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Perhaps the ship controls are not DNA-specific so that, when someone does take over, their first act is not to cut off the captain's hands to use to control the ship.
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Sweet: the landing pads look like giant pinball flipper for deflecting torpedos...the straight phasers are the bouncy parts in our Trek pinball ship...
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Perhaps the ship controls are not DNA-specific so that, when someone does take over, their first act is not to cut off the captain's hands to use to control the ship.
You'd think that with their sensors (capable of detecting radiation in a nebula down to parts per million), the ship's internal sensors could monitor vocal, retenal and DNA patterns of key personell.
Probably catch ongoing DNA samples via the person's respiration.
Besides, you'd think the holograms could have just flushed the ship's atmosphere...
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If there's one thing we know about the Federation, they're Safety Nazis. Especially when it comes to a Starship's environmental controls. You got triple-redundancies, failsafes, backups etc. They're all going to kick in as soon as a pressure loss is detected. And even if they were all bypassed, you can be sure a little readout would start blinking on the bridge. There are probably some detectors which would also be there to notice unwanted chemicals in the atmosphere, hence the need to release the knockout gas from Environmental Control where it could be 'officially' added to the mix.
And, remember these are medical holograms. I doubt they could overcome their programming sufficiently to then consider deliberately asphyxiating living beings.
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Yeah, but that was a controlled ventilation, from a cargo bay that could well have the ability to vent its atmosphere if needed. We've seen that many such external openings have force fields (shuttlebays, that room in ST:FC) but there must be a way to deactivate them remotely with the proper authorisation.
I never realized how non-scale that looked. Hey, they even put tiny windows on the bottom lip of the spoon section! What's that for, the gerbil crew members?
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Those windows are on the secondary hull, far behind the saucer edge in the foreground. But yeah, those are rather tiny Borg. Did they assimilate the Oompah Loompah planet?
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Sorta true, though it itsn't necessarily a REAL man-sied hatch. Mind you, I do remember a picture of a deleted scene from "Caretaker" which had Paris and Kim coming aboard Voyager through that hatch. It wasn't an airlock set as on DS9 - just a larger set of intereor doors. Does anyone have that "making of Voyager" book from Pocket, published in the first couple of seasons?
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Why would Paris and Kim have come aboard through that hatch? They were in a shuttle craft. How would it have docked with that hatch? Do the shuttlecraft have some kind of hidden extendable docking collar?
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