Weird or "no shit" moments in Star Trek

[Tracy Trek]

I don't recall where I first read this, but supposedly there's a back door to Janeway's Ready Room that leads directly to one of the corridors. So it's possible to get there without having to enter via the bridge.

I think that corridor was seen in the episode Shattered.

Perhaps the idea was lost along with things like fuses so consoles don't blow up when they get as power surge, seat belts so people don't get thrown out of their seats.

Or somehow using a splint if all your fancy technology is broken "isn't practicing medicine" in the episode Contagion.

 

[BlueStuff]

In "A Taste of Armageddon", a disintegration machine is witnessed being used. Spock remarks "an entrance, Captain, but no exit. They go in... but they do not come out."

This seemed an unnecessary thing to point out, especially given that everyone had just seen the same thing he did. I wonder if Spock made the same comment when he first saw someone use a turbolift?

 

[Agony_Boothb]

"In the Perfect Mate" when Riker walks about from the lady why does he contact the bridge to basically tell them he is going off to the holodeck to masturbate? If they need to contact him I am sure they can just tap their combage and connect to him.

Jason

Riker strikes me as the type of guy who would want everyone to know when he was masturbating.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I can accept Picard being a little redundant in his speech, but what bothers me is everyone reacts on the word “baby” instead of “pregnant”. It’s like they have to be told what pregnant means, which educated Starfleet professionals should already know.

That's what the last TNG movie should've been about. I would gladly buy a ticket to watch Picard give "the talk" to his entire bridge crew.

Riker strikes me as the type of guy who would want everyone to know when he was masturbating.

 

[at Quark's]

Sometimes I think Worf is just someone who has drunk the Klingon cool-aid when it comes to Klingon myths. He follows honor more strickly than most Klingons.
Jason

Someone once commented that Worf is typical of someone who left culture A to live in culture B, but tries to embrace his 'cultural heritage' by much more strictly embracing the "rules" of culture A than actual members of culture A would do themselves, imagining he comes from something that no longer exists in reality- if it ever really existed in that form at all.

 

[Farscape One]

He may even do it in a log entry so Starfleet itself is aware.

Riker: First Officer's log, Stardate 45678.9. After many hours of working with Lt. Sophie Dee, I feel it is necessary to find the governor... and shake hands with him. I am happy that the ship can clean itself.

Riker: First Officer's log, supplemental. After spending time Ambassador Scarlett Johannesen, I have learned a new phrase. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me." I am going to the holodeck to see how true this is.

Riker: First Officer's log, Stardate 44556.6. I am masturbating tonight.

 

[Discofan]

"Cause And Effect": Why can't they do both???

Why can't they decompress the main shuttlebay AND engage the tractor beam?

Which Btw is exactly what they did in the end...

Another episode whose resolution is based on a stupid limitation!

Also, Data based his assumption that Riker's idea would work on the fact that his didn't!! Which is a really weird way of reasoning.

Also, Riker's remark that moving back could be exactly what led them to the trap is stupid. If they move back based on the fact that they are in a time loop then it couldn't be what led them to the trap THE FIRST TIME!!!

 

[JoeZhang]

Times Squared - Picard just flat out murders his mentally disturbed duplicate.

I always wondered what would have happened if the body hadn't disappeared...

 

[Discofan]

Times Squared - Picard just flat out murders his mentally disturbed duplicate.

I always wondered what would have happened if the body hadn't disappeared...

What if BOTH had disappeared? Anything's possible when you don't have to justify yourself.


This episode had only one positive aspect for me. It made me check who El Baz was.

(It's an American Scientist)

 

[penguin44]

"Cause And Effect": Why can't they do both???

Why can't they decompress the main shuttlebay AND engage the tractor beam?

Which Btw is exactly what they did in the end...

Another episode whose resolution is based on a stupid limitation!

Also, Data based his assumption that Riker's idea would work on the fact that his didn't!! Which is a really weird way of reasoning.

Also, Riker's remark that moving back could be exactly what led them to the trap is stupid. If they move back based on the fact that they are in a time loop then it couldn't be what led them to the trap THE FIRST TIME!!!

Well they only did the shuttlebay on the last loop. No tractor beam, but yes I agree both at the same time would have given them more clearance .

 

[penguin44]

"Contagion", when they turn the Enterprise off and on again to purge the Iconian virus and act as though doing so is some revolutionary computer science

Yes, my wife and I were watching TNG and she had never seen the show before. Just before they did this, she said "Have they tried turning it off and on again?" We had been watching IT crowd.

 

[Discofan]

Well they only did the shuttlebay on the last loop. No tractor beam, but yes I agree both at the same time would have given them more clearance .

The point is that they should have done both! The whole episode is based on a pointless limitation.

I mean when you're on the Titanic and see the Iceberg you don't think "Should I steer left or reverse the propeller?" You do BOTH... and hit the iceberg anyway since it was too late...

 

[at Quark's]

Commander Remmick's exploding head. Far too cheesy to be creepy in any way, but still I'm weirded out by this level of gore, I simply don't expect that from Trek ...

 

[Discofan]

Commander Remmick's exploding head. Far too cheesy to be creepy in any way, but still I'm weirded out by this level of gore, I simply don't expect that from Trek ...

It was done on the cheap. I believe they put some ground meat in a bag and made it explode with a firecracker or something... I mean a bunch of kids on the street could have done that!!!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

In Wrath of Khan, after the Reliant's initial attack, Kirk says, "Damage report!" and Spock just goes over to the wall schematic of the Enterprise, points to where it's blinking, and says, "They knew exactly where to hit us." It's the most half-assed "report" ever. (3:40 in the video below)

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[Discofan]

In Wrath of Khan, after the Reliant's initial attack, Kirk says, "Damage report!" and Spock just goes over to the wall schematic of the Enterprise, points to where it's blinking, and says, "They knew exactly where to hit us." It's the most half-assed "report" ever. (3:40 in the video below)

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You're so right! I never noticed it before.

 

[Farscape One]

After the light show of "Samaritan Snare"...

Pakled: "We are not smart."


Really? I had no idea...

 

[Tenacity]

I mean when you're on the Titanic and see the Iceberg you don't think "Should I steer left or reverse the propeller?" You do BOTH... and hit the iceberg anyway since it was too late...

I wonder if the rudder would have been more effective if they hadn't reversed the props? No churning water around the rudder.

Or if the bridge officer had ordered the turn immediately after receiving the look-out's report, instead of walking out onto the observation deck, looking for himself, and then ordering the turn.

 

[Greg Cox]

Someone once commented that Worf is typical of someone who left culture A to live in culture B, but tries to embrace his 'cultural heritage' by much more strictly embracing the "rules" of culture A than actual members of culture A would do themselves, imagining he comes from something that no longer exists in reality- if it ever really existed in that form at all.

I sometimes wonder if Spock was the same way: that he tries too hard to be more Vulcan than Vulcans.

 

[Discofan]

I wonder if the rudder would have been more effective if they hadn't reversed the props? No churning water around the rudder.

Or if the bridge officer had ordered the turn immediately after receiving the look-out's report, instead of walking out onto the observation deck, looking for himself, and then ordering the turn.

Given that it's a well-analyzed event, it's likely that simulations of most (if not all) eventualities have been done and somewhere are the answers to these interesting possibilities. From what I hear they couldn't have avoided the iceberg even if they had reacted faster, however, it's possible that the ship could have been less damaged and NOT sink (remember that Titanic was equipped with an anti-sinking device and that it failed because too much of the hull had been damaged), giving ample time to save everyone.