I love what they did in the third season of Discovery, the design, the technology... It all makes sense. After nine hundred years anything from the 23rd century would become an antique.
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How is this practical?Practical. Efficient. Ungainly.
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The problem when you go from a disk to a sphere is that you multiply the number of decks while reducing considerably each of them in size, so they'll be more demand for turbo lifts. It's also unpractical in case of an evacuation or an attack.
Turbolifts are overrated anachronisms favored by writers bewitched by high-speed elevators most often found in tony skyscrapers. Besides, with variable gravity being within the command of even 22nd century science, why not have a series of shafts placed in convenient tween-spaces? Sure, you lose some of the plot-advancing exposition and clever character pieces (Gesundheit to you, too, Linus), but I can’t see any engineering reason not to forgo the cumbersome lifts.
As for evacuation … in deep space?
As safety features go, that makes as much sense as the passenger handle bars installed on the dashboards of first-generation Corvettes.
Can you unpack that a little? Are you talking about Star Wars chasms with some kind of personal gravity controls?
Nothing so fancy. Something like this:
Since all ships from Enterprise on (and arguably DY 100s) have artificial gravity, it stands to reason that it should be adjustable. I seem to recall “variable gravity area” warnings on TNG. Simple.
As for personal controls, why not? Perscan devices, communicators, what can hold a transtator. Even a key fob.
That looks like a ladder.Nothing so fancy. Something like this:
Since all ships from Enterprise on (and arguably DY 100s) have artificial gravity, it stands to reason that it should be adjustable. I seem to recall “variable gravity area” warnings on TNG. Simple.
As for personal controls, why not? Perscan devices, communicators, what can hold a transtator. Even a key fob.
It seems a bit wasteful, space-wise. A lift can take several people at once. Or maybe I'm just not getting it.
Well not the ladder…that would be silly. It’s not a bunk bed. I meant the tube.That looks like a ladder.
It seems a bit wasteful, space-wise. A lift can take several people at once. Or maybe I'm just not getting it.
As for space, it’s less capacious than a turbolift shaft and no need for cars.
Actually, the ladders on TOS can have 3 people climbing right to each other at the same time. "IN A MIRROR, DARKLY, PART II" on ENTERPRISE illustrates this while mirror Archer is hunting the Gorn.
Plus, look at the ladder itself. It has rungs on three sides, meaning each side can have climbers at once.
One thing turbolifts would be necessary for is ferrying stretchers for injured people. Or space to carry large pieces of equipment.
Plus, look at the ladder itself. It has rungs on three sides, meaning each side can have climbers at once.
One thing turbolifts would be necessary for is ferrying stretchers for injured people. Or space to carry large pieces of equipment.
So did "The Doomsday Machine." It's very much an original Trek design point.
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Very true.
The crew take the ladders when the ship's power fails (as on the Constellation in The Doomsday Machine), or if you just want a little exercise or taking a short cut as Kirk is seen doing in The Amok Time, or if you you want to sneak around the ship as in The Changeling or The Way to Eden. On a practical note, three people on the tri-ladder seems well designed for quick evacuation between decks. (Though, I would prefer normal stairs during an evacuation...)
Especially if some people are wounded. Evacuating them with a ladder is near impossible, while with stairs it's difficult but still feasible.
You'd think that in a period in which artificial gravity is ubiquitous, personal antigravs would also be ridiculously feasible. Just grab one and coast. Or, should I say, just strap one on! 
TAS gave the crew force field-generating belts. You'd think antigrav technology would have reached a more miniaturized level by around 2269.
Picard is completely fantastic.
DISCO should have stayed in the TOS era.
DISCO should have stayed in the TOS era.
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