Ma Walton (Michael Learned) wants some words with you.
How many spacesuits?
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Ma Walton (Michael Learned) wants some words with you.
You’d think that life support belts would have received updates to prevent that by the time of PIC, with personal force fields and subspace bubbles being actual things.
Exactly who I was thinking about, too.
Maybe because none of that is what it's supposed to do. It "just" a type of spacesuit and nothing more. One did a half-assed job of preventing Scotty from being crushed, and again probably not what it was design to do.
If it's punctured it would "self seal" instead of leak. It's skin tight, easier (apparently) to move in that a physical pressure suit, and provides you with life support, largely that's it.
Also, it's way quicker to don than a spacesuit, including (demonstrably) the DSC ones that have clickety-clackety "Jaffa helmet" technology.
It's difficult to think of a shortcoming. But for some reason, these things still disappear from use after TAS (even if we might argue they remain present as such, being part of the uniforms or their Batbelts in the following decades), while conventional spacesuits of all sorts remain in active use.
Perhaps there are reliability issues, even if TAS hints at none? While a power failure in a forcefield is potentially much easier to patch than a rip in a spacesuit (any of the myriad power restoration mechanisms in Trek supposedly works, while few places would have physical material for suit repairs available), it has more disastrous immediate results for the wearer.
Alternately, the forcefields might be bad for your health. And possibly even Kirk in TAS would be aware of that, but the safety standards of his day would differ from those of later Trek eras and heroes.
Timo Saloniemi
It's difficult to think of a shortcoming. But for some reason, these things still disappear from use after TAS (even if we might argue they remain present as such, being part of the uniforms or their Batbelts in the following decades), while conventional spacesuits of all sorts remain in active use.
Perhaps there are reliability issues, even if TAS hints at none? While a power failure in a forcefield is potentially much easier to patch than a rip in a spacesuit (any of the myriad power restoration mechanisms in Trek supposedly works, while few places would have physical material for suit repairs available), it has more disastrous immediate results for the wearer.
Alternately, the forcefields might be bad for your health. And possibly even Kirk in TAS would be aware of that, but the safety standards of his day would differ from those of later Trek eras and heroes.
Timo Saloniemi
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