Headscratchers / Star Trek Lower Decks S 4 E 02 I Have No Bones And I Must Flee

• Just how many promotions has Rutherford turned down?
  • At least two.
• And did he really not get promoted for saving the day last episode because he broke Voyager?
  • His actions could have rendered Voyager un-usable for display.
• Why is there a crew quarters sandwiched between two holodecks that has thin walls which are unsuitable to block the sound caused by active programs?
  • Why aren't the windows facing the nacelles filtered by default?... Actually, why aren't all the windows? There are plenty of dangerously bright objects in space... Also, why have windows?
    • Because people can only spend a limited amount of time in an enclosed environment without windows before it psychologically affects them (a real-life problem for submariners).
    • Sometimes the only explanation is Rule of Funny, perhaps that room was originally not there/something else and was added by a badly thought out refit?
    • Starfleet's saucer and nacelle design style is really modular, and the window and nacelle arrangement on the Cali class was probably caused by Starfleet using a more or less off the shelf design and not really worrying about how it functioned when arranged in that ship configuration. Plus it isn't really big deal, as Rutherford shows, if you know enough to dial down the settings. As to why the windows have multi settings, there are a lot of reasons it could be beneficial to monitor the nacelles or ship exterior in real view rather than in sunshade view, plus there are species in Starfleet who need that high brightness settings as their own comfort default. The sunshade option not being turned on when Boimler moved in could either be that the default room settings is everything turned off to allow the new personnel to modify them to their own preference, or that the previous occupant was a high-light spectrum species member and just left it like that and nobody bothered to change it. The real Headscratcher is how someone who is as big a ship nerd and rule follower like Boimler didn't know that the viewport settings could be altered like that.

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