Something Star Trek Missed

[Anomalocaris]

Transporters, transwarp drive, universal translators, phasers, quantum torpedoes - but no one seems to have invented the fuse.



Boru

The warp engines are the fuses.   That’s why they always blow first to protect those blinkety  lights on the bridge.

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Transporters, transwarp drive, universal translators, phasers, quantum torpedoes - but no one seems to have invented the fuse.



Boru

Or seatbelts.

Seat belts would remove the dramatic possibility of Lieutenant Uhura falling uphill when all the rest of bridge crew fall down hill as the bridge of the enterprise takes on a sickening drunken list when the enterprise is hit by alien plasma torpedos.