The Borg using consoles was something that started in Voyager, anyway. Well, technically First Contact, but at least that can be explained away as a by-product of the Enterprise only being partially assimilated. In Voyager we actually see Borg drones leaving their alcoves to man stations, complete with red alert alarms and everything.
I never understood why the Borg had any small equipment separate from their bodies. Didn't they have hand weapons in TNG, in Descent? These are atypical Borg--but if the shields they have can be generated from their implants, why not weapons fire?
This one always bugged me. It's from TOS, The Deadly Years:
KIRK: He was scared! He saw the dead body and he ran out of the building and he was scared to death.
MCCOY: Yes, yes. Now that could be. Right. Scared. Heart beats faster, breathe gets short, and there's cold sweats and
adrenaline flows.
Adrenal activity. Now hold on Just a minute. There was something that I read once. It was ancient history, just after the atomic age. Used for radiation sickness.
Adrenaline.
WALLACE: Doctor, hyronalin is the specific accepted for all radiation sickness.
MCCOY: Yes, yes. Now. But before, adrenaline. Highly promising. Early research, but they abandoned it when hyronalin was discovered.
What...The....F?
McCoy has JUST named the compound/agent he wants. Then, in the next breath, he clearly struggles to remember the word he had just said in the previous sentence. When he says the name "adrenaline" in the second place, he says it as if he hadn't just said the word (plus a variant of the word) moments before. I suppose we COULD say that this is an unusually good portrayal of the short-term memory loss and idea unconnectedness we see with senile dementia and Alzheimer's, but somehow it just doesn't feel that way to me. It's as if the writer had Alzheimer's for a moment!
