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“Look, we’ve only got the one engineering set, so we’d better use it.”
Geordie at least has an excuse as he was brainwashed by Romulans at the time. Data on the other hand was just an idiot.
Average ss13 shift
Needs more clown lube
Same place they tested the completely unknown device there which send out an energy beam that nearly killed a crewman. And then they decided to intentionally do it again right after.
Serious question here: isn’t the Warp core not the best place to do this? They probably have the right equipment and sensors in the engineering section to do that test and I would also image that the warp core would be much safer because of its added protection systems than anywhere else on the ship, right? So if the weapon blows up, they shut that section off, wait for it to blow and dust off the consoles.
It also looks like they are firing away from the warp core and not at it.
As for data standing right behind it, I mean, he is an android who doesn’t fear death or injury…
They have a literal firing range on the ship.
Interesting point but isn’t that more for practice? I mean more in the range of a very controlled and secure environment in which those phasers are not being able to hurt anybody. So the actual area doesn’t need to be highly shielded or protected because the phasers wouldn’t do any damage.
It would 100% be set up for livefire and over engineered. they FIND CRAZY SHIT UNDER EVERY ROCK. they are always in there drunk off their asses firing off borg weapons and doin lines.
Not sure why you’re here trying to defend an objectively idiotic setting for that scene. It could’ve happened in the observation lounge and still have been more acceptable of a location.
How is asking a question “defending it”?
My head canon is after some politics they decided to severely limit Space OSHA. They’re just so understaffed they can’t bother to have any oversight of starships even after report after report of preventable violations keep getting added to the backlog.
