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Airbags and Seatbelts in shuttles

anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
edited October 2013 in Ten Forward
I was re-watching a few episodes of Enterprise, and suddenly came to realize:
Why did'n they install Air-bags and Seatbelts on shuttles?

I mean, In TNG alone they wrecked several shuttles, often with head injuries.

I know that Air-bags have massive drawbacks (talking from expirience, they aren't always comfortable to come into contact with), but by the 24'th century, you'd think they would have fixed those flaws, and made them comfortable to hit on impact.

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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Same reason they've never heard of circuit breakers, seat belts, or pressure suits* on the bridge, and the same reason the big E's warp core can't eject: it's cooler-looking to have redshirts getting killed by getting tossed around the set.

    * In the event of hull breach.
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Hehe makes me think of all the times those tubes and cables fall off the ceiling

    Why do they keep putting them back up there!


    though i think as with most things a bit unusually silly in trek, its to do with the Secret Cabal who maintain the Narrative with their vast array of plot devices

    Either that or it was......The ICONIANS!
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  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Like the real military, all items are manufactured by the lowest bidding contractor.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    cptjhunter wrote: »
    Like the real military, all items are manufactured by the lowest bidding contractor.

    Well I think theres only one bidder... Total price for a Type 11 shuttle: 0 EC.
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  • ussfuryussfury Member Posts: 142 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    They could also do that foam filling barrier you see in Demolition Man. Turn 'em into a giant cannoli.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    I prefer the way David Weber handles battle damage and its effects on the crew, although it would never fly on network television. (HBO, maybe.) We start with the guy in On Basilisk Station who got messily decapitated by shrapnel from a hit near the bridge and work our way up to the occasional references to the results of inertial dampener failure: every crew member on the whole ship is instantly reduced to something vaguely resembling chunky salsa.
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