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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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wait till they rediscover seatbelts
If bracing for impact is good enough for the Enterprise, it's good enough for my Hyundai.
Everyone else in the minivan:
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In my CRV I'll often initiate attack plan omega.
That's what the inertial dampeners are for!
... if they were working
"Inertial dampeners have failed."
Many times someone will say this while the ships is performing combat maneuvers at several hundred kilometers per second.
If that were true, everyone onboard would instantly become "chunky salsa." (Obscure Trek-related quote, for anyone that can place it.)
Have you tried diverting power from life support yet?
But then they can't get infected by the secret bioengineered virus left behind by the extinct species!
Then gatekeeping fans will say it breaks canon, has to be an alternate timeline/universe because they didn’t need those in TOS/TNG.
Oh, wait, that’s one of the criticisms of the environmental suits in Discovery and SNW…
THEY DO HAVE THEM! Every once in a while a trek will show seatbelts and then proceed to forget about them later.
Isn't there a joke about that in Nemesis?