10-07-2022, 08:10 AM
I had a Thunderbird once that decided to stall in the middle of a snowstorm, while I was on my way to work. The way it acted, I first thought that the battery fizzled. Turned out it was the electrical system. Nothing worked without it. When Dehner and Mitchell begin to recover from their encounter with the field, Dehner states she was hit by something like an electrical charge. Later on, Mitchell acts like a human battery, discharging lightning at will. So all of this talk about the engines being burned out threw me. I know special effects were not at their peak at the time of the pilot, but I really thought it was a little tacky to just spill something on the console and set it on fire, and then act like the console was on fire. I'm not so sure the console fire would even occur in a state of the art starship, but this was an unknown source of power and a resulting fire is not out of the realm of possibility. It was a little on the cheesy side. It's not like great fires hadn't been set previously, but it was probably out of the budget.
Just a word on the fire, though, and something I hadn't thought of. If this electronics fire had spread throughout the ship, it would make it a deathtrap, wouldn't it? And these consoles, they seem to have a flaw where they can easily be set on fire. Lazarus easily caused a fire in The Alternative Factor simply by changing the plugs around.
Just a word on the fire, though, and something I hadn't thought of. If this electronics fire had spread throughout the ship, it would make it a deathtrap, wouldn't it? And these consoles, they seem to have a flaw where they can easily be set on fire. Lazarus easily caused a fire in The Alternative Factor simply by changing the plugs around.
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