Emergency Force Fileds in "Nemesis"

[Gepard]

Now, according to the MSD, there's a vertical turboshaft that starts on Deck 8 and runs almost to the bottom of the ship. There's your "bottomless pit."

And the big, metal bridge bolted across the shaft is there because....?

 

[jamestyler]

Now, according to the MSD, there's a vertical turboshaft that starts on Deck 8 and runs almost to the bottom of the ship. There's your "bottomless pit."

And the big, metal bridge bolted across the shaft is there because....?

Thats the ships naughty step. If you disobey an order you've to sit in the shaft for one minute per year of your life and contemplate your dedication.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Now, according to the MSD, there's a vertical turboshaft that starts on Deck 8 and runs almost to the bottom of the ship. There's your "bottomless pit."

And the big, metal bridge bolted across the shaft is there because....?

Hell if I know. I've gone as far as I care to bail out Logan's crappy writing.

 

[Timo]

So this is where I step in...?

The very fact that the bridge is crudely bolted there, rather than gamma-welded or whatnot, might suggest it's a temporary feature installed there for repairs. The shaft itself would not see much use beyond being an oversized cable trunk, although some sort of ventilation role might also exist. Certainly there wouldn't be turbolifts traveling back and forth.

Howzzat?

As for skintight vs. bubble, I'd argue different shield settings against different weapons. All shields would be adjustable from skin to wery wery wide bubble, just like Kirk in "Mudd's Women" was able to extend the shield bubble around Mudd's ship while in "Errand of Mercy" the shields blocked torpedo hits just a few meters from the hull surface.

We certainly saw "modern" ships take skintight hits in many previous TV episodes, even if movie evidence is ambiguous. DS9 VFX artists almost never bothered to draw any shield bubbles - but sometimes they did, proving that the inconsistency was consistent and that it should be treated as a feature rather than a bug.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Now, according to the MSD, there's a vertical turboshaft that starts on Deck 8 and runs almost to the bottom of the ship. There's your "bottomless pit."

And the big, metal bridge bolted across the shaft is there because....?

Thats the ships naughty step. If you disobey an order you've to sit in the shaft for one minute per year of your life and contemplate your dedication.

LOL!! And you have to deal with the ship's Super Nanny!

 

[Gary7]

It sure looks to me like the hull was breached in Year Of Hell.

http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/4x09/yearofhellPT2_335.jpg

Funny... for just a moment, I thought I was looking at the Babylon 5 station through the hull.

 

[CoveTom]

It's a shame that they didn't let Braga do what he wanted with Year of Hell and make it a year long arc, where Voyager progressively becomes more and more crippled.

The two-parter was great, but if they had actually taken it out over the course of a season, and not made it a reset-button episode, that would have been something truly unique and daring for Voyager. It would have made it stand out from all the other Treks and made it clear that they weren't still comfortably in the Federation's backyard with unlimited resources.

And it was the oft-ridiculed Braga who was in favor of that, but who was overruled by the network brass. Such a shame Voyager was never allowed to take any risks.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

That would've been a cool risk to take.

 

[DWF]

That would've been a cool risk to take.

They did it for half a season on Enterprise though.

 

[CoveTom]

^ Unfortunately, by the time Enterprise got around to being willing to take risks, it was well past the point where "the franchise," as it existed at the time, could be saved. Not sure that was the case back in the middle of Voyager's run.

 

[kitsune]

Re: Emergency Force Fields in "Nemesis"

I don't understand where the force fields come from. Are there just force field emitters on every inch of the ship just in case a chunk of it gets blown off?

The TNG episode Brothers pretty much implied this, when Data makes his way to Transporter Room 3...

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Re: Emergency Force Fields in "Nemesis"

That's a lot of force fields...but it makes sense..

 

[Myasishchev]

Given what we know about the SIF, the whole ship is a forcefield. The tritanium's just there to keep people from freaking out about traveling inside a big transparent bubble.

And I thought the front of the bridge getting blown off in Nemesis was cool. Yeah, the movie sucked, but the space fight still rocked. You've gotta see those silver linings.