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Originally Posted by novaderrik
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..
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Not that I think the DS marks I or II were well designed, but to be fair, the second DS was not yet complete. There were probably structural incompletions everywhere, allowing for the entry and egress of the Falcon.
With respect to ST, the fundamental safety issues don't appear to have been appropriately vetted on the Enterprise (any generation), given how isolated the ship would be in general during its mission. Consoles exploding (no fuses or circuit breakers), safety malfunctions (holodecks, anyone?), presence of odd barriers (the horseshoe railing on Enterprise D, for instance, requiring Worf to run down the side and jump over it to defend the command crew - and for those who say, he could just fire from his station, the response is - only if the command crew knew to stay seated).
