Star Trek Ship Construction

[Cthulhu]

Watching an episode of Next Generation tonight, I was reminded of something. Nearly every time they show an internal explosion aboard a starship, rocks fly out of the walls/consoles. Where do the rocks come from? Are the ships not fabricated of alloys and composites, but merely carved from stone? And why does the single piece of jagged metal always get embedded into a crucial (but disposable) character, or give them a lethal slash?

And how the hell are these things wired? A nacelle gets hit way in the back of the ship, and the weapons console explodes (with a shower of stone).

Cthulhu

[Silent Bob]

Its that logic Paramont uses that they hope you wont notice. (Like aliens we never heard of in 20+ years suddenly showing up in the prequel and ****ing up the earth bigtime.)

I -think- the 'rocks' are supposed to be chunks of the thick hull or the supports. Course, given that the bathroom on the original Enterprise is technically behind the main viewscreen....... :D

[Nobody]

Originally posted by Cthulhu@May 29 2003, 10:30 PM
Watching an episode of Next Generation tonight, I was reminded of something. Nearly every time they show an internal explosion aboard a starship, rocks fly out of the walls/consoles. Where do the rocks come from? Are the ships not fabricated of alloys and composites, but merely carved from stone? And why does the single piece of jagged metal always get embedded into a crucial (but disposable) character, or give them a lethal slash?

And how the hell are these things wired? A nacelle gets hit way in the back of the ship, and the weapons console explodes (with a shower of stone).

Cthulhu
what I like is the fact that a piece of 20th century technology is missing from every starship in the future...

I'm talking of course, about the fuse/circuit breaker... :D

[Silent Bob]

Shhh.....stop making sence.... Bergman dont understand that. :D

[MALCOLM XERXES]

Originally posted by Silent Bob@May 29 2003, 11:57 PM
Its that logic Paramont uses that they hope you wont notice. (Like aliens we never heard of in 20+ years suddenly showing up in the prequel and ****ing up the earth bigtime.)

SB,

I grok the fullness of the totality! :D

[StarBug]

Yeah - good point my fav is the 'faulty , dramatic breaking bolt company' that seems to have all the building contracts in the universe.... :P

as for the head behind the main view screen , that could cause some cheap toilet humor with someone important on the screen and someone pushing a klingon out in the back :lol: