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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, yeah. There’s test footage somewhere of pre-TOS space battles and it’s so boring. Just people at consoles describing damage. The network executives were like, nah, put some firecrackers in there and then stumble around a lot.

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And seatbelts for consoles. People go flying every time they get hit or run over a space whale.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was an anime I once saw, I can’t remember the name of it, where not only did they put on seatbelts for starship combat, but they also geared up in lightweight spacesuits.

    That always seemed like a smart idea.

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    • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Battlestar Galactica did it even better: the bridge where they commanded battles from was deep inside the ship. Unlike in Star Trek and Star Wars where the bridge is at the front top, Battlestar's bridge is nearly impossible to target from other ships. This is especially baffling for Star Trek because they used screens, not windows.

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  • dejected_warp_core@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Detmer absolutely needed a seatbelt and airbag, and she was piloting the damn ship. Also, Discovery’s consoles keep ejecting rocks and flames every time the inertial dampeners fail, and there’s literally nothing to hold on to at most workstations.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    shittiest inertial dampeners in the galaxy

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• FlatFootFox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cathode Ray Dude did a video a while back about the real world equivalent of “Bypassing the relays!” and exploding bridge stations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4A Basically on military equipment like Navy ships, it can be important to be able to bypass circuit breakers and burn out motors if the difference is one last shot getting out.

  “YouTuber talks at a camera for half an hour about something he found at the thrift store” is a well worn trope at this point, but CRD is a really good storyteller. It’s interesting to see out of all the technobabble and cliches on Star Trek, the exploding consoles and EPS relays are actually informed by writers who probably spent parts of their military careers toggling real world “battle shorts”.

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• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I saw someone say that they are the way they are because having tactical, or the helm shutdown during combat is way more deadly to the whole crew than the console exploding on one person

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well when you’re re-routing warp plasma to the bridge there are bound to be some explosions and casualties.

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the thing. You can’t use a circuit breaker if you’re powering your control console directly with “tuned plasma”.

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    • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Halon Injectors. That shit will put out anything...including people which is why it's banned.

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    • zaphod@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This. EPS conduit breakers haven’t been invented yet.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That would have serious implications on rock storage, though. Unfortunately, this is not an acceptable compromise.

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  • BaronVonBort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They tried storing the rocks in blue barrels once, and you saw where that got us.

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• FancyLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If those Utopia Planitia engineers could read, they’d be very upset.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “We purposely designed the tactical stations incorrectly. As a joke.”

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Health and safety gone mad, next you’ll be telling us no more storing rocks in the consoles, or that holodeck safety controls should be impossible to disengage by accident

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• evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And some emergency manual handles on the doors.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Circuit breakers were outlawed after the Butlerian Jihad

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now they just have super specialized weirdos who hold onto the circuits, having trained their minds to the point where they are able to control the electricity passing through their body.

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The 2268 NEC now requires Arc Fault Circuit Interruptors and dedicated circuits on all consoles. Starfleet would be annoyed, if the upgrades cost them anything.

  The 2272 code is supposed to require dedicated backup systems for shields so they don’t have to constantly “reroute power”

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