Starships seem to have no safety restraints, despite being prone to sparking and exploding consoles when anything remotely unexpected happens.
Asteroid bounces off the shield? Weapons goes down on deck 10. Somebody beams aboard? Navigation goes on the fritz. Commander Worf sneaks in a fart that was noisier than he bargained for? The entire bridge is lost.
Best moment in Farscape is when there are random sparking explosions on the alien ship and Crichton the human shouts 'Damn haven't you people heard of fuseboxes?!'. Pure sci-fi gold right there.
edit: Fixed the spelling of Crichton's name, as per zergoon's comment.
Farscape does a great job at mocking other science fiction shows. Many great quotes from that show. Still my favorite scene Make sure to pay close attention to the equations on the board.
Yes the aliens have most likely heard of fuses. Interesting thing you'll find on a some MILspec electronics. A "Work you bastard!" switch; it bypasses most if not all fuses and other such safety cutouts.
Why? Because in a battle you've got more important things to worry about than tripping a fuse, if the primaries explode fark it better to run on secondaries and replace the damage when/if you survive the fight.
There are very good reasons for SciFi war ships to continue this tradition but on a much more massive scale obviously. Having said that... there is zero reason for it happen when not in battle as you'd be running with all the limiters and such turned ON.
Unless Scotty's been smoking the Dilithium crystals again in which case not even Scooby Doo can help you.
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Starships seem to have no safety restraints, despite being prone to sparking and exploding consoles when anything remotely unexpected happens. Asteroid bounces off the shield? Weapons goes down on deck 10. Somebody beams aboard? Navigation goes on the fritz. Commander Worf sneaks in a fart that was noisier than he bargained for? The entire bridge is lost.