a second private cabin he may use when staying near the bridge is important. Meetings between the Captain and crew members often take place is these pleasant surroundings. Unlike the Ready Rooms of larger ships, the Defiant Class Ready Room does not offer the Captain wash room facilities. The room is sparse in creature comforts, used mainly for compiling the many reports a Starfleet Captain must endure, however it is equipped with a replicator which Connare James frequently uses, to maintain his Raktajino fixation.
Taking pride of place in Captain James's ready room is an old medieval sword. This sword saved the Captain's life only recently during the Highlander's crash landing on an unknown planet during the Dominion War. Trapped on a Level 2 Technology world, the Captain was gravely wounded during an altercation with a band of Brigands. Connare relied on this sword to protect and in the end support him until he was rescued.