Intrepid Class

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:53 pm

Hmm, perhaps there is another way down then.
So thats one stupid featrue gone. Thankfully.

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:55 am

Would be cool if they just had a pole like firemen do.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:33 am

Ha! That would be too simple and resistant to random wandering damage for Starfleet to use!

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:51 pm

They would only use a pole if it was made of glass, had at minimum three touchscreens in it, and had plasma running through it at high pressure.
Think unsafe Teaos, that's how Starfleet does it.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:00 pm

Now you're thinking like a Starfleet engineer, Rochey!

Don't forget - that pole would have to be connected to at least three completely unrelated systems, so that a hit anywhere on the hull would cause it to explode in a shower of sparks.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:10 pm

Not just that; the pole would have to shake with such intensity that the person at the top will get thrown off.
It must only be the person at the top, so you can have them plumet dramaticaly past the bridge crew...

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:30 pm

How can I forget? Of course, that unfortunate crewman would have to receive almost uncannily one-sided burns to the face...

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:34 pm

Exactly, its written down in the laws of Starfleet: "Anyone attempting to build something that either A) makes sense, or, B) takes less than fifty words to explain, shall be demoted to 'nameless red-shirted ensign who follows the captain around on hostile planets'."

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:32 am

Sounds like a typical trek invention now.

EDIT: Commander Teaos.

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:21 am

I like this style of thinking, it makes sure that many people will suffer and die so that i may be amused.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:57 pm

Teaos, congrats on commander!

And I think I may just have invented the most ammusing way to kill people by making them go down that pole...

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:46 pm

part of the pole breaks just as the command crew reach the ground an a redshirt gets impaled!

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:02 pm

Don't you think they could just have staircases in the landing struts?

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:04 pm

Nope. Makes too much sense.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:10 pm

There's idiocy - Starfleet, then there's not having a manner to get out of a ship while it is sat down on land.