We need a serious discussion about power inequality on the Enterprise.
We need a serious discussion about power inequality on the Enterprise.
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Tbh I never really liked that the captain has to tell the crew to do these things. You would think that a experienced crew would know what to do in certain situations.
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But this is how naval ships, including submarines (which the Enterprise is modeled after), work. Captains give orders, crew follows them.
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Not really. In the US navy (for instance), crew takes the correct action pretty much automatically unless specifically ordered not to do so.
If ships really worked the way they do in Star Trek we would have very few ships still floating. And it's not just ships - all forms of human organizing utterly depends on the people at the bottom doing the actual work making the real decisions on the fly. It's the only way anything about it becomes efficient at all - despite what the capitalists and their cronies in the media wants everyone to believe.
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In the second movie they literally had the Vulcan lady recite the existence of protocol regarding shield usage in certain situations, and one can assume it was specifically written so that the people operating the shields do not have to wait for one guy to resolve his "feels" about a situation before taking action to preserve the safety of the ship and crew.
This is your brain on centralized power, I guess - but it's nothing I didn't witness myself in the corporate world.
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The needs of the many systems for power out weight the needs of the few systems for power
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If you revert polarity of the shield, what does it do?
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It keeps shit in instead of out!
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*reverse, perhaps?
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It returns the polarity to it's default configuration.
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lolololololol
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"0.1% of our ship's systems are using more than half of all newly-generated power. The greed of Stellar Cartography knows no bounds."
Well you have to account for Riker's "dating" programs running on the Holodeck at all times due to his excessive privilege as an unelected official of the Enterprise. He gets away with it because he deemed it a critical life support system. That alone counts for half of the energy usage of life support.
All those fires on the bridge every time they get hit use up a lot of oxygen.
It’s called life support and not survive support though. Big difference between conserving as much energy as possible vs being able to freely do what you want without thought of concern.
It is also funny how they never shut down the artificial gravity
I'm guessing the replicators recycling the air and water are part of life support. Apollo 13 used pee bottles, a box of foam and some duct tape.