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I always laugh at how little surveillance and security systems they have compared to us modern day too.
Like, there is zero fucking way the ship AI wouldn’t know exactly where everyone is on the military ship at all times and recognize if anyone is doing something funny, or if there’s someone extra on board, someone missing.
So many little star trek conundrums would’ve been solved in the first 5 minutes with the right security system that detected and isolated the threat before it had a chance to even do damage. It is well within their capabilities, it could summon force fields wherever the fuck it wants, fabricate the right material to cancel any issues. It could summon force fields around someone as soon as they pull out a phaser in an unexpected non hostile situation, ffs
It does ruin a lot of episodes and plots if you take these technologies to their logical end. It’s a lot of work to write “hard” scifi and you kinda have to guess at how a lot of stuff will be used, think of the most common sense utilities it would be awesome for, and if you don’t want that in your story… Fabricate a good reason ahead of time why it doesn’t work that well. Oh no Zero Point Energy can’t be manufactured at small scale so of course you only see it in large ships, small ships can’t warp, faster than light comm isnt possible on a handheld device, this shield doesn’t work for some rare energy weapons, etc
Like. That one episode where the orions snuck into a diplomacy thingy disguised as an andorians. I bet a simple airport backscatter scanner would have noticed the dangly bits were odd.
But even if it’s not hard sci, a coherent universe is better than one that flops around. Like when you’re doing world building a moment needs to be taken to consider what your stereotypical DnD party would do with it.
I mean, my party would absolutely weaponize the shit out of self sealing stem bolts.
Edit- imagine dr McCoy being like “sir, the computer flagged something in your embarkation scan…. Why don’t you come on down and we’ll deal with those janky balls”
(The transporters disassemble and reassemble stuff at the molecular level, surely there’s a way to check if they’re andorian, right?!)
I always laugh at how little surveillance and security systems they have compared to us modern day too.
Like, there is zero fucking way the ship AI wouldn’t know exactly where everyone is on the military ship at all times and recognize if anyone is doing something funny, or if there’s someone extra on board, someone missing.
So many little star trek conundrums would’ve been solved in the first 5 minutes with the right security system that detected and isolated the threat before it had a chance to even do damage. It is well within their capabilities, it could summon force fields wherever the fuck it wants, fabricate the right material to cancel any issues. It could summon force fields around someone as soon as they pull out a phaser in an unexpected non hostile situation, ffs
It does ruin a lot of episodes and plots if you take these technologies to their logical end. It’s a lot of work to write “hard” scifi and you kinda have to guess at how a lot of stuff will be used, think of the most common sense utilities it would be awesome for, and if you don’t want that in your story… Fabricate a good reason ahead of time why it doesn’t work that well. Oh no Zero Point Energy can’t be manufactured at small scale so of course you only see it in large ships, small ships can’t warp, faster than light comm isnt possible on a handheld device, this shield doesn’t work for some rare energy weapons, etc
Right?
Like. That one episode where the orions snuck into a diplomacy thingy disguised as an andorians. I bet a simple airport backscatter scanner would have noticed the dangly bits were odd.
But even if it’s not hard sci, a coherent universe is better than one that flops around. Like when you’re doing world building a moment needs to be taken to consider what your stereotypical DnD party would do with it.
I mean, my party would absolutely weaponize the shit out of self sealing stem bolts.
You mean Orion disguised as an Andorian from “Journey to Babel.”
Yeah that one.
Edit- imagine dr McCoy being like “sir, the computer flagged something in your embarkation scan…. Why don’t you come on down and we’ll deal with those janky balls”
(The transporters disassemble and reassemble stuff at the molecular level, surely there’s a way to check if they’re andorian, right?!)