Seatbelts
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Real world answer: yes, and all of the chairs should be bolted to the floor, too.
Hollywood answer: no, it makes for great action scenes when the crew are being thrown around the bridge and the chairs are tipping over.
Prepare ship for ludicrous speed!
Maybe yes. Maybe no.
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They appeared to at least have some sort of partial restraint in TMP. And Kirk did miss his old chair by the time of Star Trek V.
The trouble with restraints is that it gets harder to show just how much the ship is getting pounded by having the actors throw themselves across the room. The shaking during the wormhole worked, but they also did that in slow motion.
The trouble with restraints is that it gets harder to show just how much the ship is getting pounded by having the actors throw themselves across the room. The shaking during the wormhole worked, but they also did that in slow motion.
The Enterprise sprouts seatbelts in the animated episode "Once Upon a Planet" and the movie Into Darkness, both times when gravity systems failed. I guess they're only allowed under that circumstance, and not when they're all being blown to hell by enemy fire.
Bizarre 23rd century insurance reasons, perhaps...
Bizarre 23rd century insurance reasons, perhaps...
On Federation starships, not wearing seatbelts is a safety precaution, as it gives officers the chance to jump / be thrown clear from the ubiquitous Exploding Consoles of Death.
Definitely! Ever since 1973 when my father and I hydroplaned and "T-boned" another car during a violent thunderstorm. I suspect that in another quantum reality my "center of mass" was elevated enough to throw me through the windshield and kill me rather than into the "floor well" as actually happened.
If I ride with someone else, I buckle up even if the driver takes offense. I explain, "You may be a great driver, but you can never fully anticipate the carelessness of another."
Sincerely,
Bill
They don't have them on school buses.
Maybe they would be too antiquated, if this is a starship that accelerates to many times the speed of light in a few moments and everyone isn't paste on the back wall, then maybe seatbelts would be like having Scotty go out front with a crank to start the engines. Maybe.
Maybe they would be too antiquated, if this is a starship that accelerates to many times the speed of light in a few moments and everyone isn't paste on the back wall, then maybe seatbelts would be like having Scotty go out front with a crank to start the engines. Maybe.
One would think they would learn the hard way, though: several times, the reaction time of the crew has suffered from them being thrown off their consoles, and sometimes there are injuries. Why not avoid those with seatbelts, even if certain other accidents tend to be fatal?
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Or they could just, you know, put fuses and surge protectors into the consoles.
When TOS was made, I don't think most people wore seat belts in cars. I don't know if most cars came with seat belts.
The Excelsior had seatbelt for the transwarp thing...but I'm pretty sure the first thing Sulu made as master of this vessel was to kick out that shit.
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