• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Once again I remind you all that these consoles are not powered by a substance as boring as regular electricity. Oh no. It has to be highly energetic tuned plasma…straight to the user interface consoles…for, uh, reasons.

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      1 year ago

      The reason is because the engines produce this material as a waste product. So instead of venting it into space it’s processed and funneled back through the ship to power everything from lights to equipment.

      Very efficient and very VERY dangerous. Many Vulcans retired from the VSA because Humans pulled shit like this.

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t it be easier and safer to just use it to generate boring old electricity and send that through the ship? Maybe the danger is there to keep the crew excited and working at maximum efficiency…

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        1 year ago

        All I’m saying is, there’s no way this would pass a MIL-STD-882 safety assessment in the twenty first century. So I have no idea how they got their spaceworthiness certificate.

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      1 year ago

      Gotta have a way to effortlessly kill redshirts. Whoops! Another plasma conduit blew out. Poor Gary.