I’m not really clear on why the turbolift would fall in the first place… Is that a gravity plating thing? I guess gravity plating must work without power?

Also Picard knew it was going to fall… are we to infer he’d rather be pancaked than spend another moment with those kids?

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    I know the writers just think of them as elevators, but why are we generating artificial gravity in a turnolift shaft just so we can overcome it with another generated force?

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      Kinda related, I’ve been saying for years we need more “the gravity plating is out” episodes where everything is floating around, bumping into shit, causing problems. We got one scene in enterprise and that’s it. :/

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        The expanse really nailed the whole gravity thing. The explanation was entirely within the realm of science, and the low/zero g scenes looked amazing.

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        I mean, as far as the older shows, it was probably too expensive to produce “gravity-free” episodes?

        I did really enjoy them using the gravity being turned off in Subspace Rhapsody though!

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      So that you can stand on the lift, and not get head trauma every time you want to travel to a lower deck I’d assume.