quote:Originally posted by Tahna Los: You know, something really bugs me regarding the destruction of the Ent-D. Why didn't they simply eject the core? Unless the ejector controls were destroyed, but they didn't say that.
IIRC if a nuclear-powered ocean-going vessel took that amount of damage THE FIRST thing the crew would do is take the reactor off-line and switch to backup desiel generators. That was LaForge's major mastake. As soon as the BOP was blasted he should have reached over and hit the Big Red Button marked E-STOP and kicked in the backup power systems.
A nuclear power-plant shuts itself down if the Reactor Protection System THINKS somthing might be wrong, I don't see why the Computer didn't read "E1P1A1: Faulty Containment Generator-Failure Probable" and trigger a shut-down.
And where the hell were the backup cooling systems? Our local Nuclear Reactor (Ginna Station) has three redundant backups, one of which is fail-safe. It could be argued that they were running on the backups do to the damage though...
As for not ejecting the core... Prehaps after the Yammato blew up the policy was changed to "Step One: Abandon Ship... Step Two: Run Like Hell... Step Three: Attempt to eject the core by remote."
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We know from various episodes such as Contagion that the antimatter containment systems have a number of backups, and the liklihood of failure is very slim. But, the Enterprise here was heavily damaged, and all systems, it would seem were not operational and offline.
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It seemed rather strange how Geordi couldn't eject the warp core when needed. But I guess you can always do a future Trek episode on why this didn't happen; a time travel episode like "Trials and Tribble-ations" type of a thing.
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It seemed rather strange how Geordi couldn't eject the warp core when needed. But I guess you can always do a future Trek episode on why this didn't happen; a time travel episode like "Trials and Tribble-ations" type of a thing.
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Prehaps the core was too un-stable to eject? Or maybe standing policy changed after the loss of the Yammato, as stated above.
Personaly, I think he needed to do more to save the ship, at least they should have added more dialog rather than just "fuc# it, we're doomed. Lets run and get another ship!"
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That Damn Fish got into the reactor core, that's why.
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No, please... not That Damn Fish (TM), here too...
SPOILER! TREK X SPOILER! BEWARE...
Highlight between brackets to see: [It seems that there will be a similar scene in Trex X: Deanna Troi will take the helm again, but nothing will happen (ie: no crash this time). Talk about running out of ideas...]
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If I were Picard, I wouldn't even allow Troi anywhere near the bridge after the crash. She only states the alien's obvious intentions anyway...
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And I thought that spoiler was going to be about Picard's fish appearing in Star Trek X. ( (If it did - it'd probably end up with more screen time than Beverly, Geordi, Troi and Worf combined!)
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( (If it did - it'd probably end up with more screen time than Beverly, Geordi, Troi and Worf combined!)
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