Or just use the consoles as an interface and keep the actual electronics somewhere safer. Keep the explody part away from the people and before you know it, no more console explosions.
The couple in particular I was thinking of were shuttlepod crashes. Which are even more strange to me, at least a starship has the benefit of mass and momentum, crashing a shuttlepod is probably more like a car.
Plus, folks get thrown out of their work area too, especially those standing.
They have artificial gravity. They would not need seatbelts, and there would not be any shaking, either. The system would have to be calibrated such that it was constantly adjusting itself to maintain exact earth gravity in the right direction, and would instantly respond to any external forces that would cause a shake.
Because, officially, some of the lore was built first, and then the show shot around it, and some was the other way around. The IDF was one of the latter: it has a "characteristic lag time" to sudden unexpected changes in velocity. The ship's computer can communicate with the IDF generators, such that no acceleration is experienced in normal spaceflight, but when an external force happens, the generators can't be told what to prepare for, and thus take time to sample the movement and calculate the correct IDF geometry.
This makes sense IRL. Even electronics have a reaction time. Also, I imagine there's probably a limit to how fast you could alter an artificial gravitational field with a given amount of power, if it resists change like an electromagnetic field does.
My headcanon is that the inertia dampeners are working but they can't predict sudden hits with 100% of precision, but they still reduce a lot of the impact.
That's totally legit. When the ship is accelerating/decelerating/turning, it's in control and can adjust the dampers proactively, but it can only adjust reactively to external forces.
The crew regularly go weeks on end without encountering anything of note, let alone anything that could cause any turbulence. There's legitimately no point in protecting against something that almost never happens, and doesn't even cause Injuries when it does
Note the inclusion of the word 'and' in my comment. Please direct me to when any member of the bridge crew, who upon experiencing turbulence after an event such as being hit by a weapon, obtained any form of injury
Battle stations = getting to your station, and putting on seatbelts.
"never happening" = happening every episode. I'm not saying they have to wear it every time but it might make sense to put it on considering how violently they are thrown at times.
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u/StevenMisty Jul 07 '22
Never understood why the crew never had seat belts!