Okay having watched a couple seasons of Voyager in the last week or so, I've noticed something... Why don't they have any seat belts? (or harnesses, etc.) Everything's going well until they get hit by unexpected phaser/photon/spacial charges/borg weapons/space debris, and then everyone gets thrown out of their seat, and no one can press the "fire" button for at least the 40 seconds it takes to get from halfway across the room where they were just thrown. I know they are supposed to have inertial dampening fields but from what I can see a lot of problems(read "dramatic tension") in a battle could be fixed by a simple 20th century invention.
Seat belts.
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OMG I have thought this EVERY TIME they bump around and get thrown all over the bridge. Thank you for saying this! lol.
I am sure there is a reason they do not, but I think it every time they get knocked around on the bridge.
I am sure there is a reason they do not, but I think it every time they get knocked around on the bridge.
No starship has seatbelts. The Enterprise D's saucer was crash landing for what felt like 5 minutes of film time and everyone is gripping on to it like grim death but no seat belts.
Maybe in the future they've evolved past seatbelts?
Maybe in the future they've evolved past seatbelts?
It's because the medicine is so good in the future. It's gone to their heads. Seat belts are for primitives who can't get their broken bones fixed with some magic tech.
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Any sufficiently advanced medical technology creates a condition indistinguishable from stupidity...
I've always wondered what Ralph Nader would have to say about this.
He would have told them that the windows were too small.
It must be a lost and forgotten technology, like the concept of rebooting a computer when it's frozen up, which was rediscovered by Geordi in Next Gen's "Contagion"
Seatbelts are soooo 4 centuries ago.
OH look it's R. Star!
Inertial dampeners!
Plus if your console is about to explode in your face you don't want to have to unbuckle first.
Plus if your console is about to explode in your face you don't want to have to unbuckle first.
That's a good point. Before Starfleets starts installing seatbelts in its ships, it should probably invest in some better circuitry. Some breakers and well-placed surge protectors would go a long way, also.
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