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Random Trek "Problems" That Bug You (and that you can't let go!)

Gettysburg.

"To be a good soldier in the Army means that you love the Army more than anything else. To be a good officer in the Army means being willing to destroy that which you love most."

Didn't look it up, from memory.
Shania Twain

"That don't impress me much"

Didn't look it up, from memory.

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team."

Didn't look it up. From memory.
 
In the first season it was: "Ten years ago, a crack commando unit..."

And the music comes up, and that jeep flips over, then flips back up.
 
Speaking of "Tin Man", the power scaling in that episode bugs me a little because it causes some issues. One short, "incidental" strafing run by a Romulan warbird takes down 70 % of the Enterprise's shields making a warbird apparently more powerful than a Borg cube. The standoff in "The Defector" would hardly make sense since regardless of Klingon support Tomalak should still be able to win easily and survive.

A better solution would have been to have the Romulans use sensor-blinding space smoke-screens.
 
I was thinking of another thing that bugs me: "Tin Man."

It's just awful all around, but the writing is especially terrible.

What, you don't like 24th century space pine cones?

But it's not awful all around, if you take into account Jay Chattaway's score.

I did an interview with him back in 2010, where he actually talked about it some:

 
Sisko should have been relieved after his retaliatory attacks on Maquis planets, and was irredeemable after "In the Pale Moonlight."

Admiral Ross betraying Senator Cretak in the interests of some kind of realpolitik.

Section 31 as an organization was a terrible idea.



I don't think that's what happened. Spock was chiding Rand for her interest in the captain, which she had just expressed to Kirk (and been gently shot down) and was continuing with an infatuated glance when Spock started speaking.

She had obviously inferred that the attraction the "imposter" had for her—apart from his actions—was likely shared by Kirk.
i honestly too was a bit disgusted by this scene.... Kirk interrupts Rand who wants to talk about what happened.... and then Spocks comment and "wink wink" looks at Rand in this scene, and Rand getting red like a teenage girl who was exposed to her crush....

well i am not english speaking native, but what else should this dialogue signify but "you enjoyed it a bit didnt you"?

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RAND: Captain? The impostor told me what happened, who he really was,and I'd just like to say that. Well, sir, what I'd like is...
KIRK: Thank you, Yeoman.
SPOCK: The, er, impostor had some interesting qualities, wouldn't you say, Yeoman?
********
...thats even for the 60s concerning
 
Kirk interrupts Rand who wants to talk about what happened.... and then Spocks comment and "wink wink" looks at Rand in this scene, and Rand getting red like a teenage girl who was exposed to her crush....

well i am not english speaking native, but what else should this dialogue signify but "you enjoyed it a bit didnt you"?

It signifies that he's chiding her for her speculative look at the captain. It's not about the "impostor," who isn't attractive to Rand, but about the whole captain, who is.
 
So...what exactly was Rand trying to say to Kirk?
i asked myself what the writers had in mind.... i think they wanted to let space for ambigous interpretations...

I guess what she wanted to say was: "No beach to walk on for us indeed"..... "your role needs the liberty to have romantic encounters with other females, and my actrice is a bit too fond of the bottle, so i am anyhow written out soon"
 
It signifies that he's chiding her for her speculative look at the captain. It's not about the "impostor," who isn't attractive to Rand, but about the whole captain, who is.
thats not how i understand it, not at all..... a strange interpretation imo
 
"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team."

Didn't look it up. From memory.
Al Yankovic

“Now, you may find it inconceivable - or, at the very least, a bit unlikely - that the relative position of the planets and the stars may have some special, deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you. But, let me give you my assurance that the forecast and predictions are all based on solid scientific documented evidence that you would have to be some kind of moron not to realize that every single one of them was absolutely true. Where was I?!”

Didn’t look it up. From memory.
 
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