The real question is how can they can build on this flame thrower experience. A strobe light perhaps? Maybe a smoke machine? Colored sparks? Watching a couple episodes of Power Rangers might provide the right inspiration.
The next “Trek Tech” topic will be “New Ways to show how dangerous the situation is on the bridge”. We have: - Exploding consoles - Various booms and straining sounds - Rocks in ceiling - Gravity loss - Flame throwers What is missing? - Knives shoot out of the wall at crew - Forget rocks, actual meteor type punctures (credit to Expanse) - Cetacean Ops floods the bridge etc.
A golden idol that you have to judge the mass of using a bag of sand to access the helm. Otherwise there's a huge perfectly spherical stone behind the doors where the turboshaft used to be.
"Welcome to Discovery, home of the flame-grilled red shirt burger. Can I -- HARD TO PORT! -- excuse me. Can I take your order?"
I really don't care. Star Trek has always been ridiculous with rocks shooting out of consoles in the shows. People harp on the weirdest things.
You know what's even weirder? Going to the effort to tell people they're fools for wasting their effort talking about something.
Is rocks from the ceiling a new figure of speech around here? Swear I’ve never heard that one before and it’s come up a bunch in this thread. And, do ppl mean real rocks? Or just debris, which I get. I miss a lot I never notice till reading here, so if actual rocks have come tumbling down, I wouldn’t be surprised I missed em.
- SNAKES ON THE BRIDGE: venomous snakes pour out of ceiling panels. - Programmable matter malfunctions, become fists that punch crew from the consoles. - Blizzards, tornadoes, lightning: weather controls malfunction. Seriously though, the bridge flamethrowers make perfect sense. It's merely that programmable matter is the galaxies most flammable substance. That's why you can't make the whole ship out of it, the wrong phaser hit and the whole thing will suddenly turn into fire.
Explanation and a video showing the subject in action. https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-the-star-trek-bridges-filled-with-rocks.482689/
I’ll be darned. Rocks fall out of the ceiling. I think I’ve been “here” 14 years and never heard of this before.
Inconsolable consoles touch back! They've had it getting touched all the time, now they form hands and fingers to touch you!