Your mission for today

[james_davis_nicoll]

Design a starship with 1950s and early 1960s level technology.

Comments

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

If it's got a life support system for hundreds of people, it's likely to have a truly vast number of pipes and valves and boxes and tubes and tanks... Stuff that doesn't break down can go un-messed-with and unnoticed pretty much forever.

The best place to hide a needle is in a stack of needles.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

True. Implausible, but less implausible than the other possibilities. Not, I suspect, what the shows producers would want, though.