Tell that to the script writers.
Riker was distracted with the problem of the week & he under estimated the Rogue Ferengi's to the point where they were able to take over the ship.
What is your personal head canon?
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In other words... Riker and the crew looked like buffoons in "Rascals".
Yes!
As great as Riker is as a Leader/Future Captain, he still has "Faults" & his "Off Days".
Consider this one of his "Whoopsies".
A 'Whopsie' done by you or me would be like dropping tomato sauce on the counter.
In this case, a 'whoopsie' nearly got 1,000 people killed or used as slave labor. Big difference, and not exactly a 'whoopsie'.
In this case, a 'whoopsie' nearly got 1,000 people killed or used as slave labor. Big difference, and not exactly a 'whoopsie'.
That's the "Golden Era" for you in TNG.
How many times has the USS Enterprise been nearly captured by bad guys through one method or another?
It's just a continuation of the bad security aboard Enterprises going back to Season 1 of TOS. Lazarus, a man who is obviously mentally troubled and plagued with spastic, unstable behavior, is allowed to run unfettered all over Kirk's ship until dilithium crystals are stolen and an entire engineering chamber is set ablaze.
That's not a trick; that's poor delegation.
Plus the flagship of the Federation under enemy control, and all the weapons it carries as a exploration vessel.
Or even as early as "MUDD'S WOMEN".
They were able to steal a communicator and give it to Mudd and he was able to make that bargain with the miners and cause that mayhem.
They were able to steal a communicator and give it to Mudd and he was able to make that bargain with the miners and cause that mayhem.
It happened, the man isn't flawless.
Don't get me wrong, I love Captain Riker, but he's not perfect by any means.
That should be something every vessel & facility in StarFleet can learn to improve upon.
Don't make it so easy to infiltrate & cause problems.
This reminds me of one of my favorite jokes from Community:
Britta: "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty."
Shirley: "...You can excuse racism?"
Same here.
And the way Odo did it, with his smile and how he just happened to have that list on his desk at that moment...
Priceless.
Odo is thinking, "And here I thought we had weird shit happen ON DS9. You Enterprise people....just....wow."
exactly, that was a PR cruise likely ordered by the chief of starfleet operations
New Trekkie here! Just finished Enterprise, and my first headcannon is that Elizabeth T'Less Tucker never actually dies; Daniels saves her (somehow) and recruits her as the perfect human-vulcan hybrid temporal agent! Just imagine T'Pol's logic coupled with Trip's emotion and 'raw' approach, take that and add years of training, but no knowledge about her real origins... Maybe someday I'll write a fanfic on that! 
I don't think steal, one of the women either talked or sexed the communicator from a crew member.
"Clifford, when you take something that doesn't belong to you, they call that stealing, you know." - The Rocketeer.
Something I only just thought of, but rather like:
The real reason that no Romulan or Klingon time-mission ever succeeded in majorly changing Federation history — despite multiple attempts — is that the oldest known time-active species in nearby space, the Vedala, ran interference and blocked such attempts.
The real reason that no Romulan or Klingon time-mission ever succeeded in majorly changing Federation history — despite multiple attempts — is that the oldest known time-active species in nearby space, the Vedala, ran interference and blocked such attempts.
There's a InterStellar StarShip Company that is selling a fundamental SpaceShip design that is highly configurable.
It's been used at least 25x in Trek History as a alien ship of the week.
The most famous being the Husnock WarShip and as the "Core Ship" in the Pakled ClumpShips.
It's been redressed so many times that there must be a very old StarShip company that is on par with CEC (Corellian Engineering Corporation) in Star Wars.
That's got to be the in-universe reason as to why that design is seeen all over the place and across time.
It's been used at least 25x in Trek History as a alien ship of the week.
The most famous being the Husnock WarShip and as the "Core Ship" in the Pakled ClumpShips.
It's been redressed so many times that there must be a very old StarShip company that is on par with CEC (Corellian Engineering Corporation) in Star Wars.
That's got to be the in-universe reason as to why that design is seeen all over the place and across time.
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