07-09-2022, 11:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2022, 03:15 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I wonder, does having multiple transporter rooms mean having multiple transporters? Or are all the rooms and platforms just client stations for a central transporter "server?" Do starships have completely independent redundant systems, or do they just rely on redundant nodes in one centralized system? Kirk's Enterprise had an emergency control room, but I don't recall ever seeing any other auxiliary stations, and while the ship has two warp nacelles, they both run off one warp core.
The second TOS pilot mentioned "lifeboats" wrt the USS Valiant 100 years earlier, so there should have been something like that on Kirk's Enterprise, though they were never used or even mentioned.
In the TNG episode you're thinking of, Picard and the children were trapped in a stuck turbolift after the ship became disabled. In the TOS episode, Kirk was the last person on the ship, but he never left. He tricked Spock into coming back up by saying that once the last person left they had no way to return, so they definitely did not have any means of beaming up by remote control. That seems pretty brain-dead, especially after the second movie when we learned that you can actually take remote control of a starship and order it to lower its shields (and speaking of brain-dead, how dumb is it that every starship seems to have the remote control code for every other starship stored in its data banks????)
As I recall, the first ID-coded entry badges were in the late 70s/early 80s, and at the time there was a lot of grumbly speculation about whether employers would become "Big Brother" and track employees' movements in the workplace, time their bathroom breaks, etc. It was definitely a tech that original Trek didn't foresee, but TNG embraced it whole-heartedly. I wonder if the Enterprise-D computer ever responded to a location request with "Ensign Smith is in Ensign Jones' bedroom."
NASA's concepts in the 60s for travel beyond the moon were based on the idea of space-only ships being assembled at space stations in Earth orbit, and Trek just ran with that (I think that is still the NASA concept, btw).
The second TOS pilot mentioned "lifeboats" wrt the USS Valiant 100 years earlier, so there should have been something like that on Kirk's Enterprise, though they were never used or even mentioned.
In the TNG episode you're thinking of, Picard and the children were trapped in a stuck turbolift after the ship became disabled. In the TOS episode, Kirk was the last person on the ship, but he never left. He tricked Spock into coming back up by saying that once the last person left they had no way to return, so they definitely did not have any means of beaming up by remote control. That seems pretty brain-dead, especially after the second movie when we learned that you can actually take remote control of a starship and order it to lower its shields (and speaking of brain-dead, how dumb is it that every starship seems to have the remote control code for every other starship stored in its data banks????)
As I recall, the first ID-coded entry badges were in the late 70s/early 80s, and at the time there was a lot of grumbly speculation about whether employers would become "Big Brother" and track employees' movements in the workplace, time their bathroom breaks, etc. It was definitely a tech that original Trek didn't foresee, but TNG embraced it whole-heartedly. I wonder if the Enterprise-D computer ever responded to a location request with "Ensign Smith is in Ensign Jones' bedroom."
NASA's concepts in the 60s for travel beyond the moon were based on the idea of space-only ships being assembled at space stations in Earth orbit, and Trek just ran with that (I think that is still the NASA concept, btw).