A common misconception today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders, but Classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not the terrestrial globe; the solidity of the marble globe borne by the Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation, reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps.

I’m aware, but there’s nothing I can do about people’s misunderstanding of ancient mythology in the fictional 24th century (or 20th century writers for that matter).