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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "Lost In Translation"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

They can’t shut down the dang refinery! The lever’s stuck and they’re out of WD-40!

I actually had the least problem with that. It’s entirely plausible that huge machines can’t just turned off in an instant. Even real life nuclear reactors need something like +12 hours even for an emergency shutdown. A city-sized space-refinery probably has so much momentum in it’s spinning parts that it is faster to just shoot that thing.