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WTF moments in Star Trek
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Isn't "Arena", which takes place years later, Starfleet's first official meeting with the Gorn?
Nothing in the episode implies that.
KIRK: Anything on intelligent life forms?
SPOCK: Nothing specific, Captain. Unscientific rumours only. More like space legends.
And
"Weaponless, I face the creature the Metrons called a Gorn. Large, reptilian. Like most humans, I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the Captain of a starship, like myself, undoubtedly a dangerously clever opponent."
Seems like there's no record of them prior to this to me. Or their ships, which they had no record of as well.
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Fits what we've seen so far in SNW.
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And yet the Gorn insist that the Federation is in the wrong and encroaching on their territory and McCoy supports this. The episode is inconsistent on the question. How can the Federation know nothing and then be encroaching on their territory.
The Federation may not have known. It was the Gorn captain that claimed this, with McCoy simply asking the question, "Could that be true? If so, then we could be in the wrong."
McCoy didn't support it, he simply gave the question a consideration followed by a reasonable conclusion. If the case the Gorn made was accurate.
McCoy didn't support it, he simply gave the question a consideration followed by a reasonable conclusion. If the case the Gorn made was accurate.
I think you need to watch the episode again.
Probably.
Technically, any incident which triggers Captain Freeman to blow her stack! 
"A Night in Sickbay" was one long WTF moment. Consider...
- A decon chamber three-way, and that didn't include the dog.
- Phlox's tongue.
- A treadmill pissing contest.
- A doggy funeral.
- Vanishing underwear.
- An escaped bat, and some very adept bat-catching.
- A taxidermy juice dog. No, I didn't come up with that one.
- Dreads. And a chainsaw.
- And let's not forget the captain of Starfleet's flagship acting like a sulky 9-year-old for most of the episode.
- A decon chamber three-way, and that didn't include the dog.
- Phlox's tongue.
- A treadmill pissing contest.
- A doggy funeral.
- Vanishing underwear.
- An escaped bat, and some very adept bat-catching.
- A taxidermy juice dog. No, I didn't come up with that one.
- Dreads. And a chainsaw.
- And let's not forget the captain of Starfleet's flagship acting like a sulky 9-year-old for most of the episode.
Oh, thought of another!
"The moment" in Lower Deck's A Mathematically Perfect Redemption.
That was... weird. To say the very least. Actually, the very definition of a Trek "WTF" moment for me if ever there was one.
"The moment" in Lower Deck's A Mathematically Perfect Redemption.
Where Peanut Hamper and Rawda first become intimate.
That was... weird. To say the very least. Actually, the very definition of a Trek "WTF" moment for me if ever there was one.
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While we're at it, most ENT decon scenes would qualify for this thread. But I want to nominate the very first one in Broken Bow, because A) it's one of the dumbest and most gratuitous iirc, as Trip oils T'Pol in places she apparently can't reach like her butt and her ears, and B) being the first one worsened its impact.
Back then when it originally aired, there was a lot in that episode that made me instantly dislike the new show, but that scene was the killing blow when I just couldn't take it seriously anymore. It's so strange watching Connor Trinneer and Jolene Blalock having to play it straight as if they didn't know like everyone else--including the audience--what's really going on here. And in my opinion, both actors look very unhappy in this scene.
I abandoned ENT a few episodes in, after the Trip pregnancy/nipple episode I think. Today, after several rewatches, I have more appreciation for ENT (esp. thanks to season 4), but back then... it was rough. Admittedly, had I been around for the first four episodes of TNG, I'd probably have given up on that show too.
To be honest, I think that's how Archer is depicted most of the time. ANiS took it to another level though, as if that entire episode was written with the sole purpose to make Archer look bad. The writers must have hated him, who were they again? ...oh, right.
Aah, the gel and mood lighting. More gel, please. More. More. Rub it harder. Behind the ears, too:
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