Re: Why do you need 50,000 volts for a console?

On 15 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (captjim) asserted:
>I believe we got a good look at the inside of one of those consoles
>in the DS9 episode "One Little Ship".  What exactly we saw in there
>I don't actually remember though. [...]

We saw giant isolinear chips slotted into giant boxes labeled with
giant text, connected by giant glowing python-lengths of plastic
conduit, i.e. clothes dryer vents.  Searching by title, Google can't
find any relevant images.

The arrangement made slightly more sense than the inside of Robby the
Robot in "Lost in Space" (random gears! random roving laser-defense
microbot!) or the inside of Megatron in "Transformers":"Microbots"
(more random gears! random evil brain impulses!), and somewhat less
sense than the inside of the Russian defector in "Fantastic Voyage"
(random giant antibodies!) -- but exactly as much sense as the inside
of the Miniscope in "Doctor Who":"Carnival of Monsters".

At least Bashir, Dax and O'Brien remembered that the oxygen molecules
outside their runabout were too big to breathe -- so they beamed out a
bubble of air to fill the hermetically-sealed volume.  Then they
forgot about this, and staggered about anoxically -- rather than, say,
beam out *more* air, or don suits, or grab some of those breather
masks from "The Empire Strikes Back" or "The Wrath of Khan".

Sikozu had the same objection in "Farscape":"I Shrink, Therefore I
Am"; but unfortunately, the universe declined to adhere to her
provincial notions of logic and physics.

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