Little things that irk you

[Rÿcher]

in "We'll Always Have Paris", Manheim's distress call, he read it as "This is Dr. Paul Mmmmanheim".

in "Home Soil", when replying to the Enterprise's hail, doctor Mendel answers, "Enterprisssse...."

come on, aren't those cuttable gaffes?


How about where Janeway is being a bitch and making it so that the crewmember from the Equinox is bait for the transdimensional beings. Totally out of character for her.

 

[JiNX-01]

Well, that awful outfit they put on Jamie Finney in TOS "Court Martial." And she was wearing it at the trial (even tho' you'd think it would have been several days and that she'd have at least one other article of clothing. And why don't we ever see or hear a reference to a guardian for her while dad was off sabotaging Enterprise? Bleah.

Having Wesley know more than anyone else on the ship and putting him on the bridge. Being a genius doesn't mean you're born knowing everything. You'd still have to spend a lot of time in classrooms and reading stuff. And I don't care what the Traveller said about his special future.

Pulling previously unmentioned relatives out the writers' colons as plot devices.

 

[USS Kongo]

How the Enterprise computer always knows where everybody is on the ship. You want to find somebody, just ask the computer, and it will tell you that "so-and-so is in Ten-Forward" or whatever. I always thought this was an invasion of privacy.

Sean

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

How the Enterprise computer always knows where everybody is on the ship. You want to find somebody, just ask the computer, and it will tell you that "so-and-so is in Ten-Forward" or whatever. I always thought this was an invasion of privacy.

Sean

Makes 1984 look like Freenet, don't it?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

How the Enterprise computer always knows where everybody is on the ship. You want to find somebody, just ask the computer, and it will tell you that "so-and-so is in Ten-Forward" or whatever. I always thought this was an invasion of privacy.

Sean

technically it's only the com badge that the computer located, if someone didn't want finding they simply didn't wear their com badge. The fact they wore their com badge meant they're happy to be located.

 

[Michael]

Well, that awful outfit they put on Jamie Finney in TOS "Court Martial." And she was wearing it at the trial (even tho' you'd think it would have been several days and that she'd have at least one other article of clothing.

Aah, that's why you entered it as an avatar a few times now, eh? I always thought that you either like or really hate her clothes. Now I know it's actually the latter.

 

[The Wormhole]

How the Enterprise computer always knows where everybody is on the ship. You want to find somebody, just ask the computer, and it will tell you that "so-and-so is in Ten-Forward" or whatever. I always thought this was an invasion of privacy.

Sean

The computer tracks a person's comm badge. Or at least, that's how it's supposed to work. Sometimes this fact gets screwed around.

 

[USS Kongo]

How the Enterprise computer always knows where everybody is on the ship. You want to find somebody, just ask the computer, and it will tell you that "so-and-so is in Ten-Forward" or whatever. I always thought this was an invasion of privacy.

Sean

Makes 1984 look like Freenet, don't it?

Tell me about it. I doubt I'd be a very happy space cadet aboard the Enterprise because of this.

technically it's only the com badge that the computer located, if someone didn't want finding they simply didn't wear their com badge. The fact they wore their com badge meant they're happy to be located.

Something else which always annoyed me: the crew never wore civilian clothes during their off-duty hours. They always seemed to hang out in Ten Forward and the holodeck in their full uniforms.

I dunno, I guess I'm just grouchy today.

Sean

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Something else which always annoyed me: the crew never wore civilian clothes during their off-duty hours. They always seemed to hang out in Ten Forward and the holodeck in their full uniforms.

I dunno, I guess I'm just grouchy today.

Sean

Well that's funny because i've seen them many times in civilian clothing and besides that when you saw them in uniform in ten forward they were likely still on duty but just taking a half an hour break from their job.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

When a member of the main cast has a complete conversation with an extra and that extra is just standing there nodding because they'd have to pay him more if he had actual lines.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

It irks me when two main characters are talking and then an extra will come along with a PADD and hand it to one of the main characters who will then press a few buttons, pass it back, say a one liner or nod and then the extra will nod and walk away.

 

[KDoug]

All technology glows (or at least has blinking lights). Also, whoever is manning the communications console will usually wait no more than two seconds before deciding that the other ship isn't going to respond to their hail.

 

[Good Will Riker]

How if it were a guest star, whether it be a Starfleet admiral or an alien of the week, if they commit an offense it is court martial time or they are in big, intergalactic "doo doo" as they are being hauled away, but if one of the main characters commits similar offenses, it is just a slap on the wrist.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Whenever Voyager uses Sevens nanoprobes or the deflector to come up with a magic bullet solution for the episode.

I hope Sevens nanoprobes and the main deflector mutually destroy each other one day.

 

[Nardpuncher]

The idea when TNG first started that viewers were supposed to accept the Ferengi as worthy adversaries.
It didn't help the heavy-handed way they were portrayed as sexist capitalists either. ugh.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

The idea when TNG first started that viewers were supposed to accept the Ferengi as worthy adversaries.
It didn't help the heavy-handed way they were portrayed as sexist capitalists either. ugh.

But don't you know that capitalism in all its forms is EVIL?

 

[Mysterion]

Well, that awful outfit they put on Jamie Finney in TOS "Court Martial." And she was wearing it at the trial (even tho' you'd think it would have been several days and that she'd have at least one other article of clothing. And why don't we ever see or hear a reference to a guardian for her while dad was off sabotaging Enterprise? Bleah.

Agreed on her taste in clothing. The girl needs serious help shopping for clothes. As for a guardian: how old was she anyhow? She was named after Kirk because he was friends with her dad when he was at the academy. That was somehwere between 12 to 16 years vbefore the episode, right?

The thing that bugs is in the later series where "sir" begins to be used as a form of address regardless of gender. I'm sure someone is trying to make some sort of BS politically correct point about something or other, but it just comes across as idiotic to me.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Well, that awful outfit they put on Jamie Finney in TOS "Court Martial." And she was wearing it at the trial (even tho' you'd think it would have been several days and that she'd have at least one other article of clothing. And why don't we ever see or hear a reference to a guardian for her while dad was off sabotaging Enterprise? Bleah.

Agreed on her taste in clothing. The girl needs serious help shopping for clothes. As for a guardian: how old was she anyhow? She was named after Kirk because he was friends with her dad when he was at the academy. That was somehwere between 12 to 16 years vbefore the episode, right?

The thing that bugs is in the later series where "sir" begins to be used as a form of address regardless of gender. I'm sure someone is trying to make some sort of BS politically correct point about something or other, but it just comes across as idiotic to me.

It's not crunch time, Mysterion.

 

[Mysterion]

^^^^^
I generally loathe Voyager, but I do give them points for that. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[jgdst]

It bothers me how torpedo happy Voyager gets after Night. "We only have 38 and no way of replacing them when they're gone". THEN STOP FIRING THEM!

Borg nanoprobes being the solution to EVERYTHING. They can bring back Neelix, but not the other 300 redshirts (from the 150 crew) who died?

It used to bother me on TNG when you could tell if the nameless ensigns were going to get any lines or just ripped apart by anomaly of the week just by looking at whether they had the high grade main cast uniform or not...

And lastly, how all the extras seemed to all go from being ensigns to noncom "crewmen" on later seasons of Voyager and Enterprise.