Blatantly *bad* oversight in 'Rise' concerning approaching "asteroid"

[DostoyevskyClone]

...why not just travel *toward* them and start blowing them to bits instead of just sitting around waiting for the asteroids to come to them?! When the show first opens, they friggin' just watch the thing until it's SECONDS away from the planet and THEN start firing at it.

Of course, if they would have traveled toward the next "asteroid," it would have messed up the plot of the show, because they would have discovered prematurely that it was that alien race.

Still, I realize there are oversights all over the place in Trek, but it's been a *long* time since I last saw one that hit me so hard so immediately.

 

[LeadHead]

Re: Blatantly *bad* oversight in 'Rise' concerning approaching "astero

The plot hole is biggest at the beginning of the episode, why they waited to blow the forst one out of the sky until it was seconds from the planet is quite ridiculus. If they had enough time to bring the Ambassador and Sklaar aboard, they had enough time to head to it and fire a torpedo 10 minutes prior instead.

Once they recived the message from Vadum and Tuvok's shuttle went down, it became more necessary for Voyager to remain at the planet. Under the assumption that if Vadum were found, he may have information leading to a solution.

 

[Timo]

Re: Blatantly *bad* oversight in 'Rise' concerning approaching "astero

To be fair, the unseen first asteroid took our heroes by surprise by not being vaporizable. And the one incoming after the teaser was moving at a higher speed.

So if the two asteroids in between those (the second one, which we didn't see, and the third one, which we saw in the teaser) all represented an incrementally and surprisingly increased threat, it would make sense that Janeway's response was insufficient every time.

However, the writers weren't that smart. Only the fourth asteroid is said to be moving faster than the previous ones, and only the first one is said to have been exceptionally tough. There is no mention that the second and third one would have surprised Janeway in some way.

But we can give the writers a break and indeed accept that all the asteroids were deliberately engineered to represent a deceptively escalating threat, so that the defenses would always be too late but the defenders would never realize that they were being had.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[spoonunseptium]

Re: Blatantly *bad* oversight in 'Rise' concerning approaching "astero

I agree with Timo.

Justifying blips in Star Trek is much more satisfying.