Timeline for How does Starfleet measure night and day aboard ships
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| Mar 16, 2019 at 20:50 | comment | added | Blaze | VERY silly. The whole business requires a sizeable suspension of disbelief. That all the senior (and more experienced and knowledgeable) officers are all awake at the same time. It is truly considerate and polite of any Romulans or Dominion ships (or any totally unexpected, unexplainable mysteries of deep space) to only attack the Starfleet vessel during "the middle of the day shift". | |
| Feb 10, 2018 at 18:21 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | Why dim the lights on the bridge? Is someone sleeping there? | |
| Feb 10, 2018 at 17:40 | comment | added | RedOculus | you are saying an inconvenience for a skeleton shift is more important than overall health of the crew. the link I shared shows that people don't know when to sleep without sensory input. furthermore, you have to consider that times of less activity are good for resource management ( a big deal in voyager) and maintenance windows to perform planned downtime work. | |
| Feb 10, 2018 at 1:05 | comment | added | Harry Johnston | @RedOculus, yes, but on a spaceship there's no need for everybody to have the same lighting cycle. Everybody on the night shift is worse off as a result. | |
| Feb 10, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | RedOculus | lighting cycles help sleep cycles. here is a link about some studies showing how sensory input effects sleep cycles. It would be for this reason that starships have a graveyard shift. slumberwise.com/science/could-you-survive-an-endless-night | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 23:55 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | Dimming the lights in your individual quarters, fine. Dimming the lights on the bridge (as they do) is silly. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 22:52 | comment | added | Kevin | "Now, realistically this is silly; you'd expect a watch system where activity is pretty constant around the clock." - Which part? Dimming the lights helps improve everyone's sleep cycles, the senior staff need to sleep some of the time, and following the same routines you did on Earth (or your own home planet) is probably easier for everyone. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 22:25 | history | answered | Keith Morrison | CC BY-SA 3.0 |