Rewatching

You mean like Specter Of The Gun or A Fistful Of Datas?

 

I think so

 

I think, as members of starfleet, they need to keep fit to meet the requirements for the job.

 

I don't appreciate the anachronisms, like when the bad guy says: "Who is he talking to on that little box?"

Since, he's never seen such a box nor been explained what it's for, how does he know that he's talking to anyone? For all he know it could be some kind of amulet and the guy was reciting an incantation or something. In fact he's more likely to think it's the latter than the former.

 

Amulets and incantations? This is the wild west, not a fantasy novel.

 

This is not the twentieth century either; the telephone was about a hundred years in the future, give or take twenty years.

And the first telephone was far from being a little box that you carried around with you.

 

The humans in this episode had been kidnapped and enslaved by space aliens who had superior technology, including the ability to teleport, so the humans would naturally go for a technological explanation rather than a magical one.

 

They were only enslaved for a few months and I doubt the aliens taught them how to use their own equipment before being killed or reduced to second class people. For three hundred years the most complicated equipment one of them had ever seen was a revolver... which of course is idiotic. How would random people pulled from Earth have the knowledge to make a revolver, from scratch, let alone the capability of putting together the complex industry that was needed to make one. This whole story stinks.

 

They also have horses, and the bartender has a photo of his ancestor. Obviously the aliens didn't just kidnap individuals, they scooped up an entire town. And old west towns often had gunsmiths.

Y'know, it's okay to say you just don't like an episode, without inventing phoney "reasons".

 

It's also ok to make use of your common sense:

1) What would be the point of wasting enormous resources scooping up tons and tons of bricks, equiment and the rest, when all they needed was the workforce of the people?

2) While the disappearing of random people here and there might go unnoticed in the old west. The evaporation of a whole town, definitely wouldn't and it would be part of our history. Since it isn't then one can only assume that this is a parallel universe independent from ours.

You know, it's OK to say that you just don't care if a story makes any sense. You don't have to invent phoney explanations for things that have none.

 

In fiction, the explanations are believable in proportion to the desire to believe them.

 

What was the point of having this discussion then?

 

I was hoping for more reasonableness, less vituperation.

 

Maybe you should focus on the former and refrain from being the source of the latter then.