MangyTiger writes:
Hope they remember the seat belts - the Federation never seemed to work that out in hundreds of years
In episode "Skin of Evil", the episode where Tasha died (damn the script writers), they used a shuttle to go down to the alien planet to investigate an unknown energy reading. On their way down, we had a view of them inside the shuttle, which shows that they were all wearing seatbelts. This was the first episode ever in star trek history where seat belts were shown to be used by star trekers.
Suprisingly, the next time seat belts were seen to be used was in Star Trek Voyager. Can't remember the episode name off the top of my head. Mr. Paris rides the delta flyer to try to reach warp 10 where theoretically the delta flyer would enter "hyperspace" and could travel anywhere in space-time. While flying, Paris is seen for a brief moment with seat belts.
I guess they finally caught on and officially gave Picard seat belts on his big chair in the bridge of the battle scarred Enterprise at the end of Star Trek Nemesis.
Yes, I hate myself for knowing these things.