• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      2 days ago

      Look, there’s a reason you can wire almost any heavy machinery into any random console or wall panel… When you run this much power to every station, exploding panels are gonna happen.

      It’s either that, or we run our ships like Vulcans, and that’s just boring.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      That’s what happens when your computer designers seem to have a microtape loose, and decide that connecting the multi-exawatt power system directly to all the powered systems is a good idea.

      Prssumably the same people who build a malevolent AI that takes over the ship every few decades, or makes it so that starships explode if they bonk into anything hard enough.