Spoilers ST Strange New Worlds - StarShips & Technology Season 1 Discussion

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The rocks are always stupid. Always.

Yet, until VERY recently, we had rocks, wood, flame throwers.

I'm like WTF! They go crazier on effects that makes no sense.

Only VERY recently did we go back to smoke & sparks and leave it at that.

 

[Unicron]

The rocks are always stupid. Always.

The rocks are for the catapults, in case the futuristic weapons lose power.

 

[cooleddie74]

Ah. The Quantum trebuchet. I feel ya.

 

[NCC-73515]

Better than the Disco rhythmic synchro bridge flamethrowers

 

[fireproof78]

It's purely for dramatic effect. Equipment has to spark, short out and explode for the threat in a given scene to be conveyed. I'd love to think and hope that by at least the 22nd century the computer consoles aboard human spacecraft won't explode into a shower of hot sparks if a meteoroid so much as grazes the side of the ship but, hey, for 20th and 21st century entertainment it sure gets the point across even if it's silly.

Exactly. To quote Picard,, "Sometimes you have to bow to the absurd."

 

[dupersuper]

The rocks are for the catapults, in case the futuristic weapons lose power.

In Contagion when a frustrated Riker asked if it would be possible to find rocks to throw at the Romulan ship, the young officer he was venting to took him seriously and started replicating a supply of throwing rocks and storing them in an conveniently empty space above the bridge, a practice that caught on on other ships...

 

[Henoch]

Let's hope they're not the exploding rocks from Gamma Trianguli Six.

 

[danellis]

Regarding seat belts, I almost wonder if Starfleet did a study and discovered that personnel were just as much to suffer injuries with or without them. They may offer some protection in circumstances where the artificial gravity or inertia dampers were compromised, but otherwise personnel could suffer injuries from straining against the restraints themselves. The ideal restraint could be a total harness system in which personnel are completely locked into place in their seats with limited freedom of movement.

But I guess obligatory exploding consoles would still get them that way...

Does anyone on here know what real naval combat ships do?

dJE

 

[C.E. Evans]

Does anyone on here know what real naval combat ships do?

They don't fly in space at impulse or warp velocities.

 

[danellis]

They don't fly in space at impulse or warp velocities.

For the record, I meant regarding seatbelts.


dJE

 

[Ronald Held]

You can't as easily fall out of your seat or go flying being belted in.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

You can't as easily fall out of your seat or go flying being belted in.

That's a feature, not a bug.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Starship safety, brought to you by Microsoft.

 

[fireproof78]

How else will the audience know it's a dramatic hit?

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Flamethrower sconces on the walls, of course.

 

[cooleddie74]

Burn, baby, burn. DISCO Inferno.