Is the bridge at a funny angle?

23 decks was from Gene's breakdown in TMoST (and then made famous in Franz Joseph Schnaubelt's deck plans). I guess he and Jeffries didn't compare enough notes.

 

It's only a model...

 

And here I thought it was a paper moon!

 

[*Chuckles in Pally Boy*]

 

Funny. But too many syllables.

 

Director: Okay, in this scene, the Enterprise comes to an abrupt stop so Nichelle, you fall out of your chair 144 degrees behind you to your left. Leonard, you fall out of your chair 108 degrees behind you to your left. Bill, George and Walter, you guys fall forward 36 degrees to your right. Have you all got that?

Robert

 

To add to my previous post, here's a thread for ya.

"Does the bridge crew fall out of their chairs at a funny angle?"

Robert

 

As a general rule, with some exceptions, the falling direction is opposite the camera tilt.

 

The inertial damping field would also be strained at a funny angle.

 

The question of which way the actors move gets complicated by which way the jolt is coming from. Not everything is going to be precisely port or starboard.

 

You know, I was thinking about writing a technobabble paper on how TOS seats were safer than TMP lock down chairs, in that the act of falling out of the chairs gives the dampener systems more time to react…with injuries to extremities only—-where the rigid TMP seats broke ribs and left lots of flail chest victims.

The best scenario? Padded seats and carpets… curved surfaces…but try to stay standing and just go with it.

TNG in other words.

 

Didn't the TMP chairs only hold the upper legs in place? I always found that very odd XD

 

Perhaps they also generate a personal forcefield that's invisible to the naked eye?

 

not unlike seatbelts or many old buses.

Which I haven’t seen in years, admittedly.

 

It's not anything I've thought of in ages, but when did shoulder straps become prevalent in cars in the US and elsewhere?

The lap restraints were one of those "Hey, why didn't we think of this before?" measures introduced in TMP that were then never thought of again. (I thought Saavik used them in the Kobayashi Maru, but I may be mistaken) Until Nemesis came along like no one had ever tried anything like it.

Of course, all of those other bridges faced the front of the ship.

 

Per Wikipedia:
Shoulder harnesses of this separate or semi-separate type were installed in conjunction with lap belts in the outboard front seating positions of many vehicles in the North American market starting at the inception of the shoulder belt requirement of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 on 1 January 1968.

Saavik did not use them in the Kobayashi Maru.

 

The origins are in use for aircraft. For cars it goes back to 1950 California. The lap belt. The 3 point/shoulder belt was patented in 1955. Saab was the first to make seat belts standard in 1958. Volvo pioneered the modern 3 point retractable seatbelt and made it standard on their cars in 1959. They received a US Patent for it. I don't know when seat belts became standard equipment in US cars. I just know that by 1978 front 3 point belts were standard and back lap belts. Back 3 point belts came about 10 years later. So when TWOK came out the standard was front 3 point belts, rear lap belts.