And seatbelts for consoles. People go flying every time they get hit or run over a space whale.
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Neato@kbin.social â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
There was an anime I once saw, I canât 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.
Neato@kbin.social â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
dejected_warp_core@startrek.website â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Detmer absolutely needed a seatbelt and airbag, and she was piloting the damn ship. Also, Discoveryâs consoles keep ejecting rocks and flames every time the inertial dampeners fail, and thereâs literally nothing to hold on to at most workstations.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
shittiest inertial dampeners in the galaxy
FlatFootFox@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Cathode Ray Dude did a video a while back about the real world equivalent of âBypassing the relays!â 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.
âYouTuber talks at a camera for half an hour about something he found at the thrift storeâ is a well worn trope at this point, but CRD is a really good storyteller. Itâs 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 âbattle shortsâ.
Infynis@midwest.social â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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
Stamets@startrek.website â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well when youâre re-routing warp plasma to the bridge there are bound to be some explosions and casualties.
mkwt@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
This is the thing. You canât use a circuit breaker if youâre powering your control console directly with âtuned plasmaâ.
QuinceDaPence@kbin.social â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Halon Injectors. That shit will put out anything...including people which is why it's banned.
zaphod@feddit.de â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
This. EPS conduit breakers havenât been invented yet.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
That would have serious implications on rock storage, though. Unfortunately, this is not an acceptable compromise.
BaronVonBort@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
They tried storing the rocks in blue barrels once, and you saw where that got us.
FancyLad@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
If those Utopia Planitia engineers could read, theyâd be very upset.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
âWe purposely designed the tactical stations incorrectly. As a joke.â
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Health and safety gone mad, next youâll be telling us no more storing rocks in the consoles, or that holodeck safety controls should be impossible to disengage by accident
evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
And some emergency manual handles on the doors.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Circuit breakers were outlawed after the Butlerian Jihad
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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 donât have to constantly âreroute powerâ
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I mean, yeah. Thereâs test footage somewhere of pre-TOS space battles and itâs 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.