As true as that is, it's still one of those narrative conveniences that makes me chuckle. The sort of thing that screams "episode is ending" that forces everything to line up just right.
WTF moments in Star Trek
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Except that one insight made absolutely no sense. It’s like saying “The killer had a glass of wine. The killer is a somalier!”
Season 7 of TNG had quite a few WTF moments, didn’t it? “Masks” was a full WTF hour!
Yeah, between Masks, Phantasms, Sub Rosa, Emergence and Genesis TNG S7 certainly has no shortage of WTF episodes.
While I love the episode (truly, I think it's an underrated gem)...it is a bit of a WTF that Picard's answer to Nagilum's "experiments in death" is to destroy the entire ship in "Where Silence Has Lease."
I mean, I suppose if 1/2 the crew is potentially going to die as horribly or worse than the poor red shirt on the bridge did, it's at least a quicker death. But man....that's a tough pill to swallow. I guess it's a little like Lorca blowing up the Buran to avoid the crew being brought to Kronos as war prisoners.
I mean, I suppose if 1/2 the crew is potentially going to die as horribly or worse than the poor red shirt on the bridge did, it's at least a quicker death. But man....that's a tough pill to swallow. I guess it's a little like Lorca blowing up the Buran to avoid the crew being brought to Kronos as war prisoners.
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In the current Star Trek comic, something weird happens and Tom Paris takes a selfie. With a cell phone.
...but then, I remembered: it's Tom Paris. It would be perfectly in-character for him to have and use such an ancient twenty-first-century device. Nothing else was said about it, I don't know if that was the idea or if they got it right by accident.
...but then, I remembered: it's Tom Paris. It would be perfectly in-character for him to have and use such an ancient twenty-first-century device. Nothing else was said about it, I don't know if that was the idea or if they got it right by accident.
Given what we now know about...which version of Lorca that was....I'm not sure we can take anything he says at face value.
DaiMons Tarr and Bok were creditably threatening, but the Ferengi landing party in “The Last Outpost” was a disaster. It’s sort of funny how it undid Tarr’s effort in the same episode.I think an interesting WTF moment was Picard inferring that the Ferengi would eat their enemies in "Encounter at Farpoint" and then, a mere 3-4 episodes later, we got these guys:
I think an interesting WTF moment was Picard inferring that the Ferengi would eat their enemies in "Encounter at Farpoint" and then, a mere 3-4 episodes later, we got these guys:
Speaking of WTF Moments...
Best outer space weapon EVAR.Speaking of WTF Moments...
For that, I'll take the personal photon torpedo launcher, seen at 1:51.
Remember the last exchange...
WESLEY: "He sure held that bluff till the last second, didn't he, sir?"
RIKER: "Was he bluffing?"
We never know for sure.
I can’t imagine a more imprecise weapon.
Worf's space bazooka that shoots cotton candy bolts is nothing to shake a stick at either, gentlebeings.
Speaking of WTF Moments...
Every time I see those whips, which is this episode and "ACQUISITION", I can't help but think of Devo...
I never really looked at that thing closely before. The design doesn’t seem like Federation technology, or Klingon for that matter. Maybe something he picked up along the way on DS9?Worf's space bazooka that shoots cotton candy bolts is nothing to shake a stick at either, gentlebeings.
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