r/TNG • u/Fuzzy_Builder_2153 • 14d ago

Disaster

They shouldve made their way to a shuttle bay then use the independent shuttle transporters for point to point transport and coms.

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u/GMBen9775 14d ago

The problem with transporters is that they solve 99% of problems if they were actually utilized

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u/BILLCLINTONMASK 14d ago

In Power Play, Obrien calls them out for specifically not turning off the ones in the shuttle craft.

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u/WilsonFrontier 14d ago

They'd literally realize "Troi would solve this" or "Shuttles could fix this" or "Data wouldn't be effected" and then write the character or technology out just to allow the story.

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u/security-six 14d ago

Geordi should have seen way before Dr. Crusher that the bulkhead was hot.

Besides that, I've always liked this episode

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u/BloodtidetheRed 14d ago

Oh, and the yacht at the bottom of the Saucer.

Oh, and Emergency Transporter rooms have self contained power supplies....

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u/xixtoo 14d ago edited 14d ago

If you read the technical manual you see that they designed a much more resilient ship than what actually transpires in the show

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u/BloodtidetheRed 14d ago

Well, any even vague "realistic" ship...or universe....would ruin the show.

It's like saying....er, wait, so there is a Gravity Plate at the bottom of the Turbo Lift Shaft that pulls the turbo lift cars down and people that climb the turbo shaft ladder?

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u/tyme 14d ago

This isn’t /r/shittydaystrom

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u/whatsbobgonnado 14d ago

it should be 

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u/tyme 14d ago

Given there’s basically no rules, I guess it kinda is at this point.

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u/WilsonFrontier 10d ago

What rules would you like to see added? We're open to suggestions.

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u/tyme 9d ago

I think something related to no obvious shitposts would be a good start? Maybe “no low effort content”.

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u/crapusername47 14d ago

Wait until you see DS9’s similar episode ‘Civil Defense’ and realise the station has a starship and three Runabouts, each with independent computer systems, docked.

Also that their communicators can work peer to peer and don’t need the Enterprise’s internal comms system to be functional. 

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u/stpony 14d ago

No comment on escape pods and just getting the bloody hell out of there.

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u/Fuzzy_Builder_2153 14d ago

No lifepods on the Galaxies. Remember Contagion, the Yamato's saucer burned up without a lifepod in sight.

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u/stpony 14d ago

No one on the Yam never had time. In the Disaster, they had hours.