10-07-2022, 08:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2022, 08:34 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Star Trek has always been unrealistic about what happens on the bridge during emergencies. Everything we see on the screen is drama for the ground based audience.
Even back in the 60s, there wouldn't have been a lot of high voltage lines going to a ship's bridge, and with artificial gravity nobody should be getting hurled out of their chairs. Projecting today's tech forward, 300 years from now all the connections to the bridge should be either low voltage for the lights and computers and fiber optics for data.
What would the bridge really look like in a ship crippling emergency? A windowless customer service call center during a blackout. A bunch of people sitting in the dark except for some battery powered emergency lights and no sounds except for the beeping from some power failure alerts as everything else switches to backup batteries.
Even back in the 60s, there wouldn't have been a lot of high voltage lines going to a ship's bridge, and with artificial gravity nobody should be getting hurled out of their chairs. Projecting today's tech forward, 300 years from now all the connections to the bridge should be either low voltage for the lights and computers and fiber optics for data.
What would the bridge really look like in a ship crippling emergency? A windowless customer service call center during a blackout. A bunch of people sitting in the dark except for some battery powered emergency lights and no sounds except for the beeping from some power failure alerts as everything else switches to backup batteries.