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For added aviation realism, the shuttle seats should have been worn and stained and covered by fake sheepskin seat covers.
by queuebert 3y ago
For added aviation realism, the shuttle seats should have been worn and stained and covered by fake sheepskin seat covers.
- hef19898 3y agoAt least the set designers had style! Some nice designs there, for sure! If only someine would have thought of, I don't know, seat belts...
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoIn a world where "inertial dampeners" exist and making invisible forcefields is pedestrian, physical seatbelts aren't terribly important. If inertial dampeners outright fail in a spacecraft designed for them you can expect to be reduced to a souplike homogenate whether you're wearing a seatbelt or not.
- hef19898 3y agoCourse, given the accelerations in Star Trek you are red smudge without them anyway. But then there is all the flowing around around the bridge, engineering, everytime a ship is hit... Maybe a seatbelt wouod have helped! Or some space space suits, proper footware for away missions. Alongside clothing...
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoStarfleet is the Federation's solution to the existence of type-A personalities, giving them something exciting and challenging to do in order to prevent them from screwing up the socialist utopia for everyone else. All Starfleet technology is optimized not for efficiency, but for excitement; giving Starfleet personnel brushes with danger, interesting puzzles to solve, and opportunities to improvise and collaborate. Wouldn't surprise me if the inertial dampeners on the bridge are specifically tuned to toss people around a bit during battles to make them more immersive and raise the stakes. Why else would computer terminals spontaneously explode when the shields take a hit?
- maweaver 3y agoPeople get tossed out of their seats every other episode in star trek. I'm sure I've seen multiple "medical team to the bridge"s due to someone getting knocked loose by the ship shaking and hitting their head on a console.
- ghaff 3y agoThat and in the future we'll apparently forget everything we ever learned about electrical codes and the proper way to build things so they don't spark and catch fire at the slightest provocation.
- ourmandave 3y agoAt least they installed handrails in engineering, even if it was just so they had something to go flying over when the ship tilted. Unlike the OSHA be damned Death Star.
- RedShift1 3y agoAnd use rocks for padding steel frames.
- verve_rat 3y agoI actually saw a reasonable explanation for this once: battleshort[1]. That is, sometimes equipment has its fuses bypassed because under battle conditions it is better to have the equipment working in a dangerous state, than not working at all. So when the ship goes to red alert all the major systems are automatically put in battleshort mode. So a couple of ensigns die rather then the weapons stop working because a fuse blew. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort
- hef19898 3y agoThat is a very old-school approach so. But it could be an in-uniberse explanation. Overall so, Federation, and Star Trek equipment in general, just seems so incredibly unsafe. Very easy to jury-rigg repairs and modify it so, especially the shield generators!
- panax 3y agoWhat about these seat belts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysvyXDebsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysvyXDebsM
- hef19898 3y agoAh, so the Enterprise-E got some safety upgrades as well!
- _moof 3y agoIndeed, with paint flaking off the instrument panels and label-maker labels stuck everywhere!