Star Trek: The Next Generation : Starship Mine

As far back as the Kirk era, shipboard sensors have been capable of detecting individual life forms on the surface of a planet while the ship was in parking orbit, hundreds of miles away.

Couldn't space dock have detected that there were people still aboard the Enterprise before starting the baryon sweep?

Were they actively checking for anyone?

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Were they actively checking for anyone?

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Obviously they weren't, because they came very close to killing JLP.

My point is that for an extremely hazardous maintenance procedure, you'd think that they would implement some reasonable safety precautions, and that it would have been automatic, integral to the design of the contraption that did the baryon sweeping, and not capable of being disabled. This is elementary safety engineering.

Except, of course, in that case there would have been no story.

I think you're overlooking the fact both staff on the ground and those sent to the ship were part of the theft job. Team on the ship says "we're beaming off now the ship is empty". Ground crew acknowledge this so that the sweep can begin. With this there was no need for anyone to be doing any monitoring.

Put it this way the enterprise sensors can detect Romulans de-cloaking but if the crew are all in bed the ship will get cut to ribbons pretty quickly.

The baryon sweep machine should have an integral, always-on, automatic interlock that automatically looks for life forms in the sweep field and automatically shuts off and locks out the beam if any are detected. No depending on ground crews that could be incompetent, attention deficient, drunk, sleepy, or murderous.

The concept of undefeatable automatic safety interlocks is universal in modern engineering, and should be in the 24th century as well.

But again, as I said before, then we wouldn't have a story.

And the computer could do all the beaming without O'Brien and the warp core could maintain itself without Geordi but you don't have much of a show..

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that could be incompetent, attention deficient, drunk, sleepy, or murderous.

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WOW I hope you aren't a hiring manager with that mentality!

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The concept of undefeatable automatic safety interlocks is universal in modern engineering, and should be in the 24th century as well.

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And in Brothers it states the bridge has multiple safety systems to prevent problems with life support however Data was able to bypass them.

You seem to be arguing and possibly just for the sake of argument against the Star Trek philosophy that people for the most part work hard and do the right thing.

Well to run a baryon sweep, a terykick generator has to charge up for a few hours creating an inverse decatrionic field in a radius of 100,000 km which interferes with scanning technology.

There's always some technobabble reason why they can't beam somebody somewhere or run normal scans or something. They just forgot to do that this time.