Manual over-ride? HUH?

[Gepard]

The wires in between get cut?

That sort of thing happens all the time in the real world. Scuttling a warship at sea has always been a tedious and difficult task, and one that more often fails than not...

Of course, real warships aren't powered by lots of antimatter. Considering how easily containment fails or almost fails on Starfleet ships, it seems like it should be a lot easier to blow one of the things up on purpose.

 

[StolenThunder]

In Insurrection, when Riker used the joystick to helm the Enterprise.

Oh crap. Back to my therapist.

 

[erastus25]

In Insurrection, when Riker used the joystick to helm the Enterprise.

It took a long time for me to surpress that memory..THANKS ALOT!!!

Rob

Ugh. Ditto. So...much...hate.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

In Insurrection, when Riker used the joystick to helm the Enterprise.

I guess if that movie was remastered Riker would have a Wii controller instead.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They should use the Voice Activated Doors from Airplane II.

Linky

 

[Timo]

Of course, real warships aren't powered by lots of antimatter.

Then again, real warships just barely float on water. One would think it the simplest thing in the world to make them stop doing that...

In practice, it takes a lot of time to let in water by opening the bottom valves, as 20th century warships were equipped to do. And it is nigh-impossible to hack scuttling holes into the hull of a well-built wooden warship from the preceding centuries. OTOH, 20th century ships blew up every other day by accident, as they had things like ammunition, gunpowder or coal dust aboard. A lot of engineering and procedural effort was made to prevent that from happening; so in the end, it would not have been possible to scuttle a ship with a deliberate coal dust explosion, or even to create a good magazine explosion without hours of preparation.

Similarly, 23rd-24th century engineers would make it very difficult for anybody to cause an onboard antimatter explosion. The folks designing self-destruct systems would be fighting against those engineers, then, and possibly losing.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[David cgc]

That's my explanation for the Nemesis thing. Ironically, I realized it when I saw two posts by Trekker4747 next to each other, one where he complained about this, and the other where he complained about ships always going up in enormous antimatter explosions even though there were supposed to be safeguards to prevent that. I figure that the damage done by the ramming must have triggered the warp-core failsafes to prevent an accidental breach, with the side-effect of preventing a deliberate breach, as well.

 

[Timo]

...Or then the collision triggered the failsafes of LaForge, who decided he was not going to blow himself up that day.

Timo Saloniemi