Something that just occurred to me recently.
If you want episodes like "Heart of Glory" or "Contagion", we see characters like Picard and Worf squinting at explosions on the bridge viewscreen. That sort of implies that the screen is a bright enough light source in its own right to literally convey the brightness you'd experience from, say looking at an explosion through a window (and as opposed to watching it on a TV screen).
That doesn't seem to be the case all the time. Nobody's shutting their eyes and looking away when they show a solar flare, for instance, in "Relics" or the star in "Tin Man". Is there some sort of "dimmer" that they put on when they anticipate getting close to a star, but don't keep on all the time?
What do you think?
If you want episodes like "Heart of Glory" or "Contagion", we see characters like Picard and Worf squinting at explosions on the bridge viewscreen. That sort of implies that the screen is a bright enough light source in its own right to literally convey the brightness you'd experience from, say looking at an explosion through a window (and as opposed to watching it on a TV screen).
That doesn't seem to be the case all the time. Nobody's shutting their eyes and looking away when they show a solar flare, for instance, in "Relics" or the star in "Tin Man". Is there some sort of "dimmer" that they put on when they anticipate getting close to a star, but don't keep on all the time?
What do you think?