@Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston The - mentality didn't go anywhere and we are always watching the newest ship with the newest technology putting it through the most difficult conditions. Teething problems are to be expected in such situation.
No, it's lazy, unimaginative writers who can't think of anything other than "something's broken".
I read some — call it fan fiction. It was written as a journal article looking at the Galaxy class design. The class had a design lifetime of a hundred years and six were built, but within fifteen years three of them had already been lost (including the Enterprise-D), and one was taken back in for a complete rebuild. In all three losses, the proximate cause was a failure of the warp core, but poor crew reactions were also a major contributor as they struggled with systems that were too complex for them to cope with.
Maybe if someone actually told them that in some situations the failure of a single sensor can cause the ship to nosedive, they could actually manage those systems better. Or maybe at least put in redundant sensors.