I'll go Sulu, I do have a rapier.
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I'll go Sulu, I do have a rapier.
They never quite seem to get the ship's autodestruct sequence right, aside from maybe TOS.
Blowing up the ship should require the captain and first officer, or at least a command level officer. No one person should be able to enable it, regardless of ship size.
However, defusing the autodestruct should only require the captain's say-so. Nuking a ship and its whole crew is a pretty drastic act, and one in which the two officers need to be in total agreement. NOT nuking the ship, not so much.
Just my two slips of latinum.
Blowing up the ship should require the captain and first officer, or at least a command level officer. No one person should be able to enable it, regardless of ship size.
However, defusing the autodestruct should only require the captain's say-so. Nuking a ship and its whole crew is a pretty drastic act, and one in which the two officers need to be in total agreement. NOT nuking the ship, not so much.
Just my two slips of latinum.
I'd rather hit them with my rapier wit.
What if an invading force managed to fake the Captain's voice and identification but not the first officer's?
What if the first officer was dead?
Well, IMO if someone is dead or absent then the computer should assume that his responsibilities fall automatically on the person next in command, so that would be the second officer.
Friends.
Yeah...
I thought we're not supposed to have them.
Ooops.
Ah, yes. The Search for Spock, when the auto-destruct sequence was activated by a Rear Admiral from Starfleet Command, the Captain of Engineering for the USS Excelsior, and the former Executive Officer of the USS Reliant, all of whom had stolen the vessel from Spacedock, and none were currently assigned to the ship.
Why is it that Bashir, O'Brien, et al. go through all the risky rigmarole of robbing the casino when they could just use a pair of period-specific machine guns and shoot the two thugs? As a precaution, they could tell Vic to barricade himself in his room for the duration of the operation so he wouldn't get hit by any stray bullets. I mean they never said that the safeties were off, did they, so that the only ones who could get hurt are the holograms.
Yeah. I had that happen to me a couple times.
On a similar note, my MiL sometimes sends us a link about a news related to my school and I'm like no shit, I've been getting work emails about that daily for a week now (no, I actually didn't say that to her, of course) The missus says she gets similar links from her, about Starbucks when her manager had told her (along with her coworkers) weeks earlier. The MiL must think we live under a rock at work.
I am sure you don't need any clearance to provoke a core breach.... In the Voyager simulation of the episode Pathfinder, Barcley's superior does that simply by giving an order to stop the coolant or something... So I wonder why they even bother with all that when any clown in engineering can do it without meaning it!!!
Which according to Star Trek 2009 could either get him crushed or sent intact into another time, depending on... the black hole's mood I guess.
Harkins, for some reason (rank? position in Starfleet?) had the authority to disengage the primary coolant system, which will cause a warp core breach (presumably because the lack of coolant somewhere will increase temperatures enough to rupture some of the antimatter containment). I will presume that not every clown can disengage the primary coolant system, and that it was something only reserved for chief engineers (or higher, as Commander Harkins may have been) and Captains and such, presumably to be done in case of emergency or technical reasons (moving to a secondary, with the warp drive offline).
A warp core breach might be preventable still, with quick actions, after the coolant system comes offline, and depending on how bad it is breached, part of the ship might survive. On the Enterprise (unlike Voyager), most of it might survive, as it would knock out the nacelles and secondary hull, but the saucer could conceivably clear itself away, even accidentally.
An auto-destruct probably ensures destruction of the saucer and the secondary hull much more thoroughly than a simple warp core breach (although, yes, a breach is probably utilized).
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