Star Trek ship design

[IronWing]

In original Star Trek, the crew was forever having to cut power to the shields to use the transporter or vice versa. Fair enough. How come in Star Trek, New Generation, with a much newer ship, they have to do the same thing? Did the ship's design team learn nothing? Was the plot device so critcal that Star Fleet engineers held back on installed power to add drama? Why?

 

[pmv]

In original Star Trek, the crew was forever having to cut power to the shields to use the transporter or vice versa. Fair enough. How come in Star Trek, New Generation, with a much newer ship, they have to do the same thing? Did the ship's design team learn nothing? Was the plot device so critcal that Star Fleet engineers held back on installed power to add drama? Why?

I thought the point was that the transporters wouldn't work through the shields (because they'd 'block' them somehow)? A rule presumably invented to produce dramatic tension?

 

[lxskllr]

Windows. As soon as you get better resources, Windows releases a new O/S to eat them all, so you're effectively static for available power.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I thought the point was that the transporters wouldn't work through the shields (because they'd 'block' them somehow)? A rule presumably invented to produce dramatic tension?

This. In ST lore you cannot beam through shields. For lore reasons, this is to prevent obvious things like beaming a landing party to a starship's bridge mid-combat, or beaming an armed torpedo into the warp core, or other silly shit.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

This. In ST lore you cannot beam through shields. For lore reasons, this is to prevent obvious things like beaming a landing party to a starship's bridge mid-combat, or beaming an armed torpedo into the warp core, or other silly shit.

^^^^This^^^^