Exploding consoles.

[Giantevilhead]

Does anyone else think that it's stupid how SG has those stupid exploding consoles like in Star Trek? I mean come on, are Goa'uld and Asgard technology incompatible with surge protectors? Who else thinks that they should get rid of exploding consoles?

PS, Didn’t there use to be a poll option?

[John Preston]

Things that merely stop working aren't as exciting as a sudden brilliant spark flying everywhere explosion!

[Macharius0]

What makes you thing the Goa'uld or Ancients have any concept of AC/DC? Not to be critical, but an overload is totally within the realm of possibility.

[thespyofcharles]

ya... u sorta need exploding consoles to make it look good... although they should come up with something else...


o and u need the pipes with steam in them... that serve no useful purpose... lol

[TechnoWraith]

One other possibility:

Some surges may be too much for even the SGC's surge protection to protect against.

But really, you lose all the excitement if the consoles don't blow up!

[Giantevilhead]

Well, at least they have seatbelts, or at least I think the earth ships have them.

[twiggy]

lol, all ships should have seatbelts, just in case

[TechnoWraith]

lol, all ships should have seatbelts, just in case

Airbags, too! Can't forget the Airbags.

[_Owen_]

They have to have exploding consoles, otherwise no one can get cool burns on thier faces. Realisticly Inertial Dampners are more effective than seatbelts and airbags.

Owen Macri

[col_oatmeal]

I think the pipes are funny! and the sparks are sort of annoying.

Why is it so hard to repair the consol? can't you just replace it quickly.

[Tain]

Totally agree. You would think any species advanced enough to build a starship would be smart enough to design consoles that don't blow up in the operator's face


While i think these will always be around in sci fi for the oooh ahhh effect, a more realistic way of portraying it would be having the console simply report a loss of data, kind of like when your internet connection kicks you.

IE instead of *death ray hits engine, engineering console on the bridge blows crewman 20 feet through the air* it would be *death ray hits engine, crewman at engineering consol on bridge reports he has lost data from engine*

[chyron]

I wonder if they buildt the Daedalis(sp?) with OnStar?

See related thread:
http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=11361

Airbags, too! Can't forget the Airbags.

[prion]

No offense, but consoles and computers have been blowing up like fireworks on the 4th of July since the days of Irwin Allen, and probably back to Commander Cody, come to think of it. In reality things don't blow up like that, but since TV is a visual medium....

[Dotus5]

You always see the consoles exploding and steam or gas pipes burst, but how often do you see some type of liquid container leak or burst. They should have someone show up after a fight covered in hydrolic fluid or worse, 'waste' water.

[TechnoWraith]

You always see the consoles exploding and steam or gas pipes burst, but how often do you see some type of liquid container leak or burst. They should have someone show up after a fight covered in hydrolic fluid or worse, 'waste' water.

But the only places where usually find such containers are in storage or transport bays. But you could place such containers in the engineering area i suppose.