Star Trek Makes No Sense, Part II
Maybe All That Hardware Is For Making Coleslaw
Sometimes the little hand-held items in the elevators make them go. Sometimes they make them stop. Sometimes they override RedJack who is trying to kill people. When Spock is taking the captive female Romulan commander from the bridge down to deck 3 --- I'm guessing they're numbered from the top down, so that's three decks, at the very most a trip of 50 or 60 feet --- they have an extended conversation and forty-one little light bars went by.
"Strike that last entry from the log," says Kirk. Spock reverses a white toggle switch and the terminal makes a chugging noise. [Mudd's Women].
Spock has a round, spidery, psychadelic-looking display high up on his console. It never does anything except rotate, and he never looks at it.
He also has a black box protruding below it. Sometimes it has acoustic grill cloth on it. Sometimes it has little red and yellow lights. He never looks at it, either.
He has a little pyramidal viewer that he does use. All he every says, though, is "Energy of a form never before encountered." Maybe that's all it says down there. If he's never encountered it before, how does he know it's energy?
The computer voice has a background of little chattering machine-type noises. Apparently the computer itself is sitting in a room full of sewing machines.
"Is the computer working?" asks Kirk. Now remember, he's talking about a computer that oversees every last little detail of the workings of a ship capable of travelling faster than light, for years on end, with a crew of several hundred people. Spock reverses two white toggle switches on his console. There is no output of any sort, whether visual or audible, and Spock doesn't wait for any. "The computer is in perfect operating condition," says Spock.
Sulu has an array of at least thirty by thirty lights on his console. Not one of them is labelled. They're not buttons, but he pushes them anyway. He also has a goose-neck viewer that apparently acts as a sighting device for the ship's weapons systems. It seems to take several minutes to unfold and extend into position --- during emergencies. (23rd-century weapons apparently have to be aimed by eyeball.)
"Do you still measure time in hours and minutes?" asks Abraham Lincoln. "We can convert," says Kirk. In another episode: shows Sulu's board. There are bubble meters --- yes, bubble meters --- labelled HH, MM and SS. Maybe they changed the hardware for the convenience of other dead Presidents.
The ship makes a faint roaring noise as it moves through space. ... Space doesn't conduct sound.
Every alien race knows how to operate the Transporter, even though the procedure changes with each use. Sometimes you slide the three little bars up. Sometimes you slide them up, then down. Sometimes you slide them up, then cross-circuit to B, then slide them down, then cross-circuit to A, then ...
There's a chicken soup dispenser in the transporter room. People must have to spend a lot of time in there. Maybe using the transporter gives you a cold.
Sometimes the little hand-held items in the elevators make them go. Sometimes they make them stop. Sometimes they override RedJack who is trying to kill people. When Spock is taking the captive female Romulan commander from the bridge down to deck 3 --- I'm guessing they're numbered from the top down, so that's three decks, at the very most a trip of 50 or 60 feet --- they have an extended conversation and forty-one little light bars went by.
"Strike that last entry from the log," says Kirk. Spock reverses a white toggle switch and the terminal makes a chugging noise. [Mudd's Women].
Spock has a round, spidery, psychadelic-looking display high up on his console. It never does anything except rotate, and he never looks at it.
He also has a black box protruding below it. Sometimes it has acoustic grill cloth on it. Sometimes it has little red and yellow lights. He never looks at it, either.
He has a little pyramidal viewer that he does use. All he every says, though, is "Energy of a form never before encountered." Maybe that's all it says down there. If he's never encountered it before, how does he know it's energy?
The computer voice has a background of little chattering machine-type noises. Apparently the computer itself is sitting in a room full of sewing machines.
"Is the computer working?" asks Kirk. Now remember, he's talking about a computer that oversees every last little detail of the workings of a ship capable of travelling faster than light, for years on end, with a crew of several hundred people. Spock reverses two white toggle switches on his console. There is no output of any sort, whether visual or audible, and Spock doesn't wait for any. "The computer is in perfect operating condition," says Spock.
Sulu has an array of at least thirty by thirty lights on his console. Not one of them is labelled. They're not buttons, but he pushes them anyway. He also has a goose-neck viewer that apparently acts as a sighting device for the ship's weapons systems. It seems to take several minutes to unfold and extend into position --- during emergencies. (23rd-century weapons apparently have to be aimed by eyeball.)
"Do you still measure time in hours and minutes?" asks Abraham Lincoln. "We can convert," says Kirk. In another episode: shows Sulu's board. There are bubble meters --- yes, bubble meters --- labelled HH, MM and SS. Maybe they changed the hardware for the convenience of other dead Presidents.
The ship makes a faint roaring noise as it moves through space. ... Space doesn't conduct sound.
Every alien race knows how to operate the Transporter, even though the procedure changes with each use. Sometimes you slide the three little bars up. Sometimes you slide them up, then down. Sometimes you slide them up, then cross-circuit to B, then slide them down, then cross-circuit to A, then ...
There's a chicken soup dispenser in the transporter room. People must have to spend a lot of time in there. Maybe using the transporter gives you a cold.
posted by DunedainRanger at 1:59 a.m.
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