Because the test requirements for Genesis were rigid to the point of inflexible.
Examples of Characters Doing Stupid Things
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It does seem to me that one of the criteria for a Genesis candidate should have been "no inhabited planets in the rest of the system, assuring that we won't violate the Prime Directive and cause indigenous life on them to develop odd religious explanations for the sudden existence of life on another planet in their star system". Which would have entailed at least taking a quick peek at the other worlds in the system.^ Right, only searching for planets that met certain criteria, which would leave out the majority of planets in any given system.
As I alluded to in my previous post, I think Gorkon may have been suffering from a condition in which the clotting factors in his blood were used up faster than they could stimulate the normal clotting cascade--something that happens frequently in the setting of trauma--which McCoy may have been referring to when he said, "His wounds are not closing." In this instance, applying pressure to the wounds may not have made much difference.
McCoy's decision to start chest compressions was likely spurred by his desire to ensure that Gorkon's vital organs were perfused in order to keep him alive longer, as he'd probably surmised there wasn't much he could do.
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As much as people like to use this reasoning, Picard and Stewart when through very much the same character shifts in real life.
Stewart as a person changed drastically over the course of the series.
It'd be no surprise that picard would loosen up drastically.
Except that's not Picard! And that's not Data or Worf with him, either! They're imposters, clearly.
Trek pretty much requires people to do stupid things every episode or movie. If Kirk raised the shields in WoK when he should, there'd be no movie. If Wesley didn't exist, there'd be no TNG.
The Joe Tormolen glove incident in The Naked Time. But he had a hidden death wish anyway.
I always assumed all the interference in the atmosphere would have prevented a transporter lock. Especially when they were still inside the cargo container.
Going outside would have helped, except they were already surrounded by Khan's group (and probably were so, from the moment they beamed down).
Quite the opposite, I think. If the criteria for not just the test planet but the entire test system were strict (and obviously they were, or else the Reliant would already have scored), then clearly the ship would never even consider visiting systems with civilizations in them, even if they had a desert world listed that might be worth a closer look.
With a sample of exactly one system for us to judge by, we may just as well say that the Reliant was hunting for planets in known systems only, such as Ceti Alpha. But Goldilocks known: not so well charted that a ship visit would add nothing to current knowledge, not so poorly charted that a mission there would turn out to be futile, no so well or poorly known that somebody might actually go there and have a look out of sheer prospecting interest and witness the Genesis test or its aftermath.
I have no trouble believing that the Reliant was flying with blinders on: they would be frustrated by a long hunt for a suitable world, and in no mood whatsoever to practice idle science. It's not as if Kirk and Spock would ever have done idle scanning of those star systems they had adventures in!
That's one of the unfortunate side effects of binge drinking of Romulan ale.
The other one, of course, is a popular party trick for Klingons: "Look, Grakh bleeds purple!"
I surmise going back to the pickup coordinates is the only thing that would have helped in that weather...
Hey, Joe didn't know about any contamination hazard when he took off that glove. Spock only realized there might be one after the harm was done - and apparently the stuff is really potent and fast-acting, at least on some victims.
Some people seem to think those suits were worn against contamination. But obviously they wouldn't be much good against such, what with not being sealed at all. However, they'd be nice for keeping out cold, and that the landing party did know to expect when beaming down.
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Although the person or persons were never shown on screen I think the desinger(s) of the Enterprise control consoles were incredibly stupid for not including an incredibly futuristic device called a "fuse" as a part of the system to keep them from overloading and exploding in the crew's faces whenever the ship gets hit.
Oh and the people who continued to develop warp core technology between the last TOS film and TNG....Since the warp core went from something that designed so it could take a lot of damage and not destroy the whole ship in the TOS era. To something that is apparently made out of fine crystal since it was always the first thing to fail in combat and caused the destruction of countless starships when it overloaded and exploded.
Oh and the people who continued to develop warp core technology between the last TOS film and TNG....Since the warp core went from something that designed so it could take a lot of damage and not destroy the whole ship in the TOS era. To something that is apparently made out of fine crystal since it was always the first thing to fail in combat and caused the destruction of countless starships when it overloaded and exploded.
Nah, what blows up in the control consoles are the fuses. They're made of a too-friable material, and when they overload they don't burn through, they explode.
Warp cores might have developed along the tech line as current internal combustion engines we use today. Early models were made of iron and steel, they could take a lot of punishment and still get you home. I even ran a VW engine home with three cylinders and a missing rotor in the distributor- cranked on the first try.
Today's engines are frail aluminum and a maze of computer components. Overheat it slightly and you have a warped cylinder head and car which would take $1,500 to get back on the street again.
The new engines are more powerful and take little fuel compared to the old ones, but there is a tech trade off. You get more capability but at the cost of robustness. The TOS and newer Trek drives are similar- you can go to warp 9.5 now but slight damage will be devastating.
Today's engines are frail aluminum and a maze of computer components. Overheat it slightly and you have a warped cylinder head and car which would take $1,500 to get back on the street again.
The new engines are more powerful and take little fuel compared to the old ones, but there is a tech trade off. You get more capability but at the cost of robustness. The TOS and newer Trek drives are similar- you can go to warp 9.5 now but slight damage will be devastating.
Here's one: Kirk (and Starfleet), not sending anyone to check on Khan and company for 20 freakin' years!
It would have been great to see them at least attempt to put the plan in motion, add some shots of cubes going dark and tumbling, then one by one they reboot and return to normal.
Wesley releasing nanites on the ship.
Wesley falling through a glass window when playing catch.
Wesley blowing up his classmate in The First Duty.
Wesley quitting starfleet. Just take a temporary leave of absence like Worf does every episode.
Geordi making Brams favorite linguini.
Geordi forgetting to clear his browser history before Brams looks at it.
Jellico making an enemy out of Riker.
Wesley falling through a glass window when playing catch.
Wesley blowing up his classmate in The First Duty.
Wesley quitting starfleet. Just take a temporary leave of absence like Worf does every episode.
Geordi making Brams favorite linguini.
Geordi forgetting to clear his browser history before Brams looks at it.
Jellico making an enemy out of Riker.
I'd say it was the other way around. What with Riker not following orders and allowing his love of Picard to cloud his judgement.
I wouldn't call this a stupid thing. I think it's an entirely reasonable course of action to let Hugh's individuality be the weapon against the Borg.
And it has the advantage of not being, you know, genocide.
Since the Borg are an amalgamation of enslaved species, it wouldn't be genocide. I think stopping that process would be doing the rest of the universe a favor. All those species who don't want to be assimilated.
It was a cop out designed to allow Picard to claim the high ground even though assimilating continued to go on for the foreseeable future.
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