Examples of Characters Doing Stupid Things

[The Overlord]

What are some of the most blatant examples of characters doing stupid things on Star Trek?

In the Empok Nor episode, there was an security officer pointing a gun at an engineer, for no good reason. She justifies this by saying the safety is on:

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/ds9-empok-nor-review-7037486

 

[HIjol]

Neelix, because Neelix

Wesley, just because

 

[Starborn Dragon]

Admiral Doherty (sp?) in Insurrection repeating the age old human cycle of see resources, move indigenous people to get resources.

 

[Disco]

Kirk not raising his shields in TWOK

 

[T'Girl]

Chekov not ordering a emergency beam up the second he made the Botany Bay connection.

Picard not leaving the Nexis to preventing the death of his family, the Romulan attack on the observatory, and arresting Soran.

Admiral Doherty (sp?) in Insurrection repeating the age old human cycle of see resources, move indigenous people to get resources.

Except the people weren't indigenous and the resource was a major medical discovery.

 

[HIjol]

Chekov not ordering a emergency beam up the second he made the Botany Bay connection.

Picard not leaving the Nexis to preventing the death of his family, the Romulan attack on the observatory, and arresting Soran.

Admiral Doherty (sp?) in Insurrection repeating the age old human cycle of see resources, move indigenous people to get resources.

Except the people weren't indigenous and the resource was a major medical discovery.

The "Chekov" one was excellent!

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Jonathan Archer doing...well pretty much everything.

 

[SPCTRE]

 

[Autistoid]

What are some of the most blatant examples of characters doing stupid things on Star Trek?

In the Empok Nor episode, there was an security officer pointing a gun at an engineer, for no good reason. She justifies this by saying the safety is on:

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/ds9-empok-nor-review-7037486

Watched that review and its far dummer than the supposed errors.

Couldn't find anything remotely correct about what the guy was saying.

Phaser rifles are not guns full stop, furthermore a safety means alot more when a malfunctioning anything can kill. Also it's well established that a security officer isn't much more than a mall cop, the federation doesn't produce great soldiers.

Saying spoonhead made total sense in the context of what was going on.

And the having to split up made sense within context of the plot.

 

[Autistoid]

As much as people like to use this reasoning, Picard and Stewart when through very much the same character shifts in real life.

Stewart as a person changed drastically over the course of the series.

It'd be no surprise that picard would loosen up drastically.

 

[Lance]

Gosh, the stunt doubles are really obvious there.

'Picard' looks more like Anthony Hopkins than Patrick Stewart!

 

[Richard Baker]

Riker allowing an obsolete Bird of Prey to destroy the Federation's flagship.

 

[The Overlord]

What are some of the most blatant examples of characters doing stupid things on Star Trek?

In the Empok Nor episode, there was an security officer pointing a gun at an engineer, for no good reason. She justifies this by saying the safety is on:

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/ds9-empok-nor-review-7037486

Watched that review and its far dummer than the supposed errors.

Couldn't find anything remotely correct about what the guy was saying.

Phaser rifles are not guns full stop, furthermore a safety means alot more when a malfunctioning anything can kill. Also it's well established that a security officer isn't much more than a mall cop, the federation doesn't produce great soldiers.

Saying spoonhead made total sense in the context of what was going on.

And the having to split up made sense within context of the plot.

The engineer did not seem happy the security officer is pointing a phaser rifle at him, despite the safety being on and I think the engineer has every reason to object considering she can point that phaser any where else. So I still think its a stupid thing for the character to do.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Chekov not ordering a emergency beam up the second he made the Botany Bay connection.

McCoy not beaming Terrell and Chekov to the Enterprise for an immediate medical examination after hearing Chekov's story about Khan putting the eels in their bodies.

--Sran

 

[USS Triumphant]

All of the times the crew/computer failed to use all of the intruder suppression features of the ship when there was an intruder aboard. (Force fields, gas, and anyone - or even the image of everyone in the case of entities that apparently could appear to crew but somehow were invisible to sensors - roaming around without having been brought aboard the ship in an authorized way gets wrapped in force fields, gassed, and beamed straight to the brig - or well off the ship if a known threat like the Borg.)

