...why weren't the chairs bolted to the deck? One of the reasons that the Captain rarely went flying across the bridge was that he had the only seat attached to the deck. Why did everyone else have to risk life and limb at their duty stations?
never mind the lack of seatbelts...?
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Hmmm...maybe because it allows them to move around their workstation better? I don;t know...maybe it was something they eventually realized, but didn't want to change. Also, I'm sure the crew would have gone flying during attacks regardless of the chairs being bolted down or not. lol
They could be turned on and off and just weren't activated at all times. 
The butt magnets are so important that Starfleet has a Rear Admiral to maintain quality here.
They had little seatbelt devices in TMP - I liked the logic of the equipment in that movie - the belt life monitors (adopted obliquely in XI), the wrist communicators etc. We also saw that 23rd century equipment could go wrong without the intervention of all-powerful beings.
I agree with the super-magnet theory. The only time the chairs fell over was when an incredibly powerful force containing anti-magnet properties hit the ship. Starship designers can't think of everything that might happen in unchartered space. The re-design for TMP improved safety by adding the hip huggers, or whatever you call them.
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Pure and simple, the powers that be not at least having the chairs bolted down was in the top ten stupid thing in TOS.
It just screamed 'TV set' !!!!
As if any spacecraft or naval vessel would have chairs just sitting there waiting to tip over at the drop of a hat.
It just screamed 'TV set' !!!!
As if any spacecraft or naval vessel would have chairs just sitting there waiting to tip over at the drop of a hat.
Think of Voyager. Tom Paris had to do a lot of moving from one end of the Helm to the other, thus making it more effective to have office-type chairs instead of solid chairs. Same applys here.
Tom's chair was on a track that allowed him to slide from end of the console to the next (why was his console so large anyway?). All of it was bolted to the deck.
I thought that was the case. It looked like an office chair roller type thing to me at first.
My folks used to watch the Irwin Allen TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrell -- er, that's ... of the Sea -- every week when I was a kid. I only saw minutes of it each time while passing through the living room, but I swear I always caught the submarine tipping one way or another and the cast staggering.
It's a television show, they change sets frequently so in order to utilize what they were working with, they didn't need to bolt anything down, they weren't on an actual starship to worry about that sort of thing, lol
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