Star Trek peeves

[TheGoodStuff]

It just seems so pointless! Using a towel to mop up some spilled juice.

Why?

Random Trek Character: Troi: "Oh, damn, ruined a perfectly good towel. Oh well. Computer, replicate another perfectly good towel."

Yeah...but whats the point? You could just replica a cloth/tissues instead of marching off to your bedroom, to pick a clean and folded towel from a drawer, to march back to the spill, to clean it, then throw the towel in th replicator and then replicate another.

There must be another forumite here who see's why this is so irksome.

 

[T'Girl]

Just have the rug absorb the spill, and route the absorbed fluid into the recycle/replicator.

Why bother with a towel?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

It just seems so pointless! Using a towel to mop up some spilled juice.

Your house must be really sticky.

 

[tharpdevenport]

It's actually more baffling than a towel: aside from the fact one of the characters (I think Riker) stated the ship was self-cleaning, by the 24 century aren't there ways to instantly clean carpets? Heck, should it be liquid resistant? We have cloths now that are liquid-resistant. Heck, just in 2014 we had a guy announce a chemical you can ad to the wash that that also acts as a febric softner and then when dryed, makes what ever is washed resistant:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...hat-could-revolutionize-washing-your-clothes/

I guess baldness and carpet cleaning are still scientific puzzles hundreds of years from now.

 

[hux]

It just seems so pointless! Using a towel to mop up some spilled juice.

I've said the same thing to so many girlfriends. But they're adamant.

 

[Catarina]

I prefer the old paper towel and disposal method. If need be hide it under a newspaper HAHAH kidding. ooh I bet that'd soak some up...just enough to spare my towels.

 

[Catarina]

Applesauce went flying onto the carpet yesterday. "Now I see why you ask me to eat in the kitchen, mama." Why can't the child be like I was and just trust what mom said? Because it's foolish, right. Terrific kid. At least that questioning skill will come in handy later. *face palm* I will have to go get a shampoo rental tomorrow. That shit sticks to burber carpet. But as a band-aid I used a steamer and my paper towels. It got most of it out. Where are those magic SF issue towels when I need one....

 

[Paradise City]

I dunno if I was ever won over to the full-on Betazed mind reading jazz. The whole making Jean Luc go red as a beetroot when Mrs. T makes her appearance was always good for laughs of course. But shouldn't every power in the quadrant go kidnapping Betazeds to harness their unique skills? It'd offer that power a unique advantage. The Feds should be ruling the galaxy with access to powers like that. You'd think the Romulans would certainly be game. It's only really that Ferengi guy that wanted to cash in.

And on the subject of Romulans. It's not that plausible that the Feds are shunning the very handy piece of kit that is the cloaking device, treaty or no. I mean that stuff is certainly needed in the Dominion War.

 

[Triskelion]

Sleeping with your uniform on. And boots!

- And Paradise City's Dominion War thing.

 

[The Wormhole]

Sleeping with your uniform on. And boots!

More annoying to me is how many characters sleep above the blanket and comforter. Why are they even bothering with bed clothes if they aren't going to use them? It actually makes the Klingons sleeping on bare shelves look logical and practical.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Sleeping with your uniform on. And boots!

More annoying to me is how many characters sleep above the blanket and comforter. Why are they even bothering with bed clothes if they aren't going to use them? It actually makes the Klingons sleeping on bare shelves look logical and practical.

I always figured that at such times, people may be off-duty and want to take a nap, but they're not yet in their regular sleep cycles.

 

[Triskelion]

Conspicuously Missing Technologies:

Hologrid manual power switches
Surge Protectors
Seatbelts
Turbolift brakes
Toilets (what, transporters are never down)?
Security Cameras
Watches

 

[The Wormhole]

I always figured that at such times, people may be off-duty and want to take a nap, but they're not yet in their regular sleep cycles.

But then you have people who change into their pyjamas and still sleep above the covers.

 

[cultcross]

Conspicuously Missing Technologies:

Hologrid manual power switches
Surge Protectors
Seatbelts
Turbolift brakes
Toilets (what, transporters are never down)?
Security Cameras
Watches

Toilets existed, we just didn't see them. Like most shows, in fact! But they appear on the E-D blueprints for example.

Security cameras - inconsistent sensors are another Trek peeve. A ship's sensors can detect sub atomic particles from hundreds of kilometres away but can't find a grown human on board the ship if they take their comm badge off?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Conspicuously Missing Technologies:

Hologrid manual power switches
Surge Protectors
Seatbelts
Turbolift brakes
Toilets (what, transporters are never down)?
Security Cameras
Watches

Watches are out-of-date today. Ever tried asking somebody for the time? They whip out their cellphone. It's been that way for years now.

We did see what you could say was a security camera, in one episode of TNI. We also saw seatbelts in a shuttle in one episode of TNG (I think Nemesis also had a seatbelt scene, but I think it was deleted); the current or last Caption This contest has a screengrab of it.

 

[Captain Rob]

Seat belts are somewhat pointless when you are sitting in a non anchored chair.
As for a self cleaning starship. Troi should have had some little machines come whizzing out of a cabinet to clean up the mess. Like Zorg's machines in his office in "The Fifth Element".

 

[FormerLurker]

Conspicuously Missing Technologies:

Hologrid manual power switches
Surge Protectors
Seatbelts
Turbolift brakes
Toilets (what, transporters are never down)?
Security Cameras
Watches

There were turbolift brakes. They only deployed once, though, that I recall. In the episode Disaster, when Picard got trapped in one with three kids. The reason the turbolift stopped in mid shaft was the brakes. It fell when they failed.

 

[Drone]

More annoying to me is how many characters sleep above the blanket and comforter. Why are they even bothering with bed clothes if they aren't going to use them? It actually makes the Klingons sleeping on bare shelves look logical and practical.

I don't know, but it might just show how more civilized Starfleet is than other races if we look at your comparison as if it's part of a grand universal spectrum. Would you be so callously dismissive of the Feds if we saw a race that slept in their clothes bureaus like Kramer had his Japanese visitors do? Or sleeping under a desk like George himself? It's all just a matter of perspective.

 

[C.E. Evans]

But then you have people who change into their pyjamas and still sleep above the covers.

Not that uncommon for people who don't have cold bedrooms. I usually (but admittedly not always) sleep above my covers during the summer.

 

[Silvercrest]

There were turbolift brakes. They only deployed once, though, that I recall. In the episode Disaster, when Picard got trapped in one with three kids. The reason the turbolift stopped in mid shaft was the brakes. It fell when they failed.

The turbolift should have gravity, obviously. But there's no reason at all for the shaft to have it.