Star Trek: Lower Decks confirmed that Starfleet ships have seat belts, so why are officers always getting flung around the bridge?
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Star Trek: Lower Decks showed that Starfleet ships have seat belts, but, for some reason, starship captains and crews seem to rarely use this common safety feature. Since Star Trek: The Original Series began in 1966, starship crews have been getting tossed around the bridges of their starships.
The fact that Starfleet ships do indeed have seat belts raises the question of why the bridge crews don't use them more often. Seat belts have been seen a few other times throughout various Star Trek projects, but not as often as they perhaps should. Many shuttles and smaller ships have been shown to have seat belts or harnesses, as they can make much quicker adjustments in speed and direction. In J.J.
Why Star Trek Doesn’t Use Seat Belts Even If Starships Have Them There is no clear in-universe reason to explain why starship bridge crews, in particular, do not use seat belts more often. With the inertial dampeners, starship crews would not need to wear seat belts all the time, but they would be useful in combat situations. Many bridge officers have been injured because they flew out of their seats when their ships were fired upon or performed complicated evasive maneuvers.
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