@evil_genius:
here's a glimpse of what I'm up against.
To give you some idea, the second officer is in command of the bridge. But I keep getting urged to show the helm officer--an ensign junior grade--backing the ship away and raising the shields on her own authority. Too much initiative for someone with not enough rank. That idea has come up four times, and been shot down each time.
And when the subject of the Ops console exploding came up, I immediately got a description of why that's a bad idea (never mind the many times explosive instrumentation has happened in canon, justified or not it's there), and increasingly contrived alternative ways to injure the Ops officer, a necessity for the next scene after this.
Needless to say, I wasn't feeling 100% confident about my idea until these "ideas" started showing up...then I realized how solid mine was by comparison. But I still wanted a second opinion to make sure this scene as scripted would pass muster. The saner crowd around here proved that it will
