Warp core engineers: we need redundancies and safeguards here, here, and here
Bridge console engineers: don’t forget the high-voltage rail and the concussive feedback blasters
Chair engineers: fuck seatbelts wooooo
Also: this console doesn’t have enough rocks inside of it. And you call that a ceiling? I don’t see a single loose girder in there!
If the inertial dampers fail, wouldn’t the seat belt just cut you in half anyway?
Bridge console engineers: … oh wow look at this guys … liquid napalm is a great electrical conductor … we should use this amazing liquid to power these consoles
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The warp core was originally a space babble replacement for a boiler on a steam ship, since it was based on WW2 navy ships. On old steam ships literally almost everything ran directly on auxiliary steam. As a result of probably not revisiting this since the 60s: everything in trek runs directly on warp core plasma.
You mean WW 0? Even in WW1 ICE powered ships are commonplace.
WW2 Iowa class battleship had steam turbines
Huh. I stand corrected.
I discovered that while watching the movie Battleship lol
Not a total loss after all 😁
I mean, plus you get that epic burrito stealing scene.
WWNAM. I joke.
Circuit breakers don’t work for plasma conduits.
And it is crucial because of the [insert technobabble] that the consoles are powered by plasma.
Better contrast in a well lit environment
It would destroy all their terrible plots though.
Picard: “Shut down the holodeck!”
Data: “Holodeck controls are not responding”
Picard: “Pull the holodeck MCB!”
Data: “Holodeck systems shut down”Credits.
Discovery had actual god damn flamethrowers in the bridge walls. Missing circuit breakers are nothing compared to that horror.
Plasma circuits
Apollo 1. 100% oxygen atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong?
And seatbelts. When they get shot, the whole bridge (but not the whole ship? or there’d be dozens of casualties every time) goes flying. But not when the ship spins around in a tactical maneuver. Do the stabilizers just go out with every hit?
I’d guess the ag field can adjust for maneuvers, but not unexpected jolts from battle? And yeah why do we never hear about the shattered tanks in hydroponics, people falling into the warp core, and doctors getting stabbed by their own scalpels every time a laser hits the ship?
Maybe if they didn’t pack everything full of rocks…
No engineer would build a system like that purposely, so they must be required to have high-energy plasma in them in order to work.
My headcanon is that the high energy plasma in the consoles sends signals FTL, using something like subspace but in the conduit. This is necessary because the ship is moving at superliminal speeds, and regular electronics won’t work due to the subspace field.
Exploding panels is actually how they stop overpopulation.
Those damn fertile red shirts. They never stop multiplying.
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Those magic black rocks they’re filled with are very volatile.
