DS9 Turbolifts

[Leathco]

I've always wondered about the lift that goes to ops, the one thats sort of open. How exactly would that work? The one in TNG that ended up malfunctioning and throwing Geordi all over the place, that was due to the inertial dampeners messing up in it, right? Wouldn't the dampeners bleed out in an open environment like that, or is there like a force field around the lift itself that allows people to walk through it?

 

[Tosk]

I'm not exactly sure what it is you're asking...are you implying that the inertial dampening system needs a door or wall to be contained within a certain area?

...Because that would not be the case, in my opinion.

 

[The_Baroness]

We have open lifts now...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm not exactly sure what it is you're asking...are you implying that the inertial dampening system needs a door or wall to be contained within a certain area?

...Because that would not be the case, in my opinion.

I think he's wondering if the lift has it's own dampeners and/or gravity, independent from the ship.

 

[Timo]

The very idea that LaForge can be thrown out of a lift sideways at the E-D bridge when the lift shaft at that point is purely vertical would suggest that the lifts indeed have their very own inertia environment that can be adjusted independently of the ship's overall inertial environment. The same probably goes for most sections of the ship, as gravity can fail even in such small subsections as Archer's shower stall...

Then again, gravity and inertia control seem to be dependent on centralized resources that can be knocked off or sabotaged locally, yet cause shipwide havoc. So we're probably dealing with a system that gets its "oomph" from a central location and can be centrally controlled, but also has local machinery that regulates how the "oomph" is distributed and utilized.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

There was the episode where Lwaxana Troi and Odo were stuck in a free-falling turbolift. But then that was sabotaged so it was possible any existing inertial dampener was disabled. But I thought generally they wouldn't freefall like that. (But this raises the question, falling toward what? What artificial gravity was there at the bottom of a shaft which would probably be at the very end of a pylon?)

 

[Timo]

If each deck has its separate gravity system, one might expect that these "leak" a bit of their downward pull into the turboshaft at each threshold. Enough to pull the lift down in "Disaster" and "The Forsaken" and "Crossfire" all.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tosk]

There was the episode where Lwaxana Troi and Odo were stuck in a free-falling turbolift. But then that was sabotaged so it was possible any existing inertial dampener was disabled. But I thought generally they wouldn't freefall like that. (But this raises the question, falling toward what? What artificial gravity was there at the bottom of a shaft which would probably be at the very end of a pylon?)

The lift was only stuck, not falling in that episode, if I recall correctly.

The falling lift was with Odo, Kira, and Shakaar...and that one was definitely sabotaaaged.

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

I sit corrected. By a Gamma Quadrant hunted species, no less! You're right. I remembered Odo being in a falling turbolift and turning his hands into those steel beams to bend the sides out to cause friction, etc. I got the people with him wrong.

 

[Neoshade]

the pylons arnt straight, dose the turbo lift follow the curve of uper pylons 1, 2, and 3?

 

[Tosk]

They are at the same angle as the deck when they arrive at the top, so I assume that they are kept 'upright' the whole time.

 

[Timo]

...Or at least they're at the same angle at the very top (the scene where Jake stargazes at the upper pylon), but they might follow the curve of the pylon between the top and the midlevels. That is, assuming there isn't much in the pylon that would be personnel-accessible anyway.

Certainly there's plenty of near-straight vertical shafting in the midlevels to allow for the sabotage scene of "Crossfire".

Timo Saloniemi

 

[reversepolarity]

I always find that lift a curiosity too, I can't help but wonder what would happen if someone who was new and didnt know there was a lift there happened to walk onto the seemingly innocent flat area without realising it's a lifts roof!