The less we think about some Trek tech the better. 
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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I wonder if someone let rip an eggy woofter with the Life Support Belt turned on if they'd be trapped with the stench, like someone in a conventional spacesuit, or would it be quickly vented out.
Exactly.
Fixed it for youThe less we think about all Trek tech the better.
Belts are generous in that respect: it's clear that neither Captain Kirk nor Batman needs one to keep his pants up, so the audience understands there are awesome functionalities there instead. Whatever those might be... need not be revealed all at once. Or, like, ever. But whenever we see our flesh-and-blood heroes act like superheroes, we can always say the belt did it.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
In "The Practical Joker", Kirk wears one for protection when the Enterprise's bridge disco ball of phaser death tries to stop him altering the ship's course.
I think that was in "Beyond the Farthest Star", i believe that epiosde also had the belts protecting Scotty from being smooshed by a big hatch in Engineering.
Of course there must be a force field to keep the atmosphere contained.
They saw his Enterprise on a wall in Snoop Dogg's mansion and declared it canon.Funny, I get an email from Star Trek dot com, with an Enterprise graphic at the top.
It isn't the original from TOS, it isn't the Discovery version, it is the Gabe Koerner version from years ago.
Doesn't look anymore aggressive to me that the Discovery version.
The problem with both the DSC and the Gabe Koerner Enterprises is that there’s too much change just for the sake of change. All that was ever needed to ‘modernize’ the TOS Enterprise was to use the exact same design with more surface detail, like how they used the exact same design for the Klingon battle cruiser in TMP but with more detail.
Yes!
some elements needed to be updated, specifically the pylons needed to be thickened.
Why?
At least the hull font on his is the right font for the Enterprise in this time period. Little things can make a big difference.
It really doesn't appear like this, even discounting the multiple errors in drawing or not drawing the belts on the characters.
At no point does Kirk or Spock wearing the belt appear to protect them from the pain of those green beams (not death - the entity explicitly doesn't want the crew dead). And at no point does them not wearing it appear to worsen their situation. Kirk just stiffens his upper lip whenever the disco ball fires at him, and endures the punishment, belt or no belt.
The heroes are supposedly only wearing the belts because their opponent has shut down the life support systems within the ship. Yes, the enemy in turn wants Kirk to remove the "static shield" from the nav console, but that was something Spock rigged without involving the belts at all.
The only thing unclear there is why Kirk at one point chooses to remove his belt and slap it onto the nav console - is it a gesture of surrender, a call for parley? It does not seem to affect the creature's ability to access the console one way or another. It also doesn't seem to affect the creature's ability to inflict pain with the beams. But it does engulf Kirk and the console in a layer of amber when the creature fires the last time, when Kirk is leaning on the console. Perhaps it did offer some feeble protection after all, and Kirk cleverly first pretended to surrender by removing the belt, but then made sure the belt would be there to protect him and the all-important manual override? Except we see no protecting happening, save for the seemingly impotent glow...
Now there's the bit where stepping into a time machine and suggesting a last-minute rewrite would do wonders. The concept of the episode is top-notch, and an excellent start to TAS. Just fine-tune this struggle on the bridge, draw the couple of missing appearances of the belt and clarify the intent of the belt removal action.
...And then do the same with DSC, with the crew of the Shenzhou donning their belts when the ship gets Swiss-cheesed, and the incarcerated Burnham failing to get hers...
Timo Saloniemi
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