Minimum required.... one.
If it's the right one.
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Minimum crew required
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I'll see your Janeway vid and raise you this picture (which is ultra-cool imho):
and, whoah, that's way bigger than intended... sorry mods.
Wow! I kind of want to get a nice print of this and have kate mulgrew sign itI'll see your Janeway vid and raise you this picture (which is ultra-cool imho):
and, whoah, that's way bigger than intended... sorry mods.
That AU Janeway needs a Big A$$ Gun.I'll see your Janeway vid and raise you this picture (which is ultra-cool imho):
and, whoah, that's way bigger than intended... sorry mods.
But the real Janeway is formidable even when unarmed and trapped behind a force field.
And bingo! we have an answer (or answers):
Only one crew member can pilot the ship, if it's essentially just ambling through space at a lower speed with no confrontations or complications and possibly without full functionality.
In "normal" circumstances (i.e. ones in which the ship might have to fire or otherwise defend itself, er, I mean the crew defends themselves) then a minimum of 100 or thereabouts.
In fact, I see no reason to preclude the possibility that a ship could do so without any crew, on auto-pilot, given the restrictions you give above (no confrontations or complications, at lower speed, etc.). We have self-driving vehicles today.
Personally wouldn't want to be on a rush-hour freeway in one.
Self driving cars will work perfectly once EVERY car is a self driving car. The issue will not be the automated car, but the human driver in the other car.
Me neither. 350 years from now, however, the technology behind it might have improved a bit
(in fact I think they will be entirely safe in 25 years or less).
Yeah, that way if they all self destruct simultaneously, then no dead humans to junk up the freeways.
Every day on my 45 minute drive to work I wish for the self driving cars
At least it's only 45 minutes. mine is and hour and 45 minimum, and thats with no train delays.
yikes
It's a pain, but I'm on a 4-day, compressed work week, which helps.
I read an article a decade or so ago where the author was running an experiment: armed with a breathalyzer, a big pile of booze, and a top-notch space shuttle simulator he was running the launch checklist over and over while getting progressively more drunk to see just how drunk you could be and still do it.
(A great quote from about midway through as he looked up his breathalyzer results, "euphoria is being replaced with disphoria. Roger that, not having fun anymore".)
Afterwards he talked with a guy from NASA who observed that the launch checklist he'd been running was only one page while the real one is 30. He said that the missing pages cover what to do if something goes wrong. "If nothing goes wrong, a drunk chimp could fly the shuttle."
"If nothing goes wrong" is the key. When everything is working we've seen a handful of people..or as few as 2 running things.
In the Trek universe, they have had 400 years of experience with space travel, 300 years of experience with warp travel. So in a sense, I would expect it to be more 'mundane' than airplane travel is in our world (as we only have slightly over 100 years of experience with that). On the other hand, their vessels are much, much larger than our shuttles. So perhaps we should compare it with sea travel, something we've also done for a long time and with large vessels. How much crew would a large oceangoing vessel need at minimum, given that it only has to get safely from A to B (and not maintain tactical readiness or any such thing), assuming perhaps some small complications that can be solved by that same minimal crew, but no unusual bad luck?
the technology will be key. In Trek you can give a voice command and the computer can do a lot of things so that does make it easer for less people to handle things. On a current ship everything is more manual so you need more hands.
Don't be sorry! It was worth it.I'll see your Janeway vid and raise you this picture (which is ultra-cool imho):
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One thing to keep in mind is natural phenomena.
On the oceans, hurricanes and such can move pretty quickly, and a ship usually can't outrun it. I don't think so, anyway.
In space, there are thousands of things that can occur, and I'm just talking natural phenomena.
Asteroids, comets, wormholes, supernova, ellipses (I think that's what it was called in "ONE SMALL STEP"), subspace rifts, temporal anomalies, Chaotic Space, and so many other things I couldn't fit it all in a single post.
No matter how automated a ship is, it will still require a crew. That was one of the biggest points in TOS's "THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER".
On the oceans, hurricanes and such can move pretty quickly, and a ship usually can't outrun it. I don't think so, anyway.
In space, there are thousands of things that can occur, and I'm just talking natural phenomena.
Asteroids, comets, wormholes, supernova, ellipses (I think that's what it was called in "ONE SMALL STEP"), subspace rifts, temporal anomalies, Chaotic Space, and so many other things I couldn't fit it all in a single post.
No matter how automated a ship is, it will still require a crew. That was one of the biggest points in TOS's "THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER".
I'll see your Janeway vid and raise you this picture (which is ultra-cool imho):
and, whoah, that's way bigger than intended... sorry mods.
This is so cool ! any chance that this story idea was ever explored in a book or comic ? MU Bounty Hunter Janeway would be a wonderful concept to explore
