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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its funny, with Star Wars, they put the technology in place but the writers never try to explain it. They don't go into explanations of how light sabres can freeze laser beams, there was never an explanation of hyper matter reactors or a loving description of how the Death Star works.
Instead its the fans that try to fill in the technical gaps.
In Star Trek, the writers trying to explain the technology. Or write themselves into a corner and try to tech their way out.
I've always thought it was weird that in every episode of next generation they were literally modifying systems on the fly, pushing energy backwards through a conduit or funneling different energy through the scanner array. Or improving warp core performance by dumping something into the warp drive.
And they would do it in 8 minutes on the fly with like no safety or testing.
It would be equivalent to an ensign on an aircraft carrier telling a Captain that he can boost the efficiency of the ANS Spy radar by pumping plutonium through the solid state chips.
Just once, I would have liked to have seen one of the techno solutions in Star Trek completely failing.
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Feels like a good opportunity to post this:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1339324053803319296
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My favourite Star Trek fact is that because the Enterprise bridge has its turbolift to the SIDE, but that turbolift is directly BEHIND the bridge on exterior of the ship, the bridge crew are canonically sitting at a 36 degree angle from the direction they're actually heading.
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ETA: The thread on how this was determined is a great example of what's been discussed in the last page or so.