Timeline for Why is gravity pulling the crew down they're in freefall?

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Feb 5, 2015 at 18:30	comment	added	Tango		@Nerrolken: According to the tech manual, that's not likely to happen. In short, it was made clear the new system would not fail. (Basically they wanted to make it quite clear to writers to not try to write null gravity scenes, but that's out of universe.)
Feb 5, 2015 at 18:25	comment	added	Nerrolken		+1. And regarding your line "it seems the early model Enterprise had a different system for gravity" - Not necessarily: in that scene the power wasn't just failing, it was failing and surging and rerouting, etc. For all we know, this Enterprise might have the same system, it was just under duress rather than simply being unpowered. Even the Enterprise-D might experience odd effects if it had sustained such heavy damage to its gravity controllers, while entering a gravity well at an unusual and rapidly changing angle, with intermittent power and engineers actively rerouting the damaged systems.
May 31, 2013 at 10:04	comment	added	Lèse majesté		Precisely, they specifically mentioned that artificial gravity was malfunctioning, and if their inertial dampeners were similarly malfunctioning, then the random rotation of the ship would have been felt by anyone who wasn't in the exact center of gravity of the ship, just as a pilot/occupant of a plane in an uncontrolled stall would be tossed around if they weren't buckled in.
May 21, 2013 at 3:21	history	answered	Tango	CC BY-SA 3.0