Picard Season 3

[Ruin Explorer]

Isn’t that what transporters are for? Flat out murdering everyone on the bridge seems a bit extreme.

I mean, I don't think the design-intention would normally be to "murder everyone on the bridge", but there are potentially situations where possibly killing people left on the bridge would be less bad than leaving miscreants on the bridge. Equally it could be used to vent goo or gas or whatever.

Sure transporters can move people, but they're constantly getting messed-with, and even in Trek they clearly have tech to work around them. I guess I find it reasonably plausible myself, given the numerous other bizarrely-specialized-seeming things we've seen Starfleet ships do - many of which Okuda was able to come up with good explanations for in various technical manuals.

 

[Clint_L]

K, just watched the first episode. 100% better than anything in Season 2. It felt like Star Trek again.

 

[Morrus]

Because it wasn't a "door", it was an emergency evacuation deal, presumably designed exactly for situations like this - i.e. when something is on the bridge and it needs to not be on the bridge anymore.

I assumed it was designed for crash landings and the like. It would normally be opened when the ship is on a planet's surface. Opening it while in space would be a non-typical use.

 

[Ryujin]

I assumed it was designed for crash landings and the like. It would normally be opened when the ship is on a planet's surface. Opening it while in space would be a non-typical use.

And would require that safety protocols be bypassed, which Data could do.

 

[bloodtide]

The big door behind the viewscreen does go all the way back to the OS Enterprise...though we never saw it. I'm sure it's in some of the blue prints....maybe even Mr Scotts guide.

Nearly all Federation Starships are made with a saucer section for a very specific reason: it's a Emergency Landing Craft made to Land on a planet.

The closest we get to see of this is in Star Trek Generations with the Enterprise D.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah they literally say it’s an emergency evacuation door. I don’t even understand why it’s a question. Like on an airplane with the inflated slides. “Why would you have doors that open into the sky?!l”

 

[Ryujin]

The big door behind the viewscreen does go all the way back to the OS Enterprise...though we never saw it. I'm sure it's in some of the blue prints....maybe even Mr Scotts guide.

Nearly all Federation Starships are made with a saucer section for a very specific reason: it's a Emergency Landing Craft made to Land on a planet.

The closest we get to see of this is in Star Trek Generations with the Enterprise D.

Maybe some of the blueprints, but certainly not in my 1975 Star Fleet Technical Manual.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

A tiny missed opportunity in the Data memories might have been an image of a Varon-T Disruptor or Varrian from The Most Toys. Because "Data cannot take a life" is not quite accurate (he can definitely take out people in a firefight when threatened), and that scenario went a step further - Data decided to pull the trigger on an a cruel villain that was helpless at that point.
But it worked thematically without that, too, I suppose.
But I think adopting Lore's code made the rest of the episode even easier to him.

 

[Hussar]

Yeah they literally say it’s an emergency evacuation door. I don’t even understand why it’s a question. Like on an airplane with the inflated slides. “Why would you have doors that open into the sky?!l”

But you generally don’t have them in the cockpit do you? And, a spaceship isn’t an airplane. A section of the wall that just can be opened in a spaceship is a spectacularly bad idea.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But you generally don’t have them in the cockpit do you? And, a spaceship isn’t an airplane. A section of the wall that just can be opened in a spaceship is a spectacularly bad idea.

You have an ejector seat in the cockpit. The entire saucer section on Federation ships is a giant ejector seat.