There's at least a handful of times when the artificial gravity fails: in TUC (when Kronos One was attacked), and in the VOY episode "Prey"(?), when Species 8472 presumably causes some damage, as well as in episodes of ENT and DISCO. Relatively rare compared to the other malfunctions though. In RL of course it's a budget item if they portray that, but in-universe we could postulate that it's the kind of thing where even if the artificial gravity generators are damaged there aren't instantaneous effects.
Most unreliable parts of the Enterprise
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And none of those were on the Enterprise in TNG.
It may have failed more times than we know, but there's a secondary system/feature keeping things in place, like magnetic boots/bases for objects, in-seat invisible restraints rather than fabric belts, etc.
Isn't there only four ST: TNG episodes where the holodeck goes wonky?
In "The Big Goodbye" the Jarada's scan glitches it.
In "A Fistful of Datas" the attempt to interface Data with the Enterprise glitches it.
In "Ship in a Bottle" it's glitching on its own causing holo character's dominant hand to be flopped.
In "Homeward" energy bursts from Boraal II screw up the Enterprise's power systems which screws up the holodeck imaging processor.
The entire security division
Well, if Boeing is still building flying machines in the 24th Century...?
I'm going to go with communicators. Another one of those things that is impervious to all kinds of stellar phenomena and faster-than-light travel, but the minute there's a 'distortion' or 'they seem to be jamming the signal', then the ship has to revert to what...flashes in Morse code? It always struck me as odd that something nearly as fundamental as sensors or life support was such an easy takedown.
The most unreliable part of the ship might be the one system that could prevent a disaster.
Depends on the story or course and varies depending on the problem they're facing.
Depends on the story or course and varies depending on the problem they're facing.
I'd also add "holodeck doors" as anyone can waltz right on in during, for example, one of Barclay's goofy kinky jaunts, but I also like to think that the console that Riker and Geordi typed into have built-in fingerprint sensors as each of them had pressed more than one button before the doors had opened and both of them have high enough ranks to wordlessly override that scaredy door any day.
For me the bridge looks too much like a living room.
But that's not unreliable I guess...just like I don't expect a starship bridge to look like.
I’ve experienced many living rooms.
I’ve never been in one that looks like the TNG bridge.
Who do you hang out with?
Like I've always said, if the ship worked as per the TNG Tech manual or how it's supposed to, a lot of the stories wouldn't work on screen.... so the realities of the ship and story do not match.
And if they didn't beam the poo out and had proper pipes you could have a poo cascade somewhere on the ship.
I think you could add "Elementary Dear Data" to that list as what the computer did could be considered either a malfunction or glitch.
I stand corrected. Assuming they'd make it back to starbase, as they can do court martials and other court hearings on the ship and still have Geordi whip out the screwdriver and all... and the captain is said to be responsible for the actions of their crew... but that's a stretch and you're right, the full scene does reveal Picard's fear, but he also uses it as means to encourage Data to spill the beans. Still seems indirectly as a threat as well?
Good catch!
You know what could have been fun for an episode to have something like maybe a rat running around loose on the ship.
That might have worked on any of the versions of the Enterprise that Kirk was captain of. Or maybe even Voyager where actual food was cooked, as those ships had actual gallies.
That might have worked on any of the versions of the Enterprise that Kirk was captain of. Or maybe even Voyager where actual food was cooked, as those ships had actual gallies.
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They're Starfleet engineers, they should be able to do something constructive with that (e.g. build a Quantum Shitstream Drive out of it)
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