Oh come on!!

[RobertScorpio]

When Riker used the joystick control thingy in Insurrection I remember the entire theatre laughing. And just as Data told lal.."they were laughing at you not with you"...It was seen, and rightfully so, as a stupid idea. Whoever thought of that should be found and..well..executed!

But thats the only time. The still famous brain operation in Spock's Brain/walking around like a robot silliness.

These are just two examples...but can you think of other scenes or moments in TREK history where you thought to yourself..."THIS IS STUPID"

Rob
Scorpio

Actually, the idea of using a joystick to control a ship's movement manually is perfectly logical. Why do you think they use them in real-life aircraft?

What was stupid was the idea that it'd pop up from the floor like that. It should just be a standard part of the equipment -- like they did with the joystick on ENT.

the scene was just stupid. Deal with it...

Rob Scorpio

 

[Borg451]

Janeway and Paris being turned into Frogs while being everywhere in the universe at the same time...

find something that beats that.. go on.. i dare ya...

 

[NovusInceptum]

Am I the only fan who likes "These Are The Voyages...?"

 

[GeneHunt]

Am I the only fan who likes "These Are The Voyages...?"

No, I thought was pretty good, just didn't like the way TNG overshadowed ENT in its own finale.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Am I the only fan who likes "These Are The Voyages...?"

No, I thought was pretty good, just didn't like the way TNG overshadowed ENT in its own finale.

Yep..I agree. Talk about stepping on toes.

Rob Scorpio

 

[Admiral2]

When Riker used the joystick control thingy in Insurrection I remember the entire theatre laughing. And just as Data told lal.."they were laughing at you not with you"...It was seen, and rightfully so, as a stupid idea. Whoever thought of that should be found and..well..executed!

But thats the only time. The still famous brain operation in Spock's Brain/walking around like a robot silliness.

These are just two examples...but can you think of other scenes or moments in TREK history where you thought to yourself..."THIS IS STUPID"

Rob
Scorpio

Actually, the idea of using a joystick to control a ship's movement manually is perfectly logical. Why do you think they use them in real-life aircraft?

What was stupid was the idea that it'd pop up from the floor like that. It should just be a standard part of the equipment -- like they did with the joystick on ENT.

the scene was just stupid. Deal with it...

Rob Scorpio

No, it wasn't.

First, it makes perfect sense for a spacecraft that's essentially flown using ATM control screens on a regular basis to have a back-up control system that has worked every time it's been tried since the Gemini program.

On the flip side, it also makes perfect sense to store said back-up control system out of the way when said ATM control screen is working properly.

The only thing truly stupid about the scene is the reaction of brain-addled Trekkies so in love with blinky-light magic control technology ("Oh Okudagrams! Have my baby!" [SWOON]) that they actually laughed at a device that any real engineer with half a brain would have made the ship's primary control system from the outset.

 

[Borg451]

i have to agree... its makes sense for a spaceship to have that..

i think Rob Scorpio needs to admit he is beat

 

[RobertScorpio]

Actually, the idea of using a joystick to control a ship's movement manually is perfectly logical. Why do you think they use them in real-life aircraft?

What was stupid was the idea that it'd pop up from the floor like that. It should just be a standard part of the equipment -- like they did with the joystick on ENT.

the scene was just stupid. Deal with it...

Rob Scorpio

No, it wasn't.

First, it makes perfect sense for a spacecraft that's essentially flown using ATM control screens on a regular basis to have a back-up control system that has worked every time it's been tried since the Gemini program.

On the flip side, it also makes perfect sense to store said back-up control system out of the way when said ATM control screen is working properly.

The only thing truly stupid about the scene is the reaction of brain-addled Trekkies so in love with blinky-light magic control technology ("Oh Okudagrams! Have my baby!" [SWOON]) that they actually laughed at a device that any real engineer with half a brain would have made the ship's primary control system from the outset.

It was a stupid scene and it was aimed at people like you, I guess, who play with their joysticks way too much. I served for years in the Navy and not one carrier or other ship I was on was controlled with a PC joystick.

The scene was aimed at the pimple-faced crowd who play video games. I know this because Frakes said it was. He has since gone on to say the scene sucked..and he should know..he directed it.

Rob
Scorpio

 

[number6]

the scene was just stupid. Deal with it...

Rob Scorpio

No, it wasn't.

First, it makes perfect sense for a spacecraft that's essentially flown using ATM control screens on a regular basis to have a back-up control system that has worked every time it's been tried since the Gemini program.

On the flip side, it also makes perfect sense to store said back-up control system out of the way when said ATM control screen is working properly.

The only thing truly stupid about the scene is the reaction of brain-addled Trekkies so in love with blinky-light magic control technology ("Oh Okudagrams! Have my baby!" [SWOON]) that they actually laughed at a device that any real engineer with half a brain would have made the ship's primary control system from the outset.

It was a stupid scene and it was aimed at people like you, I guess, who play with their joysticks way too much. I served for years in the Navy and not one carrier or other ship I was on was controlled with a PC joystick.

The scene was aimed at the pimple-faced crowd who play video games. I know this because Frakes said it was. He has since gone on to say the scene sucked..and he should know..he directed it.

Rob
Scorpio

The joystick scene was a total fanboy moment, right along with that whole "blow out the ram scoop" nonsense. Yuckk!

