Quote:Cutting of the air to the bridge should have taken everyone down before it got cold enough for it to start looking like Apollo 13. I would think that cutting off the bridge's control ability and air was really all that was needed, as opposed to shutting off all life support. Maybe Khan just didn't get a chance to study the tech manuals in enough detail, but I noticed that the lights and the instrument panels never went dark.
I know that Khan did this from Engineering. Wouldn't it make sense that the bridge has an override feature to restore life support functions? For that matter, couldn't life support functions also be shut down from the bridge?
Quote:The neural gas thing suggests to me that the designers of the Enterprise foresaw the possibility the ship might be boarded or taken over and provided for that, but that the people responsible for actually preventing such a takeover were lax in implementing the necessary security precautions. And how the heck does a historian get access to a phaser when she's not going on a mission where one would be issued to her??? I think there's a reason why we never saw any security officer more than once.
I think this is a silly kind of a weapon to install on the Enterprise, especially in view of Kirk's opening statement that they will be visiting strange new worlds and new civilizations. Alien physiology(?) might not be affected by neural gas. I am also leery of gas being used to begin with. If there's suspected danger, then the crew needs to be armed with phasers.
You know, the question occurred to me earlier today that we never saw how these 70+ people managed to disable the over 400 people that are aboard the Enterprise. Did they toss them in a storeroom somewhere? And just how did they all manage to transport to the Enterprise on just five pads? And did McGiver just sit there and twiddle her thumbs until they all came back?
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