To be fair, the station was built by Cardassians and they don’t seem like the type of people to give a shit about the disabled. I feel like they cull anyone unable to be useful to the government.
I’ve always thought that was a nice subtle visual reinforcement of the problems in Cardassian culture.
It’s such a basic courtesy to flatten or ramp areas like that.
And violating it is such asshole design. It fits the Cardassian vibe.
Plus, you know some Cardassian engineer got promoted for the money savings of having one-size-fits-nothing hull sections.
I recall moments in the first episode where Federation officers have to consciously remember to step over. It’s such a nice touch, and fits the vibe of the episode.
I might be giving too much credit, but the set and props designers in Trek do have a history of doing cool stuff like this that goes largely unnoticed.
Back in the day, Ivana Trump [wife #1] was the star of the show and Donnie was the chump who carried her bags. Donnie dumped her and became a big deal. In this case, T’Pring realized that if she was with Spock, she’d always be the second banana. It’s that simple.
Also, keep in mind that Stonn was a full Vulcan, whereas Spock was a half-breed. Vulcans are more than a little racist in that respect, and it didn’t help that Spock was always off cavorting with humans in Starfleet. Her choice of Stonn given the culture of Vulcan was pretty damn logical.
There’s a species of gecko that is virtually all females (and what few males exist are infertile), but which sometimes still mate with eachother (there’s no genetic transfer, it apparently can just stimulate their bodies to produce offspring or something). Ive got to wonder how those “homosexuality isn’t natural!” people would react to them.
Even if you’re able-bodied having to step over giant pointless raised ramps every 5 m must get annoying. It basically necessitates you have hover trolleys. You sure can’t use anything with wheels.
“Wait, the Bajorans somehow managed to install every hallway on the station upside down and you somehow only noticed when the entire thing was finished?”
“Yes, sir. Do you want us to execute them all?”
“No, I’m actually kind of impressed. Well do nothing to them; they earned this one. But do assign that jackass Dukat to the planet and move his office up here.”
“You want his office to be on a shoddily built orbital ore progressing facility instead of the planetary capital?”
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