Decon chamber sucked
- Thread starter TEH BABA
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Yeah, why didn't they just irradiate the crew? Like sterilizing food?
Oh, wait...
The decon chamber was a good idea, IMHO, but the execution could've been much better. The gel didn't cover everywhere if crew members had to rub it on each other... but, yes, those scenes were meant to serve a different purpose.
It might be more believable if the chamber worked more like the "Mystic Tan" spry-tan booths at your local tanning salon.
Oh, wait...
The decon chamber was a good idea, IMHO, but the execution could've been much better. The gel didn't cover everywhere if crew members had to rub it on each other... but, yes, those scenes were meant to serve a different purpose.
It might be more believable if the chamber worked more like the "Mystic Tan" spry-tan booths at your local tanning salon.
Not to mention the decon chambers where nowhere near the location where they'd be useful. You'd want to attach them directly to the airlocks and shuttlebay so that you don't bring contanimants all over the ship. You come out of your shuttle or the airlock into the decon chamber, throw your uniform in the uniform chute, where it goes to undergo intense decontamination, then go through a decon shower.
As it is in the show, I'm surprised the crew didn't all get infected en masse by a deadly virus/bacterium/spore/whatever.
As it is in the show, I'm surprised the crew didn't all get infected en masse by a deadly virus/bacterium/spore/whatever.
Yeah, that was one of the issues I had with it.
With the understanding that I don't want my comments to derail the discussion into a debate over continuity/canon/fanon, whatever ....
Looking at the number of times alien substances, spores, etc. failed to show up in scanners, sensors, etc. on TOS, I don't understand why no one who was infected ever got past Phlox's gadgets and into the ship's population.
I also don't recall ever seeing aliens being scanned/deconned before being welcomed aboard -- usually by the captain, first officer and chief engineer lined up at the airlock with no precautions whatsoever.
But that's where the chamber was, as far as we can tell.
That is, it separated the rest of the ship from the main means of entry from an alien environment, namely the shuttlebay. Since the transporter had only recently been cleared for personnel use, the designers of the ship probably couldn't have fathomed that it, too, might one day need a decon chamber of its own. And they might have had a hard time comprehending that the airlocks, intended to liaison with fellow Starfleet vessels and facilities, might one day pose a contamination hazard, too.
Timo Saloniemi
Captain X
Rear Admiral
That's actually what I've done in my Foundations series. And no transporter, so no need for a decon chamber there.
I am about as big an ENT fan as you can be, and even I always thought the Decon chamber made no sense at all. Real life decon chambers utilize high powered spray jets with vigorous scrubbing, shampooing, nail bed scraping, etc and are by all reports extremely unpleasant to be put through. The sensual, blue light, rub-down chamber we saw in ENT was just an embarrassment, IMHO, and was a shameless ploy to show Jolene undressed. They definitely could have come up with something better.
Trip undressed.
The idea of a decon chamber makes sense
You come aboard, you are scanned
If the scan reflects something dangerous, you are sent there
If not, you go through the other door to the rest of the ship
Its made rather clear that altho its in the ship, it can be completely isolated from it
You come aboard, you are scanned
If the scan reflects something dangerous, you are sent there
If not, you go through the other door to the rest of the ship
Its made rather clear that altho its in the ship, it can be completely isolated from it
Dikon chambar wuz teh sexee!
The decon scenes were as far from sexy as it gets and, as far as Jolene Blalock is concerned, that wig that they made her wear and her Goodyear boobs pretty much scotched her sex appeal most of the time(she was kinda hot in IAMD, though--bare midriff, min-skirt, the hair she should have had all along). The guy who tore ANIS a new one over at The Agony Booth pretty much sums up the singular Bragavian idiocy of the chamber, Ms. Blalocks's over-sold sexulaity vis-a-vis the much hotter (and healthier fleshed and--apparently--naturally endowed) Ms. Park and the wig thing.
But whatever...
But whatever...
Captain X
Rear Admiral
I've never understood the negative reaction to Jolene Blalock's appearance. Grace Park is definitely a looker, but for my Jolene Blalock is the most beautiful woman alive, and breast size has nothing to do with it. And she's hardly skin and bone, she just has a wiry build from growing up surfing. I also have no problem with women having short hair. In fact, I tend to prefer it.
It's not the size, it's the composition (I prefer breasts of fatty tissue rather than silicone and saline) and as for the hair, I just watched Annie Lennox in the "Missionary Man" video and she was scorching: it's not the shortness of the hairstyle but the style iself. Blalock's wig was just awful, like the awful wig that Jennifer Lien had to wear as Kes: pixie mental patient.
But your mileage obviously varies.
But your mileage obviously varies.
