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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 69 points 1 year ago (5 children)

wait till they rediscover seatbelts

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If bracing for impact is good enough for the Enterprise, it's good enough for my Hyundai.

In my CRV I'll often initiate attack plan omega.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what the inertial dampeners are for!

... if they were working

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

"Inertial dampeners have failed."

Many times someone will say this while the ships is performing combat maneuvers at several hundred kilometers per second.

If that were true, everyone onboard would instantly become "chunky salsa." (Obscure Trek-related quote, for anyone that can place it.)

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 16 points 1 year ago

Have you tried diverting power from life support yet?

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and start actually putting on space suits when they should.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then they can't get infected by the secret bioengineered virus left behind by the extinct species!

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That would of course be a missed opportunity to tell the millionth variation of a space horror story almost as old as the sci-fi genre itself.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then gatekeeping fans will say it breaks canon, has to be an alternate timeline/universe because they didn’t need those in TOS/TNG.

Oh, wait, that’s one of the criticisms of the environmental suits in Discovery and SNW…

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of things to criticize about Discovery. How someone could choose to pick the spacesuits evades me.

[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

THEY DO HAVE THEM! Every once in a while a trek will show seatbelts and then proceed to forget about them later.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't there a joke about that in Nemesis?