the design of the death star and their security measures on board it is a testament to the arrogance of the Empire- no single little ship will be able to do any harm to such a mighty symbol of galactic power. and the Millenium falcon was thought to be un manned when they brought it in, if i remember correctly. but you'd think they would have had a security camera or something in the landing bay...
the Death Star engineers probably designed in safety measures around the reactor core, but greedy contractors, politicians, and military leaders decided to not put them in but told Palpatine that they were there to skim a few bucks for themselves. somehow, they managed to keep this hidden from Palpatine, since the second death star was even more poorly designed- instead of a meter wide photon torpedo (or whatever they called it) getting shot down a tube that was cleverly hidden out in the open at the end of a canyon that went around the entire equator of the space station, an ENTIRE FREIGHT SHIP with fighter escorts was able to fly into the reactor chamber at high speed, launch a missile at it, and fly AROUND it and out the same way they came in as it started to blow up..
as for the lack of basic safety in trek, that is a testament to the arrogance of Star Fleet officers thinking they can't get hurt doing anything, and the blind trust they put in things like force fields (testing a live weapon right next to the warp core)and the basic goodness in everyone's soul (letting strangers wander around the ship unescorted and unmonitored). they live in a universe where no one ever suffers, and technology- combined with whatever new radioactive subspace particle they happen to discover that week- will save you if you do get hurt.
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