"I hate computers! Why do they always blow up when I use them?"
"Have you people never heard of FUSES?!"
— John Crichton, Farscape
"Barf, take Tactical. Lt. Gaudy; the helm. Ensign Cannonfodder, you're on that console that's always exploding."
— Captain Pinchhard, Sev Trek: Pus in Boots
"Worf and Picard are flying around the sky. Somehow, damage to the shuttle causes a nozzle to turn on in the background and begin spraying out a benign white smoke into the cabin, like they were on the set of a cheap science-fiction movie."
"The Excelsiorprise is rocked once more, causing the usual steam and sparks to fly from the consoles. I swear, this franchise has been the life-blood for the steam and sparks industry. Have they forgotten how to make circuit breakers in the future?"
"I will put surge suppressors in the circuitry of my ship, so that a shot striking some distant portion does not cause a control panel on the bridge to explode."
A loud scream built in the engines, smoke filled the cabin, and a box of sparklers some idiot had stored inside a console blazed into life.
— Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians
The command centre's ten eight-bit computers blow up simultaneously, with huge flames pouring out of them, probably improving their performance.
— Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Unrealistatrons
Zek: Good thing we installed those safeties, huh? We could've had people exploding and shit by now. Now we just got a bunch of dying monitors.
Retz: The 'exploding and shit' is going to happen either way when 'Vadamee gets his guns into range. Our shields can't take the kind of firepower his Carrier is packing. *one of his monitors fizzles out and dies in front of him* Ugh, damn it, now we're flying half blind.
Zek: Well better than no safeties at all and YOU being completely blind. You know, because you'd be dead.
Retz: The 'exploding and shit' is going to happen either way when 'Vadamee gets his guns into range. Our shields can't take the kind of firepower his Carrier is packing. *one of his monitors fizzles out and dies in front of him* Ugh, damn it, now we're flying half blind.
Zek: Well better than no safeties at all and YOU being completely blind. You know, because you'd be dead.
"They must've been right next to the console when it exploded."
— Tom Paris, Star Trek: Voyager premiere "Caretaker", regarding the recently deceased doctor and nurse.
Kelly: Somebody put that out!
Ed: What happened to automatic fire suppression?
Alara: That's the panel that caught fire!
Ed: What happened to automatic fire suppression?
Alara: That's the panel that caught fire!
— The Orville, "Krill"
