Now I know its only a TV show, but do you ever watch Trek and be slightly irked that the technology sometimes overwrites the plot. In that they often set up that they can basically do anything.
Nemesis is a big example, such as "the transporters have failed." When they could have easily used the independent transporters on the numerous shuttles, escape pods, Captains Yacht, etc
And then "the destruct sequence has failed." erm, just shoot a phaser on full power at the warp core.
The main example I wanna mention is when you often see people complaining about the look of the USS Voyager through the series (skimming through the 'Voyager hate' thread) and how despite all the battles and attacks its taken over the years it always looks clean and pristine every week.
Yet the USS Defiant gets into way more battles and skirmishes and also looked fine every time we saw it on Deep Space Nine. People would say the difference is the Defiant could be scrubbed up by DS9's personnel after such battles.
What I would say is... what does a Starbase have that Voyager doesn't?
More than one Industrial replicator?
Voyager probably had at least one on board. (How else did they made the two Delta Flyers?)
In the s7 episode "Nightingale" we see Voyager has landed on a planet and the crew is making repairs. Thinking about it I'd imagine actually this happened quite a lot, like maybe every six months or so. Whenever they need do some maintenance they could easily find an uninhabited planet, land the ship, and the whole could work together and patch it up for a few days/weeks.
Even questions like where do they get all endless supply of shuttles and torpedoes from? Well where do the Starbases get them from? Surely its just raw materials put together by people. Is there really any reason the engineering crew of Voyager couldn't get the same materials together (from planets, asteroids, wherever) themselves? And with the help of an industrial replicator- hey presto new shuttles and torpedoes.
They even did this in Enterprise s1 ("Silent Enemy"), when they were gonna return to Jupiter Station to install the new weapons, but Trip & Reed were just like "we can do it ourselves" and did so. And that was 220 years before Voyager.
I mean personally I agree; I'd have liked to have seen Voyager gradually fall apart like in "Year of Hell", Galactica in NuBSG, the NX-01 in ENT s3 etc. But it does kinda make sense with how advanced 24th Century tech is the crew could just fix it up fine themselves.
So yeah it's only a TV show and there are lot of things you have to take for granted, but what other examples can you think of or you've noticed when you've thought "why don't they just do so and so?" and what are you thoughts on the Voyager thing?
Nemesis is a big example, such as "the transporters have failed." When they could have easily used the independent transporters on the numerous shuttles, escape pods, Captains Yacht, etc
And then "the destruct sequence has failed." erm, just shoot a phaser on full power at the warp core.
The main example I wanna mention is when you often see people complaining about the look of the USS Voyager through the series (skimming through the 'Voyager hate' thread) and how despite all the battles and attacks its taken over the years it always looks clean and pristine every week.
Yet the USS Defiant gets into way more battles and skirmishes and also looked fine every time we saw it on Deep Space Nine. People would say the difference is the Defiant could be scrubbed up by DS9's personnel after such battles.
What I would say is... what does a Starbase have that Voyager doesn't?
More than one Industrial replicator?
Voyager probably had at least one on board. (How else did they made the two Delta Flyers?)
In the s7 episode "Nightingale" we see Voyager has landed on a planet and the crew is making repairs. Thinking about it I'd imagine actually this happened quite a lot, like maybe every six months or so. Whenever they need do some maintenance they could easily find an uninhabited planet, land the ship, and the whole could work together and patch it up for a few days/weeks.
Even questions like where do they get all endless supply of shuttles and torpedoes from? Well where do the Starbases get them from? Surely its just raw materials put together by people. Is there really any reason the engineering crew of Voyager couldn't get the same materials together (from planets, asteroids, wherever) themselves? And with the help of an industrial replicator- hey presto new shuttles and torpedoes.
They even did this in Enterprise s1 ("Silent Enemy"), when they were gonna return to Jupiter Station to install the new weapons, but Trip & Reed were just like "we can do it ourselves" and did so. And that was 220 years before Voyager.
I mean personally I agree; I'd have liked to have seen Voyager gradually fall apart like in "Year of Hell", Galactica in NuBSG, the NX-01 in ENT s3 etc. But it does kinda make sense with how advanced 24th Century tech is the crew could just fix it up fine themselves.
So yeah it's only a TV show and there are lot of things you have to take for granted, but what other examples can you think of or you've noticed when you've thought "why don't they just do so and so?" and what are you thoughts on the Voyager thing?
