Haha, so many exploding consoles in Star Trek. Who designed the Enterprise? Imagine if you were at your job and your laptop exploded?
seat belts is another one. They didn’t put those in until the new movies.
I think consoles exploding has more to do with the integrated nature of the design on a starship and the thing running on plasma (which permeates the ship).
Each console is essentially like an extension of a keyboard and a monitor connected to the computer core deep in the ship, so you can do your thing (thing is, isn't it a bit of an overkill to have those running on plasma directly?).
The problem arises that when in combat, the EPS grid becomes strained (aka feedback from weapons fire) which results in occasional discharges.
One way to get around this would be wireless displays and kb... or a laptop like the one each crewmember has in their quarters.
Thing is that on a starship, you need large displays or a larger work area, but in that case, just have the consoles be separate of their main EPS gird.
Otherwise, each plasma discharge is like a lightning strike... which can easily short out your computer (unless you have a circuit breaker).
Maybe plasma is more difficult to control (aka shut down) in such a capacity.
As for seat belts... well, inertial dampers work wonders and would technically be far superior to seatbelts. Also, where are you going to install them all given that a lot of workspaces on a ship don't necessarily come with chairs?
If you're on the go, then you'd need to strap yourself up to a wall... that, or just reinforce structural integrity and innertial damping systems to be more resistant (similar to how difficult it is to knock out aritificial gravity... in which case, the inertial dampening tech would need to be integrated into the gravity plates themselves).
