Which raises an interesting question. How 'tolerant' is our own species in that respect? Would we function just as well on an alien planet/ship with, say, a gravity of 1.2g ? 1.6 g? 10% more oxygen (or 4% less)? etc ...
Little things in Trek that just bug you...
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Which raises an interesting question. How 'tolerant' is our own species in that respect? Would we function just as well on an alien planet/ship with, say, a gravity of 1.2g ? 1.6 g? 10% more oxygen (or 4% less)? etc ...
Humans can't operate well in gravities higher than 1.5 G's. We're just not evolved for it. The heart strains, everything is harder to do, and falling is more likely to cause far more serious injury because the acceleration is greater and you slam into the ground much harder.
The fact that the Enterprise was meant to be exploring the outer frontier, but was always rendezvousing with other Starfleet vessels. It's almost as if the ship was only ever patrolling established Federation space rather than going where no-one has gone before.
Am I the only one who actually really liked the technobabble? Even terms used in wrong context at least expanded my vocabulary growing up with it. It might not always be useful stuff, but has often been handy in Scrabble.
Am I the only one who actually really liked the technobabble? Even terms used in wrong context at least expanded my vocabulary growing up with it. It might not always be useful stuff, but has often been handy in Scrabble.
Is it just me, or were there no security cameras on board any of the ships? Or if there were, it didn't seem to me that they were ever really used during, for instance, investigations and such.
I can't really think of a specific instance, but I definitely remember thinking to myself on multiple occasions, "why don't you just check the damn security footage??!!"
Someone correct me if I'm off base here.
Edit: I think I remember a specific instance now -- a Voyager episode where Maquis crew members were being killed off one by one, and one of these murders occurred in the holodeck in a "retro" movie theater. Tuvok ended up being the killer, but I distinctly remember them going through all this trouble to recreate the killer's likeness using all this technobabble nonsense, and I'm wondering why it had to be that difficult.
I can't really think of a specific instance, but I definitely remember thinking to myself on multiple occasions, "why don't you just check the damn security footage??!!"
Someone correct me if I'm off base here.
Edit: I think I remember a specific instance now -- a Voyager episode where Maquis crew members were being killed off one by one, and one of these murders occurred in the holodeck in a "retro" movie theater. Tuvok ended up being the killer, but I distinctly remember them going through all this trouble to recreate the killer's likeness using all this technobabble nonsense, and I'm wondering why it had to be that difficult.
Yes, he didn't kill them but put them in a coma otherwise it was the same. Apparently, they have these cameras on the flyers because they could recreate the incident when Neelix was killed so it makes no sense that they wouldn't have them on the ship.
TOS's "Court Martial" and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock had visual logs / flight recorder visuals being used. But yeah, they conveniently forgot that option more often than not.
Where are the seatbelts!
No vessel makes record tapes in that detail, that perfect. Rack focusing, indeed!
Perhaps 24th century Federation privacy laws have become so stringent that they'd rather do their investigations without them than to deal with the hassle of filling out all the forms they would need in order to get permission to acually access/use the material that has been recorded ?
Or it could be that camera footage is maintained only of the most crucial, potentially life-threatening situations. A plane's black box doesn't record the co-pilot's afternoon snack. (Generally)
Ceti eels. 
Not to mention the neat optical of flying right into the bridge from outside.
Which brings me to my LTITTJBY: The fact that the Talosians recorded this episode in a method that mimics 1960s TV editing, has scenes aboard the Enterprise at quite a distance even before encountering the distress signal, and includes all the illusions they created in visuals indistinguishable from reality.
Yup! I feel like they could have made at least a little effort to try and make the recording not look exactly like the editing of the show itself.
I'd like to add, calling out shield percentages that aren't 47%.
^nods^
Actually, I had a thought about that a while back. Given that shields aren't typically a total defense (especially during DS9 and VOY) shouldn't the count go up (towards maximum tolerance) not down?
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