How would you design the Ultimate (Brig / Jail Cells / Security Cells / etc.)?

[FederationHistorian]

Make it a holosuite. So that if they perform a prison break from their holding cell, they have no idea that they haven’t really escaped.

Also, give all prisoners an ankle bracelet that automatically transports them back to their holding cell if they do in fact successfully break out of the holding cell and walk out of the brig. The ankle bracelet vaporizes them if they jailbreak the lock. The last part may be inhumane for Starfleet, but would work for other species.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How about a virtual prison, like in DS9's "Hard Time" or that one Outer Limits episode?

You can't escape from a prison that does not, physically, exist.

 

[at Quark's]

How about a virtual prison, like in DS9's "Hard Time" or that one Outer Limits episode?

You can't escape from a prison that does not, physically, exist.

Crafting such a design probably wouldn't be done in Starfleet service, though. After all, the 'Hard Time' prison is essentially messing with someone's mind and memories and I think Starfleet would have issues with that.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Crafting such a design probably wouldn't be done in Starfleet service, though. After all, the 'Hard Time' prison is essentially messing with someone's mind and memories and I think Starfleet would have issues with that.

Are you sure about that? Have you seen what they did to former-Fleet Captain Garth on Elba II??!

 

[Shik]

I mean, if you're imprisoning someone, you want to prevent escape, right? Real hard to do that when you ain't got a body.

What I'm saying is: transporter buffer recharge cycle-style imprisonment.

Alternately: Kelvan-style foam D20 stacking on a shelf.

 

[dupersuper]

How about a virtual prison, like in DS9's "Hard Time" or that one Outer Limits episode?

You can't escape from a prison that does not, physically, exist.

Riker managed...

 

[theblitz]

There is also the option that appears in Stargate SG-1.
They switch the gravity so that the back wall becomes the floor.

Assuming that the wall is tall/long enough it should be no problem.

 

[Forbin]

Good idea. I would at least have grav plating on the wall opposite the door and change the gravity orientation when the cell is occupied. The cell door then becomes part of the prisoner's ceiling.

There was a Goa'uld jail cell on Stargate SG-1 like that - it was 25 feet long, but with the gravity shifted 90°, so the prisoner was, to his perspective, at the bottom of a 25 foot deep well.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Think programmable matter would be really useful for this. Simply morph the doors into inpenetrable walls.

 

[DonIago]

^^Still problematic if the power fails though.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

^^Still problematic if the power fails though.

Depends on if structures created by it, keep their form in that case or not. If they do, it's possible to phaser the wall open from the outside. In the case of an evacuation.

If not, you're right, that would be a problem.

 

[BK613]

There was a Goa'uld jail cell on Stargate SG-1 like that - it was 25 feet long, but with the gravity shifted 90°, so the prisoner was, to his perspective, at the bottom of a 25 foot deep well.

Really?

 

[DonIago]

Depends on if structures created by it, keep their form in that case or not. If they do, it's possible to phaser the wall open from the outside. In the case of an evacuation.

If not, you're right, that would be a problem.

Sorry, I did two carets to indicate I was responding to the post above yours...though I guess it also applies to yours.

 

[Angry Fanboy]

Yeah completely sealed module with the only access being via transporter. Whole module ejects like an escape pod if necessary. Job done.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

A interesting region to make a Prison facility would be in "The Void" in the Delta quadrant.

You can use the "Giant Region" or the "Toroidal Spatial Anomaly".

Have your Space Station Prison be located near the center of it, cloaked so that regular sensors would have a hard time finding it, then you'll have a place that is going to be very troublesome to find by those who don't know it's already existing location.

 

[publiusr]

As in DS9 and The Terratin Incident…put it under glass…Kandor style.