 

[kissthestar]

Odo's ability to change his MASS as well as his form. (The episode where it really hit me was the one where Sisco carries beachtowel Odo with one arm, tosses him onto a chair, and Odo emerges). --I assume that at some point, there was a technobable explanation for the changing mass, but I still don't buy it.

Cardassians cheering and having a firework display when Sisco and son prove them wrond in the Bajoran solar sail ship.

Voyager ejects the warp core in one episode, and in the next it's back without explanation.

The emergency transport unit. (for multiple reasons)
1. It exists
2. Data carries only one in spite of never being on an away mission alone.
3. Data still carries only one when he is specifically going to rescue Picard.

Kirk's ability to destroy any computer by spouting illogical thoughts (granted, TOS was produced in the 1960s, but still. . .)

Spock/Worf episodes in which they are saved by that redundant body part nobody has ever heard of before.

Perhaps part of Odo's mass was the air around him.

 

[Deckerd]

Timo has lots of theories about Odo's mass / size / weight, which he explains very seriously. I think it's another example of the fantasy element of ST.

 

[sbk1234]

Wesley Crusher sitting at Conn in an emergency situation, when - if Picard insisted on making him an acting ensign - he should have been down in engineering working as one of a team where he could learn from the experience. Also, it had been established early on that his expertise was engineering.

"I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."

OK guys!!! I am I really the only Star Trek fan who likes Wesley Crusher???
I loved the character. Frankly, his character was no worse written than any other. Not to mention he was the cutest character on Star Trek ever...

I can't speak for others, but I personally don't dislike Wesley. I just don't think the character was used properly. As for him being the cutest, I'd put Marina Sirtis up against him any day of the week. Wait. I meant up against me any day of the week.

 

[Sector 7]

Wesley Crusher sitting at Conn in an emergency situation, when - if Picard insisted on making him an acting ensign - he should have been down in engineering working as one of a team where he could learn from the experience. Also, it had been established early on that his expertise was engineering.

"I'm with Starfleet. We don't lie."

OK guys!!! I am I really the only Star Trek fan who likes Wesley Crusher???
I loved the character. Frankly, his character was no worse written than any other. Not to mention he was the cutest character on Star Trek ever...

I can't speak for others, but I personally don't dislike Wesley. I just don't think the character was used properly. As for him being the cutest, I'd put Marina Sirtis up against him any day of the week. Wait. I meant up against me any day of the week.

Works for you maybe, but I'm gay... I'd rather have a cute guy.

p.s.- I love your sig lines!

 

[SFRabid]

Last night I watched the episode of TNG where the ferengi used orbs the mess with Picard's mind. He beams over to his old ship and then puts up the shields so they cannot beam him off. Then the ferengi beam off even though the shields are up. Then he puts up the shields a second time and causes the Enterprise to loose communication with him. Or maybe older ships had two sets of shields, one that interferes with the teleporter and one that interfieres with communications.

 

[Kryton]

Nah, it's just like in "Relics" when the only thing holding open the door to the Dyson's Sphere is the Genolan's SHIELDS....

Then the ENT-D not only beams out Geordi & Scotty THROUGH THE SHIELDS, but pretty handily blows up the Genolan with a couple of torps.

I could see having torps advanced enough, some 80 years later, to defeat 23rd-century shields, but the transporter, IMO, is just crazy-talk to get through that easily!

 

[kissthestar]

Many's the time when they need to use the shuttle and insist on the transporter, or vice versa.

 

[Loupjo]

The episode of voyager : learning curve. Something with cheese, very stupid. The episode of voyager where janeway and paris turn into aligators and mate

 

[Admiral2]

the scene was just stupid. Deal with it...

Rob Scorpio

No, it wasn't.

First, it makes perfect sense for a spacecraft that's essentially flown using ATM control screens on a regular basis to have a back-up control system that has worked every time it's been tried since the Gemini program.

On the flip side, it also makes perfect sense to store said back-up control system out of the way when said ATM control screen is working properly.

The only thing truly stupid about the scene is the reaction of brain-addled Trekkies so in love with blinky-light magic control technology ("Oh Okudagrams! Have my baby!" [SWOON]) that they actually laughed at a device that any real engineer with half a brain would have made the ship's primary control system from the outset.

It was a stupid scene and it was aimed at people like you, I guess, who play with their joysticks way too much. I served for years in the Navy and not one carrier or other ship I was on was controlled with a PC joystick.

Mainly because aircraft carriers and those other ships generally travel in only two dimensions over a defined, relatively flat surface at the speed of a car, which means the tiny steering wheels and limited computer controls modern ships use to set their course are adequate. Most of the aircraft that carriers carry, however - vehicles that travel in open air faster than the speed of sound and operate in three dimensions (like SPACECRAFT IN SPACE) - use joysticks.

But you'd know that, cuz, you were, like, in the Navy, right?

The scene was aimed at the pimple-faced crowd who play video games. I know this because Frakes said it was. He has since gone on to say the scene sucked..and he should know..he directed it.

Rob
Scorpio

Which only proves he was as brain-addled as the people who joined him in the laughter.

Admiral2

 

[Mistral]

Arguments between fanboys over the proper use of a joystick on the Enterprise Bridge when we all know the proper use of a joystick should be strictly regulated to female crew members um, wow, did I just say that? I gotta stop huffing paint.

 

[tauzo]

The fact that like 90% of the galaxy is male.