Can all canon and continuity flaws in Trek be explained away by characters being drunk or high?

[Armus]

Last month in the "Discovery" forum I asked if the characters should do things like weed and it has just came to me that maybe we have already seen characters do this via canon/continuity flubs. Just think of a fe examples:
1 Mitchell thinks Kirk's middle initial is R when we know it isn't. Well we did see him and Kellerman in some magic garden before that scene that he created and who knows what he was growing in that garden. Maybe he and Kellerman were doing more than eating juicy fruit so he was not in his right mind when he made Kirk's grave.
2 Spock says that a Eugenic's war happened in the 1990's. Perhaps he simply had a little to much Saurian Brandy before going on duty and everyone was to embarrased for him to point out his mistake. Even Khan didn't want to make him look bad and correct him later in the episode.
3 Data's cat went from a male to female without anyone mentioning it. My theory is Spot one night got hold of some very potent catnip and because a cat never knows when to stop basically got way to high. His nasty habit on jumping on consoles ended in tragic results when he went into a room and did it but it was a room with a airlock and got sucked out into space. Geordi felt bad so he got Data another cat but could only fine a female cat so he just programed Data to think Spot had always been a female. Also if you look at the episodes you might notice that Spot has gone through some different looks so this might have happened more than once.

Jason

Im a bi product of the Eugenics War. It did happen.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The reference was to Spock's "my father's race." So McCoy's comment concerning conquered might not have meant all Vulcans.

At some point in history, Sarek's people were conquered.

This. He comes from a particular people group on Vulcan - a tribe or a nation.

 

[The Signal]

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[1001001]

Get a life.

 

[at Quark's]

No.

We expect humanity to have evolved in Star Trek after all. I would assume that would imply humans being drunk or high less, not more often. Certainly not often enough to explain all continuity flaws

 

[JoeCabby]

3 Data's cat went from a male to female without anyone mentioning it. My theory is Spot one night got hold of some very potent catnip and because a cat never knows when to stop basically got way to high. His nasty habit on jumping on consoles ended in tragic results when he went into a room and did it but it was a room with a airlock and got sucked out into space. Geordi felt bad so he got Data another cat but could only fine a female cat so he just programed Data to think Spot had always been a female. Also if you look at the episodes you might notice that Spot has gone through some different looks so this might have happened more than once.

Jason

I love this explanation.

 

[Kor]

No.

We expect humanity to have evolved in Star Trek after all. I would assume that would imply humans being drunk or high less, not more often. Certainly not often enough to explain all continuity flaws

What if "evolved" means that humans move past their 20/21st century hang-ups and have a more open attitude toward such things instead of stigmatizing them?

Nobody will care anymore how other people spend their personal time. Some people go home from work and relax with a holonovel. Others have a nice drink or two or ten. And others get stoned out of their mind with other chemical means or perhaps direct electronic interfacing with the brain. 24th-century medicine would have nullified any harmful effects anyway.

Kor

 

[at Quark's]

What if "evolved" means that humans move past their 20/21st century hang-ups and have a more open attitude toward such things instead of stigmatizing them?
Kor

I was expecting a reply from someone such as this, sooner or later.

However, this is not how I personally think about it. I simply think that evidence of series such as TNG (replacing alcohol by synthehol) points in this direction.

 

[Kor]

And there would also be designer synthe-weed, synthe-acid, etc. that provide psychoactive experiences without being addictive or causing physical or psychological harm. This also does away with any social ills that are currently associated with substance abuse.

Kor

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Only if that character is Q.

 

[F. King Daniel]

You know what never gets old? This guy's copypaste which everyone just scrolls right past.

 

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[USS Triumphant]

And we don't see any other non-spotted Trill species in DS9.

Not seeing them isn't proof that they don't exist. See also: Remans. See also, my deep frustration and anger regarding the existence of Remans. That doesn't make them not a thing, unfortunately.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Not seeing them isn't proof that they don't exist. See also: Remans. See also, my deep frustration and anger regarding the existence of Remans. That doesn't make them not a thing, unfortunately.

Eh, Remans don't really bother me in general if we assume 90% of them live out their lives in slave labor on Remus. In fact, it's neat to have an example of one of the enslaved subject species we already knew existed within the Romulan Star Empire.

 

[BillJ]

All of Star Trek is a pot-brownie induced hallucination of Kelly Grayson.

 

[CRM-114]

Oops. I'll have to edit that. Thanks!

But let us pause to reflect on the poetic justice of screwing up while making fun of continuity errors.

I swear to God, I wasn't drinking!

"I'm not as think as you drunk I am."

 

[Prax]

Most of what are pointed out as continuity errors really aren't, and usually the explanation of a supposed error is more logical than calling it an error.

The same goes for Star Wars.

 

[Kemaiku]

It's all a bad dream Pike is having becaues of whatever was in that damn beaker.

 

[Tim Thomason]

All canon and continuity flaws in Trek can be explained away by the viewers getting drunk or high.

 

[sbk1234]

I just assume that every continuity error is simply me not paying enough attention, just thinking that I heard or saw something else. "Did that tombstone just read James R. Kirk? Naw. It must have been my imagination."