• StametsOPM
      10•2 days ago

      So glad we didn’t get this ugly garbage heap

      • Flying SquidM
        8•2 days ago

        Ugly and, while I think it’s pretty stupid to put the bridge sticking up out of the very center of the saucer section like a bullseye on the world’s biggest dart board, imagine an Olympic class ship getting attacked. Any frontal assault would kill half the crew.

        • VindictiveJudgeEnglish
          4•2 days ago

          The Covenant had the right idea, burying the bridge in the middle of the ship, surrounded by armor.

          • bach37strad
            1•10 hours ago

            Defiant was like that too wasn’t it?

  • @DarkCloud
    9•2 days ago

    I hope Captain Beverly Crusher was okay… And that none of her crew became sexy ghosts.

  • MentalEdge
    8•2 days ago

    Good thing the inertial dampeners held. Those are usually the first to go.

    • Rhaedas
      6•2 days ago

      If they put the resilience and redundancy of inertial dampeners into everything else Starfleet, any encounters with hostiles would be over in seconds, even the first Borg. It’s as if Starfleet ships are built with dice rolls and a stat sheet, and they dump everything into keeping the gravity working with all other stats below par.

      • VindictiveJudgeEnglish
        2•2 days ago

        I wouldn’t be overly surprised if grav-plating is a passive effect that doesn’t require power.

        • Rhaedas
          3•2 days ago

          Canon is that all deck plating has embedded various graviton generators. This is separate from the inertial dampening and structural integrity fields. There’s no single canon idea on how they work though (for obvious reasons) so there’s examples of a single generator that can be disabled, or many miniature ones through that are independent. Maybe that design is the one seen where a room or deck can be customized to a different pull than others. The holodecks probably use a much more advanced version along with other tractor beams to create the many forces needed for simulations.

          But the best grav generator won’t save you if the inertial dampeners fail to dampen at a crucial point.