Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The La Sirena

While the interior of the La Sirena was designed to reflect the existential crisis of Cris Rios, the Star Trek: Picard art department also considered its in-universe function as a cargo hauler.

Distinguished by a series of repeating structural ribs extending from the back of the cockpit to the cargo transporter, the interior of the ship is intended to store massive cargo containers which slot between those ribs. However, as previously mentioned, the ship is also supposed to have undergone major overhauls in its not-inconsiderable lifespan, including the installation of Federation shipping containers by Rios himself.

These Federation shipping containers serve as the La Sirena's staterooms and can be seen used by Agnes, Raffi, and Rios over the course of Star Trek: Picard season one, though only one was constructed and dressed by the set decorators to serve as different compartments.

According to set decorator, Lisa Alkofer, even the furniture on the La Sirena was designed to be modular:

Everything that we built can play in more than one configuration, because I wanted to be able to use them in different parts of the ship, for different things... All of the furniture in the staterooms is supposed to look modular, attached, like they’re part of the architecture... Everything could be moved, if he wanted to change how the desk was, he could face the desk or sit perpendicular to it. The desk chair has a flow, the back, again looking like a spine, which reflects the ship – when you look down the front of the ship, it looks like a spine. I like to have carry-through on designs – not exact replications, but the essence.

Speaking of furniture, Alkofer also contributed to the La Sirena's cockpit, using metallic thread upholstery for the the Rios' captain's chair which reflects light onto the actors in the generally dimly lit sets.