Why bother stocking equipment/supplies *at all *if the replicator can produce anything on demand? :dubious: 
So build replicators into each compartment to keep them stocked. Or if there isn’t room for the tech, have it automatically replicated elsewhere and beamed in. No need for anything to ever be out of inventory for more than a couple of seconds.
Relying on replicators for all your emergency equipment doesn’t work great when the emergency disables your replicators.
To my eye – which admittedly is biased by things that I’ve seen a lot – those look like legacy disk drives. I’m pretty sure that DEC or IBM made drives that look a lot like that. I can’t put my finger on an exact one right now, but these DEC RLO2s would be very similar if they were half-height instead of a full cabinet height.
Must be one hell of an emergency! :eek:
Bingo. You don’t want to be caught short on something critical when the replicators are offline.
Or it might take too long for a replicator to fabricate some particular thing–they take a two or three seconds to make a cup of tea, after all. If you’re fabbing an emergency item like breather masks for 15 people, that adds up. Or you want everyone to be able to grab a tactical harness with a full load-out, so the whole bridge crew can bug out in under a minute.
Or it could just be that, while replicators are clearly common, they’re not so common or cheap (in terms of power, resources, or maintenance) that you want to put 30 of them in a room just to handle a task that the bridge crew can easily cover in idle moments during normal shifts. If they were that common, you’d expect there to be one at every station on the bridge.
Finally, this is a quasi-military facility, and bridge duty is going to be boring most of the time. Whenever possible in those circumstances, you give people routine, but useful, manual tasks to get them moving and keep them awake (and out of mischief).
The way everything explodes and shorts out on the bridge after one or two phaser hits, I find it hard to believe there’s anything “critical” in those bins that would be of much help. It would be like having a “See, Mom?” escape hatch on a submarine.
Might just as well write the bridge crew off. They’re going to be incinerated/suffocated/sucked out into space before they can even open those bins. They’re just a waste of space and the energy needed to maintain them.
What’s a “See, Mom?” escape hatch?
The thing you show your parents when they visit your boat and worry you might not be able to get out if you’re sunk: “Sure we can. See, Mom? We have an escape hatch right here.”
Unless you go down in very shallow water, the damned things are useless.