(Let's ignore the fact that she'd impact at ~158km/h and surely die)
The turbolift was moving in the same direction she was, wasn't it? From a relative standpoint she didn't hit it going very fast.
S03 E13: Why does USS Discovery inside looks like Borg cube?
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The turbolift was moving in the same direction she was, wasn't it? From a relative standpoint she didn't hit it going very fast.
Because it looks "cool". Absolutely doesn't make any sense, but looks cool
Yes. That's the point. The rule of cool. Been that way for decades now.Because it looks "cool". Absolutely doesn't make any sense, but looks cool
I always find fans funny, that literally get mad over something as small as an Elevator. lol. Yet the Holodeck is the most improbable of all inventions.
Hmh? It may be technologically challenging at the moment, but it's a thing engineers would want to build and businessmen to sell. It's a thing we are inevitably going to have eventually, unless Armageddon comes within the next half a century or so.
In contrast, we might never have warp drive, since there's little demand for stardrives. Or a transporter, because there are plenty of other ways to go places. The technicalities blocking the way to those devices might forever go unchallenged. But we absolutely and desperately need our holoporn. And will get it, soon enough.
Timo Saloniemi
In contrast, we might never have warp drive, since there's little demand for stardrives. Or a transporter, because there are plenty of other ways to go places. The technicalities blocking the way to those devices might forever go unchallenged. But we absolutely and desperately need our holoporn. And will get it, soon enough.
Timo Saloniemi
Suspension of disbelief. Holodeck allows for it, the fun house turbolifts totally blew it
I don't agree, as that scene was awesome. But you know, ok.
I disagree we'll ever have anything like a holodeck. Why bother when we'll have brain-computer interfaces and can just live in a virtual world which feels just as real but doesn't require anywhere near as much technology and energy to run?
If they wanted that scene, they should have found some excuse to have it on the Veridian.
This is something that might apply to turbolift tech at a rather fundamental level. Often enough, the procedure is this: enter, state destination, suffer an awkward wait with optional dialogue, arrive, exit. So we might think these things only travel where and when asked. But there are plenty of cases where no destination is stated, and other reasons* to think that when not being overridden with "taxi" commands, the lifts actually serve as "buses", running on schedules and routes.
Lack of user commands would be no excuse for ceasing to follow the schedule, then. And once we accept that, it becomes a given tat running the routes would also be important for cab logistics, keeping them things where they are going to be needed even when no current need has been established.
Timo Saloniemi
* Say, the numbers or other symbols at turbolift stations work much better as route numbers than, say, deck numbers... That is, there would be contradictions if they were deck numbers, or identifiers for individual lift stations, but a route number is basically impossible to contradict.
I'm in the middle-it wasn't awesome but it didn't break my suspension of disbelief. Star Trek has broken suspension of disbelief in far worse ways for this to break it.
Well Holodecks do nicely avoid the "stuck in your head while your body wastes away" problem.
Because that would suck and be very unappealing to be stuck in my own head.
I agree. But I kind of wish we would have seen how these upgrades worked before now so it wouldn't have been quite so jarring.
Maybe. But, seeing it before would take away some of the danger to my mind.
Also despite my issues with holodecks, transporters and replicators they do serve a bit of a purpose where as things like the funhouse or warp core slide scenes could have just as easily been done better without any effect on the story
I have way more issues with the holodeck. Way more.
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