Star Trek: The Next Generation : What we didn't see onboard

What we didn't see onboard

Although we saw glimpses of families and their children we were never shown what they did when the ship was under attack - hide under table?

The children must have been terrified - but when there were casualties all we heard were statements like 'We lost a lot of good people down there'

At least in TOS we saw crew being thrown about in the corridors - but we just seemed to see very little of the overall compliment when the ship was being attacked in TNG


NB - Just watching 'The Wounded' and there is an announcement to take emergency stations at the beginning when O'brien is trying to eat his new wife's 'delicious' concoction of plankton loaf and sea berries.

A good excuse for him to leave the meal.

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I think that is the most annoying thing about Keiko: since she was willing to try Miles' relatively unhealthy Irish dishes, she then forced him to endure her so-called healthy Japanese crap. Don't stand for that, Miles! Put your foot down!

Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?

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I mentioned something similar to this a long time ago.
We just see what's happening on the bridge of the ship.
I imagine all sorts of people, not just families, doing all sorts of mundane things suddenly being tossed around as the 'inertial dampers' or what ever go off line because the ship is taking phaser fire...
( or whatever)
I'd be the one in the top bunk......

No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed

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Yes as viewers we just focus on the main characters as well as the guest stars. I don't think the actual day to day workings of this huge ship were ever properly addressed.

Of course there were occasional shots of the kids being taught at nursery but to be honest the original idea of having families onboard became more and more preposterous as the series progressed.

The Enterprise should have remained as just an exploration and research ship - heavily armed of course.

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The children must have been terrified - but when there were casualties all we heard were statements like 'We lost a lot of good people down there'



Kids who are assigned are shown this video of what to do in case of an emergency;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

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Yes spot on - a well made 24th century video.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvbjcmyKGo

this one is my favorite.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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Awesome. That has nearly 2 million views.

RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn

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Well, we know they were put in the most vulnerable parts of the ship, far away from the center of mass and close to the surfaces, so that the crew could be protected from hostile fire. They did their part for the Federation.

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Funny, Wylde. They knew what they were getting into.

RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn

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Clearly disciples of the ISIS code of conduct.

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children shouldn't be on the ship. i think picard put in the code to self destruct at least once. that's fine for the crew but kind of bad when kids are involved

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He's the captain. He can do whatever he likes.

RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn
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