That’s what happens when your computer designers seem to have a microtape loose, and decide that connecting the multi-exawatt power system directly to all the powered systems is a good idea.
Prssumably the same people who build a malevolent AI that takes over the ship every few decades, or makes it so that starships explode if they bonk into anything hard enough.
Look, there’s a reason you can wire almost any heavy machinery into any random console or wall panel… When you run this much power to every station, exploding panels are gonna happen.
It’s either that, or we run our ships like Vulcans, and that’s just boring.
When I was young, my friend and I got evicted from our first apartment for having way too many wild parties. When we were moving, we tried to fix as much of the damage as we could because we were broke and afraid of being sued.
Before we patched a big hole in the drywall we filled it with empty beer cans and hilarious pornography. They ended up bulldozing that shithole building a few years later. I hope we made somebody laugh.
They could do it at the expense of fewer lives at least. I realize it’s Bridge Crew and they’ll come back, but do they really need to keep climbing the Black Mountain just to give the engineers some busywork?
And yet a touchscreen that doesn’t explode is still beyond all of their technology.
That’s what happens when your computer designers seem to have a microtape loose, and decide that connecting the multi-exawatt power system directly to all the powered systems is a good idea.
Prssumably the same people who build a malevolent AI that takes over the ship every few decades, or makes it so that starships explode if they bonk into anything hard enough.
Do you want explosion free screens, or screens you can sit on? You can’t have it both ways.
Look, there’s a reason you can wire almost any heavy machinery into any random console or wall panel… When you run this much power to every station, exploding panels are gonna happen.
It’s either that, or we run our ships like Vulcans, and that’s just boring.
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The consoles occasionally exploding into sparks or rocks is on purpose. It gives all the engineers that aren’t the chief engineer something to do.
Ah! An excuse to post my favorite GIF (again):
Man, between Lt. Pierce and the disgruntled workers apparent from your GIF, Utopia Planitia had some problems.
Related to your second link:
When I was young, my friend and I got evicted from our first apartment for having way too many wild parties. When we were moving, we tried to fix as much of the damage as we could because we were broke and afraid of being sued.
Before we patched a big hole in the drywall we filled it with empty beer cans and hilarious pornography. They ended up bulldozing that shithole building a few years later. I hope we made somebody laugh.
They could do it at the expense of fewer lives at least. I realize it’s Bridge Crew and they’ll come back, but do they really need to keep climbing the Black Mountain just to give the engineers some busywork?