• @ilinamorato
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    21 month ago

    Yeah, but they’re maneuvering at appreciable fractions of the speed of light when they travel at impulse, so there’s no way anyone survives if they’re all offline. They have to mean that the primaries are offline, or they’re offline in certain sections, or something like that.

    • Flying SquidM
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      11 month ago

      Well somehow those certain sections always include the bridge.

      • @ilinamorato
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        11 month ago

        Can’t possibly be the bridge as a whole. When I said “certain sections,” I meant, like, every third square centimeter or something. If the entire bridge inertial dampeners were completely offline, our heroic crew wouldn’t be jumping madly across the bridge, they’d be a thin paste of organic material on the wall.

        Actually, having individual sections fluctuating could explain some of the wilder dives Kirk & Co did during battle sequences, now that I think about it.