I mean, yeah. There’s test footage somewhere that I once saw of pre-TOS space battles and it’s so boring. It’s much more hard scifi, but so dreadfully boring. Just people at consoles describing damage. The network executives were like, nah, put some firecrackers in there and then stumble around a lot.
Cathode Ray Dude did a video a while back about the real world equivalent of “Bypassing the relays!” and exploding bridge stations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4A Basically on military equipment like Navy ships, it can be important to be able to bypass circuit breakers and burn out motors if the difference is one last shot getting out.
“YouTuber talks at a camera for half an hour about something he found at the thrift store” is a well worn trope at this point, but CRD is a really good storyteller. It’s interesting to see out of all the technobabble and cliches on Star Trek, the exploding consoles and EPS relays are actually informed by writers who probably spent parts of their military careers toggling real world “battle shorts”.
If those Utopia Planitia engineers could read, they’d be very upset.
“We purposely designed the tactical stations incorrectly. As a joke.”
That would have serious implications on rock storage, though. Unfortunately, this is not an acceptable compromise.
They tried storing the rocks in blue barrels once, and you saw where that got us.
I saw someone say that they are the way they are because having tactical, or the helm shutdown during combat is way more deadly to the whole crew than the console exploding on one person
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This is the thing. You can’t use a circuit breaker if you’re powering your control console directly with “tuned plasma”.
And some emergency manual handles on the doors.
Circuit breakers were outlawed after the Butlerian Jihad
Now they just have super specialized weirdos who hold onto the circuits, having trained their minds to the point where they are able to control the electricity passing through their body.
The 2268 NEC now requires Arc Fault Circuit Interruptors and dedicated circuits on all consoles. Starfleet would be annoyed, if the upgrades cost them anything.
The 2272 code is supposed to require dedicated backup systems for shields so they don’t have to constantly “reroute power”
Health and safety gone mad, next you’ll be telling us no more storing rocks in the consoles, or that holodeck safety controls should be impossible to disengage by accident
