Admit it, you wanted to ask which movies and shows have done it. Instead of asking for people to tell you what the correct answer is, it’s far more effective to post the wrong answer, and wait for the flood of answers to arrive.
The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles.
Submitted 4 hours ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
early_riser@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Someone has spent a lot of time on Linux forums
ns1@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Who else is thinking of that one scene near the start of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Or Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard, Worf, and redshirt Neil McDonough testt out their zero G combat training, further cementing the fact that Star Trek only remembers that space has no gravity when it’s relevant to the plot.
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 hours ago
They do throw things out the airlock an awful lot. Though, somehow, Borg ding have the strength to stop it but Beverly Crusher does.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 hours ago
That was my first thought and I am having trouble thinking of additional examples.
wjrii@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“Gravity plating!” As long as there is floor, you’re good.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I’m glad somebody else caught this, it always irritated me and Enterprise when they insisted that it was a gravity generator and not just plating.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Magnetic shoes?
early_riser@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
Doylist explanation: it would be too expensive for the FX department.
As it happens, the same worldbuilding project I mentioned in another post here sort of addresses this. The same aliens mentioned there don’t use artificial gravity at all. Being arboreal creatures they’re well suited to microgravity and can happily live permanently in zero G. Upon meeting humans and learning that we want artificial gravity (specifically centrifugal gravity), they wonder why we spent all the effort to get away from gravity only to spend even more effort to bring it back.
Since human orbital colonies take the form of O’Neil cylinders, you can cut off the gravity by halting the cylinder’s rotation. If stopped abruptly enough this would cause a lot of damage initially as objects go flying. It would also put the terrestrial, bipedal humans at a disadvantage compared to the aliens with five prehensile extremities.
XiberKernel@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Gravity is on a separate subsystem & power supply, because without gravity people couldn’t reasonably move and fix the rest of the ship, so even when compared to general life support, it’s the most critical function and the most isolated.
And production cost.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
On a space station more than a space battle, but Titan AE had a scene that made good use of this. The station is old, and early in the scene the gravity generator goes on the fritz, causing everyone to float until some percussive maintenance gets it working again. When bad guys show up Matt Damon shoots the generator to cause some confusion and let him escape faster by pushing off toward the exit.
tychosmoose@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Moonraker has a similar scene.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 2 hours ago
Cough, Undiscovered Country.
TarnFan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They did in the first episode of Transformers Animated. Granted, that was a cartoon, which made it infinitely easier to have them float in zero gravity than a live action movie.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country did it, even making it a point during the Trial ;-)
infinitevalence@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Production costs!
The expanse did this well because they used acceleration not artificial gravity.
Sephtis@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Expanse did it amazingly imo, it also adds some realism into a otherwise very fictional story, which makes it somewhat easier to vibe with it.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Gawwwd, the scene where mid fight there are unsecured wrenches floating around was so beautifully tense.
manxu@piefed.social 4 hours ago
“Captain, we were hit by a Class IV Photon torpedo in the aft. The production budget exploded!”
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Just flip around halfway and start slowing down! Free acceleration / deceleration gravity.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They actually do that in The Expanse.