Whomever decided shuttle and transporters should be freely available unless an override code is used by default, instead of making the default that they are *locked down* unless an authorized code is entered. (Yar? Worf?)

Whomever decided that the holodecks shouldn't have a freakin' external easy to unplug POWER CABLE OR PHYSICAL SWITCH. (Probably someone at Utopia Planitia to begin with, but this was on Geordi and the rest of the engineering team after the first time there was a malfunction that locked people in.)

 

[FormerLurker]

Chekov not ordering a emergency beam up the second he made the Botany Bay connection.

McCoy not beaming Terrell and Chekov to the Enterprise for an immediate medical examination after hearing Chekov's story about Khan putting the eels in their bodies.

--Sran

This is a far better example than the first. Chekov's "stupid thing" is mitigated by the fact that he wanted to make certain the Reliant could get a transporter lock before beaming them up. No guarantee of that inside the cargo container.

McCoy's error is just egregious. Made for great storytelling, but egregious.

 

[Trekkin]

What are some of the most blatant examples of characters doing stupid things on Star Trek?

In the Empok Nor episode, there was an security officer pointing a gun at an engineer, for no good reason. She justifies this by saying the safety is on:

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/ds9-empok-nor-review-7037486

Watched that review and its far dummer than the supposed errors.

Couldn't find anything remotely correct about what the guy was saying.

Phaser rifles are not guns full stop, furthermore a safety means alot more when a malfunctioning anything can kill. Also it's well established that a security officer isn't much more than a mall cop, the federation doesn't produce great soldiers.

Saying spoonhead made total sense in the context of what was going on.

And the having to split up made sense within context of the plot.

Whoops.

Kirk and Khan take turns lobbying the idiot ball between them in TWOK. Kirk with his refusal to raise shields, and Khan for...everything in the last 20 min.

Actually, TWOK relies on a lot of stupidity to even set it up. McGivers was a walking collection of 'stupid things' for most of Space Seed, though she had her redeeming moments. Kirk's decision to just maroon one of his officers and a bunch of ambitious supermen without telling anyone where he dumped them (including McGivers family apparently) was another 'huh' moment.

No offence to TWOK.

EDIT: Add TUC McCoy doing CPR on a Klingon with big gaping holes in his chest.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Kirk's decision to just maroon one of his officers and a bunch of ambitious supermen without telling anyone where he dumped them (including McGivers family apparently) was another 'huh' moment.

What makes you think he never told anyone where they were. The reason for the mix-up about the planets was because Ceti Alpha VI exploded shortly after Khan and his followers were left on Ceti Alpha V.

Add TUC McCoy doing CPR on a Klingon with big gaping holes in his chest.

That wasn't the best course of action, but as McCoy knew nothing about Klingon anatomy and physiology, he had no way of knowing how to treat Gorkon's hemorrhagic shock and likely concomitant DIC, as Klingon blood may not have had the same iron base that human blood has (or cooper, as is the case with Vulcans and Romulans). I suppose he could have asked for the Klingon equivalent of fresh frozen plasma or cryoprecipitate, but there's no guarantee that Chang and others would have been able to find anything in time.

--Sran

 

[Trekkin]

You're right, Kirk may have...but the Reliant was scanning all the planets in those systems for life. You'd think Terell would get a little notification saying 'Khans on Ceti Alpha 5, don't bother scanning that one' if somone knew.

I always wondered how they managed to mix the planets up. Even if a planet disappears, Ceti Alpha 5 would not be in 6's coordinates (excluding a huge plot convenience.) Assuming the crew was actually navigating and not just wandering around space until they hit a planet, they really should have noticed something had happened to the planets. So a stupid point to the navigator or the ships computer?


My problem with the CPR is that he didn't put any pressure on the wound first - especially as Gowron was conscious, breathing and had a pulse. Even if Bones defaulted to human anatomy, it's just odd. Blocking up the wound first actually makes more sense, because Bones does know that Klingons tend to keep their blood on the inside. But hey, CPR is more dramatic to watch. Plus, he was drunk.

 

[T'Girl]

but the Reliant was scanning all the planets in those systems for life

Why would the Reliant be scanning all the planets in a system?

They were looking for a suitable planet in a suitable orbit. They likely ignored the rest of the planets.