These ships all had inertia dampers, otherwise the crew would be paste during most maneuvers. Seatbelts would just cause a different kind of mess. And even if they didn’t, are you suggesting Picard’s grip is sufficient to combat those forces? Because he didn’t have a seat belt, either. Maybe it was the force of his presence that you think was going to keep him seated?
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
I suppose if they’d been in a more relaxed pose they would have flown farther?
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
And where are the seat belts?
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Whoosh.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
Is that the sound of the warp drive in space? It certainly isn’t the sound effect the explosions in space use.
If it wasn’t for artistic license, they could have gone with what happens when the inertial dampers fail in the spaceships in David Weber’s books, which is a more realistic outcome (assuming realism is what you’re looking for in a setting with warp drives and inertial dampers), but writing off the crews of ships that don’t matter to the storyline in a red paste probably wouldn’t go over well in a family drama. About as well as people sitting around in a pitched battle with the occasional hum or shudder.