I’m always bugged more by individual moments than bigger things. So while T’Pol might be wearing an old fun center carpet as a uniform, and the temporal Cold War is both overly complex and excruciatingly boring neither of those things bothers me more than the following.

In season one, there is an episode titled ‘Unexpected’. In this episode Tripp becomes space pregnant from an alien space mama. During his pregnancy he is framed as becoming irrationally overconcerned about the safety of very minor or unlikely hazards.

At one point, he is in engineering and complains that if you hold onto the handrail of the elevator while it moves, your fingers will be sliced off against the scaffolding since there is no gap.

A crew member brushes him off by just saying, essentially, “Lol skill issue, just don’t hold the handguard.”

Again, Tripp is the one being framed as irrational in this discussion. Because he has a problem with a handguard that slices your fingers off.

Space hormones or not, he’s right that it’s a terrible design.

  • Izzy
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    181 year ago

    I’ve seen similar problems on actual escalators. It might not slice your fingers off, but if your arm was stretched out it would snap your arm off at least. But then again I have a phobia of elevators and escalators so it is particularly apparently to me. I blame that Resident Evil movie when the person got their head cut off trying to exit a stalled elevator.

    • Endorkend
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      111 year ago

      The scariest thing is when escalators malfunction.

      At least with an elevator you’ll either drop to your death or the brakes kick in making you just stuck for a few hours.

      But an escalator, that’s a cheese grater powered by a motor strong enough to lift dozens of people up a flight of stairs.

      • @bandwidthcrisis
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        101 year ago

        Why do we even bother with them?

        They’re just elevators with extra steps.

        • conciselyverbose
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          81 year ago

          They’re have more throughput. If you’re somewhere high enough traffic they’re pretty clearly the only way to serve it.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          If I had to take a guess, its because elevators have to start and stop a lot - whereas escalators operate contiguously. So in an often (well maybe not so much now) crowded place like a mall, you could be waiting a bit if you needed to change floors.

          • Izzy
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            71 year ago

            Guys, it is a pun. 😅

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I thought you were going to segue into the Mitch Hedberg “the escalator is now stairs, sorry for the convenience” joke.

    • Doubletwist
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      81 year ago

      I damn near had my head taken off one time when I was a kid. I was leaned over the side looking down as the escalator went up. My mother grabbed me and yanked me back just moments before my head got stuck in the scissor trap caused by the bottom of the down escalator intersecting with the up escalator.

      A couple years later I noticed the started putting plexiglass a foot or two in front of that part. I wonder how many kids didn’t get their head pulled back in time before they started doing that.

    • Goathound
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      31 year ago

      Eugh, I still get nervous walking in/out of elevators because of that movie.