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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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Printer driver failure: All hands abandon ship! (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just for theatrics. Inertial dampers practically negate any notion of movement.

Ex: TNG S4E3 "Brothers": Data commandeers the Enterprise in response to Soong's homing circuit. Due to the lockouts, Riker mentions that "The only way we knew we'd come out of warp was by looking out a window."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Except they break like Holodeck safety protocols