My Pet Peeve

[Commander Rabbit]

Every time I see people being thrown around the bridge, or just holding on to something for dear life, I want to scream...

Seat belts were invented and proven useful in the 20th century!!! Why the heck aren't they being used in the 23rd/24th??? Yeah, yeah, I know the action shots wouldn't be as interesting. It still annoys me.

So what is YOUR pet peeve?

 

[Sector 7]

We had a looooong debate about seat belts once. I don't think they ever resolved the issue.

I was glad to finally see an Enterprise with multiple warp cores. (Then again they jettisoned all of them anyway in ST09.) Every time the 'lava lamp' went out I wanted to scream, "Where's the damn back up unit?!"

 

[Cyke101]

People getting throttled about, I can sort of see anyway, as the ship rocks maybe once every few weeks anyway.

What annoys me, however, are those huge gigantic containers of supplies and possibly hazardous material lounging about in the cargo bay without straps. Yeah, bye bye, Worf's spine!

 

[JuanBolio]

When a photon torpedo (matter/antimatter warhead with a yield supposed to be measured in megatons) explodes with all the awesome cosmic force of a mortar shell.

Also when people - especially the show's writers - seem to be unable to tell the difference in function between a matter/antimatter reactor, which powers a ship, and the warp nacelles which actually warp space and time and allow the ship to effectively move faster than light.

 

[sbk1234]

I am sick and tired of Vulcans always sharing a haircut with Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. Enough already!

 

[Chrisisall]

MY pet peeve is ships shooting at each other in warp; that's absolutely impossible. It's like boxers punching each other in different time frames.
Impulse & thruster-only battles, please!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I am sick and tired of Vulcans always sharing a haircut with Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. Enough already!

 

[Chrisisall]

OMG!!! I just choked!!!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

^Sorry. I didn't mean to cause injury.

 

[Chrisisall]

^Sorry. I didn't mean to cause injury.

LOL, that kind of injury is cool!

 

[Cyke101]

Oh, I have another one. I haven't noticed this in DS9/VOY/ENT, but it drives me nuts in TNG: Velocity is NOT a synonym for "speed!"

Data, you know better!

 

[JuanBolio]

MY pet peeve is ships shooting at each other in warp; that's absolutely impossible. It's like boxers punching each other in different time frames.
Impulse & thruster-only battles, please!

It would work with photon torpedoes, and with ships at warp strafing ships at impulse.

 

[DevilEyes]

I am sick and tired of Vulcans always sharing a haircut with Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. Enough already!

I'm sick of the entire races sharing the same haircut, too! Modern Vulcans and Romulans are the worst offenders (at least women had different haircuts in TOS!).

And those modern Romulan forehead ridges. STUPID.

 

[Cyke101]

MY pet peeve is ships shooting at each other in warp; that's absolutely impossible. It's like boxers punching each other in different time frames.
Impulse & thruster-only battles, please!

It would work with photon torpedoes, and with ships at warp strafing ships at impulse.

Though it is kind of weird... when you're in a warp chase scene, relatively speaking, seeing torpedoes travel forward the way they do makes sense, but if fired from a ship's aft launcher (re: being chased) torpedoes shouldn't even be visible! Maybe just a flash from the launcher and BOOM, impact on the chasing vessel.

Oh, dramatic license, how I love thee

 

[Deckerd]

The whole armament system is dramatic license, like the propulsion.

 

[Cyke101]

The whole armament system is dramatic license, like the propulsion.

I'm so sure that if Trek sound effects weren't so good, that we'd be getting a whole lot more complaints about how there shouldn't be sound in space

 

[Deckerd]

It just bemuses me that one little detail in an entire fantasy world causes upset. I just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.

 

[Bluesteel]

I hate and absolutely detest when Picard/Janeway hail an alien vessel and the vessel responds by firing. But oh wait. The Alien vessel is no match for the Federation ship and are disabled in one hit. They then hail back and the Captain responds smugly "Now they want to talk".

That is racist. That is racist!!!!


Oh and another pet peeve of mine is when we see Aliens so weak compared to the federation. The Klingon Empire is meant to be an empire that can defeat the Federation. We've been told so several times and show this. Yet everytime Klingons fight Starfleet ships they get massacred.

The Cardassians are meant to be a race that had a brutal border war with the federation that was nearly ruinous for the Federation. Oh wait what do we see on screen? Cardassians are ants compared to the Federation


Jem'Hadar badass warrriors. Who seem to get their asses kicked very easily.

Lets not start on the borg.

 

[The Badger]

The Enterprise D encounters an unknown ship. Mister Worf says "They are hailing us.". Picard and Riker then have a five minute chat about the situation before deciding to respond. Fair enough, but...

The Enterprise D encounters an unknown ship. Picard says "Open hailing frequencies." Worf hits a button, and half a second later, says "No response". At which point Picard assumes the aliens are hostile and orders red alert.

What, unknown aliens aren't allowed to have chats?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ i'm with you on that one. Although it is understandable for time's sake. The episode (or movie) only has so much time allotted that it cannot wait for a more realistic response.

I've also always been annoyed at how 99% of the aliens encountered were bi-peds, spoke english (again, had to do it, i understand), how even aliens that may have had heads that were completely alien looking still hand hands that were human looking (i'm very anal, can you tell?), an other assorted nitpicky things.....