His paycheck, of course.
Because"quickivator" sounds stupid.
What did you think of Spock’s cool futuristic E6B slide rule?
Everything on a Federation starship is some form of suicide machine. When an officer or crewman goes to sleep, their matrix is cataloged and the body is vaporized so it won’t tax life support. When it’s time to “wake up”, a new body is “transported” into the berth.
On that note, a friend of mine with a fondness for Star Trek TOS, ripped copies of his Blu-rays, and a funky sense of humor created an “episode” of TOS where at any transition from a turbolift, transporter, or the like switched to a new episode. It actually almost made sense for a while.
So, I’ll just say that every time you enter a turbolift, you, much like Lazarus, may end up finding yourself in another closely related parallel world, replete with alternate visions of all you know and love, due to extended Federation and other polities time and universe swapping shenanigans.
A quick, computer based disintegration may well be a blessing!
I like it. Hot bunking taken to an extreme.
Maybe this is how they get away with putting a freaking nursery on a warship packed with enough firepower to slag the surface of a planet. Just slurp 'em into the transporter buffers when anything bad is about to happen. Eject the data pod if things get really dire.
All I know is, if there were lights in the turbolift shaft in the office building on LA Law, maybe Dr. Pulaski would still be alive today.
Just leaving these two here together.
Hmmm. One idea (stolen from the novel Still River by Hal Clement); maybe it’s simply a display in natural high-UV Vulcan lighting, shielded so the humans on the bridge don’t end up with eye damage from looking over his shoulder.
They’re still working on the “Where are the seat belts?” question.
Which would have the effect of suspending aging while you sleep. I’ll happily take a 1/3rd life extension program. Especially since it’s every day in youth, not just extending your final decrepit years.
Then again, you’d wake up as tired as when you went to bed. Uggh.
Brilliant!!!
Especially for a fan of TOS.
Seat belts where outlawed in the MAGA revolt of the 2030’s.
First they came for the seat belts, and I said nothing.
Then they came for the railings, and still, I said nothing.
Then they decided that exhaust ports no longer needed protecting, and I knew I had had enough.
Well, it was ray shielded.
This is a good answer, but the OP said to ignore Voyager, so you’re out of luck…
Was this also the time where pointless pyrotechnics were mandated in every bridge console and crew position?
But they were so happy when they were the only ones allowed to wear red shirts…
If only hats were shirts…