Comment on Things you feel Star Trek handle poorly? (In general, political, technical, etc, share your opinion)
MimicJar@lemmy.world 6 days agoI know the show often shows life support issues as lack of oxygen, but wouldn’t temperature be a issue much sooner? Maybe not hours, but days?
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Honestly, the whole thermodynamics of the Starship Enterprise are an open question. Real spaceships need to be festooned with radiator panels. The Federation ships just deal with waste heat by venting it…somewhere? So it has to have some thermal management system that is beyond our understanding. How that would affect how long a passively cooling starship would take to cool down, I cannot say.