Production costs!

The expanse did this well because they used acceleration not artificial gravity.

Expanse did it amazingly imo, it also adds some realism into a otherwise very fictional story, which makes it somewhat easier to vibe with it.

"Captain, we were hit by a Class IV Photon torpedo in the aft. The production budget exploded!"

Who else is thinking of that one scene near the start of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

Or Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard, Worf, and redshirt Neil McDonough test out their zero G combat training, further cementing the fact that Star Trek only remembers that space has no gravity when it's relevant to the plot.

Just flip around halfway and start slowing down! Free acceleration / deceleration gravity.

"Gravity plating!" As long as there is floor, you're good.

Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country did it, even making it a point during the Trial ;-)

If it were expected to be more than a 1 in 1000 risk, they would probably have handles on the walls and ceilings to help move about during an emergency.

Gawwwd, the scene where mid fight there are unsecured wrenches floating around was so beautifully tense.

That was my first thought and I am having trouble thinking of additional examples.

Magnetic shoes?

They do throw things out the airlock an awful lot. Though, somehow, Borg don’t have the strength to stop it but Beverly Crusher does.

On a space station more than a space battle, but Titan AE had a scene that made good use of this. The station is old, and early in the scene the gravity generator goes on the fritz, causing everyone to float until some percussive maintenance gets it working again. When bad guys show up Matt Damon shoots the generator to cause some confusion and let him escape faster by pushing off toward the exit.

They actually do that in The Expanse.

And magnetic shoes.

They did in the first episode of Transformers Animated. Granted, that was a cartoon, which made it infinitely easier to have them float in zero gravity than a live action movie.

Cough, Undiscovered Country.

Admit it, you wanted to ask which movies and shows have done it. Instead of asking for people to tell you what the correct answer is, it’s far more effective to post the wrong answer, and wait for the flood of answers to arrive.

Gravity is on a separate subsystem & power supply, because without gravity people couldn’t reasonably move and fix the rest of the ship, so even when compared to general life support, it’s the most critical function and the most isolated.

And production cost.

That would be why I brought it up, yes.

Beverly Crusher fucked a ghost. She can do anything.

That was such a nice touch and just cost some red leds. I'm the books they spend a lot of time on the float (to expensive to burn all the time). The way the TV show got around it all was great

Don't forget the sound, that clunk with every step is what sold it as real.

Moonraker has a similar scene.

I’m glad somebody else caught this, it always irritated me in Enterprise when they insisted that it was a gravity generator and not just plating.

My wife abused star trek of being a soap opera at some point. At first I thought, maybe she's just showing up at the worst possible time?

No. It's all of the time. Every episode has some weird soapy bullshit. Beverly fucking a ghost, LaForge fucking a hologram, Riker fucking anything with genitals INCLUDING a hologram. Everybody be fuckin. That's not even the soapiest thing. Voyager is basically Soaps in space.

I love classic trek, but guys I think it's a soap opera.

Even when the life support systems have completely lost power, everyone is dying, etc. Gravity is the one system too critical to reroute.

Good ol' Blazin Bev

That's the episode where for some reason the Deception jets turn into triangles and after sleeping for 6 million years Optimus wakes and just says "thanks" and throws Teletran-1 a thumbs up and also Casey Kasem is there right

Gravity is a very dense liquid. Generator makes it in big batches at a time and it just stays there for long even after the generator is gone. After the battle is done and everything is repaired, they just top up the pool and all is good.

Adrian Tchaikovsky has some sci-fi books that make use of this idea.

I find not many things are destroyed unless integral to the plot but there are times where it does because the story wanted it to. I think its more incommon with video games though as it makes a nice alternate gameplay thing to have in.

LOL. Got me. 😅

But there’s more than that to it. I think there’s some strange default setting in the human mind that makes us want to correct mistakes. Maybe it’s all about setting the record straight, being correct or whatever.

In Star Trek IV, The Undiscovered Country, exactly that happened. It is kind of a unique scene, because it had to be a bitch to film.

The Undiscovered Country is VI. Star Trek IV is The Voyage Home. Both are great, anyways.

That's why I prefer hard SciFi like The Expanse books, where science is a main driver to life and motivations to drive the story.

THE EXPANSE

GO WATCH IT!

No stupid gimmicky "artificial gravity" horseshit, the "gravity" is caused by acceleration and deceleration.

Oh ok, got you

Ah, Murphy's Law in action.

Which is fucking cool because it's one of the few space travel things that really does work. Like if we can figure out the fuel/propulsion thing and some kind of equivalent to deflector shields (not for space battles but for all the random shit in space that could destory your ship in a collision, especially if we get up to relativistic speeds), we could have space travel where you can walk around normally on the ship.

Also the gravity increasing ships like Goku used in DBZ, so we could actually have someone doing extreme gravity training while en route to a big fight.

And it works for both acceleration and deceleration, only difference is you're either travelling up or down.

Also loved the special seats they used when doing combat maneuvers. ST didn't just make up artificial gravity (since their ships moved forwards rather than up), they had inertial dampeners, because the evasive maneuvers would have been much more dangerous than the shocks from getting hit.

ST is more rooted in science than SW, but parts of it are just as much fantasy as the force, which was depressing to realize when you're hoping for humanity to eventually go in that direction. The biggest human tech fantasy in the Expanse is an engine upgrade that gives improved thrust and efficiency. Not to light speed, but just by like an order of magnitude. And they've even got a brutally realistic scene about the discovery that was great world building imo.

Sounds expensive... what if we just chalked it up to magic?

Spin up the drum.

This is covered in the Attack Pattern Trunks web comic. If I remember correctly it works even when all power is disabled due to thermal power or some such, I'd have to go searching through all the episodes to cover it.

Gravy. You're thinking of gravy.

I mean, gravity is just acceleration anyway.

Weird fucking acceleration due to the curvature of spacetime and how shit moves through time. But still, just acceleration.

One is a great Star Trek movie. The other is a beloved comedy starring Star Trek people.

Thanks, Calvin's dad