It never really made sense to me that the saucer section didn’t have warp capability. I mean, “We’re going to put all our people, except a skeleton crew on the barge and let them drift at sublight.”
I didn’t have a problem with the transporter being able to send folks without a pickup mechanism at the other end. However, given that technology it was kind of absurd for Kirk to be surprised at “Landru’s” capability to do the same with a hologram.
I’m pretty sure you would hear the sound the turbolift doors make when they open.
Hey, we don’t know on what the technology of the 23rd century is based. Maybe duotronics requires the use of such media! Otherwise, why would they be playing with those brightly-colored microcassettes all the time? :dubious:
(Okay, I know they were just painted pieces of wood, but still…)
The saucer had impulse engines, but a fat lot of good it would do them in interstellar space. By the time they arrived anywhere, they’d all be old, and everybody else would be dead.
Like anyone else in a lifeboat, you’d just have to wait for someone with warp drive to come along and pick you up. Frankly, I’d be more worried about that Borg cube that just destroyed the rest of the ship and is now closing on us. :eek:
Yeah … just before someone elbows you in the gut and gives you a karate chop to the neck! :mad:
In every real ship I’ve ever been on, you entered the bridge from either behind, behind and below, or behind and from the sides.
They do, however, have subspace communications and so could simply call for help from warp-capable ship.
Hope they kept their Space Tow membership. Those frackers charge a fortune for non members.
Well, if they can get a cup section, they could have tea!
Was it Airplane 2 where the people coming and going from the bridge each made that sound with their mouths? An invader might not know to do that.
You need those two warp engines sticking out on pylons.
Also problemmatic are at least a couple of episodes where people are transported unexpectedly (like, out of a dangerous situation), and arrive at their destination in the exact same pose they left, apparently unaware of having been transported. For example, we see such a situation at the end of that episode with the aliens that think abstractly. Picard is about to get his ass kicked by that invisible monster when the Enterprise rescues him, and when he re-appears on the ship he is still about to fight it. Clearly he is not aware of having been transported, because if he was, even the couple of seconds it takes would be enough for him to compose himself, or at least avoid an embarassing panic response in front of his crew.
… And attract the attention of every hostile vessel in the vicinity. 
It’s the same with aircraft cockpits. You do not put a door in front of the helmsman, he has other things to be looking at.
IIRC, the original blueprints put a kickout panel in that wall to the left of the viewscreen. Kickout panels are intended for emergency egress, but could be used by intruders to gain access to the bridge.
Also in Mirror Mirror…the guards are looking exactly where they need to be
The Mirror guys knew how to run an Empire and a Starship. :dubious:
Your agonizer, please. :dubious: