Why does it always seem that just before things go horribly wrong there is a brief moment of recognition but by then it is just too late to do anything about it?
"Yes, Yes, I know the oxygen is getting low, but that siren is not helping me think," she shouted to the computer.
The computer did, of course, not answer. The newer more sophisticated models were equipped with voice response, but that really was just overpriced bells and whistles. Such a computer would not have detected the oxygen leak any sooner, nor would it have been able to come up with any solutions. After all that was why people were needed to run the ships, to solve unexpected problems. Sure a computer could run basic systems, and navigate, but it couldn't wrap tape around a faulty wire, or tie down cargo that shifted during a rough take off.
It had started as a tiny leak in the rear cargo bay. Something that required her attention, but these thing happen, and it certainly was not life threatening, at first.
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