Star Trek clichés?

[Sgt_G]

Landing parties are immediately and continually relieved of their communicators by hostile forces after beaming down. Redundant comm hardware is seldom provided. Are the data plans too costly???

There was book in which Neelix and Tuvok were captured and relieved of their communicators and phasers. Once they were alone, Neelix pulled out a second weapon hidden in his boot. He looked at Tuvok and said, "You don't carry a backup weapon? What kind of security officer are you?"

 

[DonIago]

There's been novels, and even episodes I believe, where Our Heroes had backup communication devices as well; sadly and perhaps inexplicably they're not in consistent usage.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

That plague that killed millions of you over centuries, probably our doctor can fix that in one episode. Oh no, maybe they can't? ...phew, turned out they can. You almost had me there.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

Ferengi. Ferengi 1: Hah I only care about profit and nothing else, lol. Ferengi 2: hah I only care about profit too and even less about anything else, lol. This is fun because Ferengi are greedy and only care about profit. lol. /sigh