The chairs at the rear stations do pull out https://twitter.com/lizklocz/status/1650655626522132480?s=46&t=GJ4lIGndtLwuph_LJO2AJw
Maybe just that one, cos it's Geordi's old station. It'd be a huge waste of money to make them all pull out when they knew it'd never be used.
Yep, thats really cool. I just wish they'd have included it on screen so it'd be "canon". Ah fuck it, I'm gonna assume that happened.
The Enterprise was able to get pull Peregrine from the surface of a planet, all on her own, with the use of a tractor beam. If The Enterprise could pull a ship of equal size from the surface of a planet, all on her own, over 100 years prior, you'd think late 24th century Starfleet wouldn't need such a large operation to remove the Saucer of the Ent-D.
The Enterprise-D saucer alone weighs something like 4 million tons, and without structural integrity fields may have been in danger of breaking up. I suspect a lot of that operation was getting the saucer into a condition where it was safe to be moved.
I really think people need to not get too hung up on the whole "worksite at Enterprise crash scene". It was a thematic concept and is meant to simply represent a massive task
I think we saw a seat being pulled out as many as one time on TNG, we definitely saw people sitting back there. Troi in The Ensigns Of Command springs to mind, and Riker in Rascals.
Hell, for all we know they were using the saucer as a temporary command centre while figuring out how to decontaminate the system – remove the giant trench in the planet's surface, deal with debris in orbit etc.
The Enterprise D reveal was totally predictable yet one of the best moments in Star Trek history. Majel Barret's voice was the icing on the cake, made all the more special by the lack of Majel Barret's voice on the Titan.