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As part of a little project, I'm looking for a listing of Starship Malfunctions. I know this is a bit odd, and a lot of it is technobabble, but if anyone knows any specific malfunctions and what systems they affect, its much appreciated.
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Well, are you looking for what we might call pure malfunctions, or do ones caused as a result of sabotage or some unintentional source count? Just off the top of my head, you've got some serious computer failures in "Lonely Among Us" and "Contagion," but the first was due to a trapped energy being and the second a millenia-old infoweapon.
As far as nonmalicious mechanical failures go, there's the flawed dilithium support frame in "The Drumhead."
So which kind are you looking for?
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But the one will never, ever be included is the failure of the gravity generators!
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And recently, for the first time ever, a failure of the self-destruct system.
Transporter systems have malfunctioned a couple times, reasons ranging from bad weather to missing component to sabatoge.
The fire suppression system is almost always malfunctioning, back on the Ent-D.
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Holodecks, if you're willing to spare a couple of hundred pages.
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i almost crapped myself when Voyager's core ejection system worked that one time. I mean, the core NEVER ejects.. EVER.. that would have been too easy! Does anyone have a good tally of how many times the day would have been saved by a core ejection? "Generations" "Cause and Effect" "Contagion".. oh man.
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IIRC, Voyager's auto-destruct system malfunctioned and couldn't be activated back in "Basics, Part I"... the finale for the 2nd season where they kept on getting attacked by the Kazon. because of Seska.
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And there really is a way around the failure of the auto-destruct system. Just drop the containment fields around the antimatter in the core and the pods.
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There probably isn't a way to do that manually, that'd be alittle dangerous. I'll bet that can only be done as a command through the self-destruct system.
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Well, you could always just shoot the antimatter pods w/ a phaser.
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get phaser rifle. go to engineering. i'll let you figure it from there.
maybe they just didn't WANT to die as much as they should have at that point, hmmm?
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