LCARS Marker for STM mod?

[AngleWyrm]

And some further meanderings on a totally off topic trek...

This flow regulator panel shows a white status light. The quick-access menu on the left has filled with two ports that have 'Notify Operator' status (port 15 and port 3). Other ports can be reached from the 'port' button. Port 15 is the culprit of the white status flag, and pressing the '15' menu item produces the displayed sub-menu, where we see that flow through port fifteen has exceeded maximum set point. All this with only one keypress from the user.

Port 3 is a lower priority notification, and examination results in the discovery that the port three flow regulator is scheduled for routine maintenance.

Make sense to you?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Yep.

[Randallw]

LCARS have to be pressed for a minimum time so as to avoid glancing blows working. Also I don't think they work if a bunch of them are pressed at once, so as to avoid wrong input when you land on it after the power grid blows during a battle.

[AngleWyrm]

Which seems to happen quite frequently on starship bridges. Also, evidently inertial dampers are more difficult to get working right than transporters, replicators, and warp cores...no, strike that--warp cores regularly go into a breach overload countdown. Wonder if the Romulans have the same kind of problems with their Quantum Singularity Reactors.

And how come they don't just replicate some dilithium crystals? Science Fiction, the story of "what if.." What if they solved the problem of people wandering around in dark tunnels with flashlights? Like transporter drones, for instance. The dead-horse flogging x-files suspense scene would be removed. Isn't that an improvement in the quality of life? Isn't that what trek technology is all about?

[Randallw]

Well you can't replicate energy. They use the Dilithium crystals to get energy. Why use the crystals if you have replicators that can create that much energy from thin air. While discussing replicators, has anyone thought about the raw mterial used to make things. heres a hint, with 1500 people on the ship theres a lot of...how can I put it....raw material being produced.

[AngleWyrm]

Reorganizing the molecular structure of...spent fuel.

[El_Phil]

Ahhh a STM idea: Cut the damage resistance of warp cores, nacelles and impulse engines to one to reflect their amazing ability to break down/breach/go into overload/technobabble problem of the week just when they're needed the most.

[Atrocities]

I still do not understand the exploding panel thing.... Please tell me that by the 24th century that have not yet adopted the idea of adding surge protectors to all systems. Seems to me that it would be a no brainer to do so.

Back in TOS, the exploding panels worked, but by TNG era, they should have fixed this.... and to be killed by an exploding panel... Oh give me a fricking break!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Oog...Crystals 4th dimensional. Maybe repilcators can't replicate that?

[AngleWyrm]

Could be.

Quark said something similar about gold pressed latinum. It wasn't the gold, or the pressed latinum, it was the pressed latinum within the gold that made it valuable. Perhaps the labor that goes into manufacturing it? Must have made sense to Quark, he sure likes the stuff.

Hey (in another wierd jump of illogic) Just watched TOS:The Changeling, and in one scene Uhura has had her entire memory banks erased of all education. They have to retrain her, and while she's learning to read, she gets frustrated and lapses into Swahili. Like it's a primitive tongue of the uneducated mind. Isn't that a revealing bit of history? Just like seeing her panties regularly