Star Trek clichés?
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This, full stop.
Death and disaster don't hold the same punch when you spend the episode thinking "How are they going to undo this?" The destruction of Vulcan in ST09 didn't have the dramatic weight it should've for that very reason, which is also why I appreciated that they let it stand.
I will admit, one of the peculiarly frustrating things to me in hindsight about the TOS movies is the number of times they shatter convention... then spend a movie reversing everything. Spock's dead! Oh no, wait, he left his soul in the cushions of Bones' sofa and his body has fortuitously regenerated so we can bring him back to life. But wait! The Enterprise has been destroyed! But no, it's okay, we've got a spare one floating around spacedock, just bung the letter A on the saucer and we're ready to roll. The 'Genesis trilogy' is very well presented, but it could, almost, have never happened at all, and there would've been almost no net difference to the Trek universe at all.
But I digress. Frequently.
Would transporter accidents / weird stuff happening around transporters, them supposedly being "the safest way to travel", deserve a mention? Or are these really not frequent enough?
If everyone's transporters or holodecks were that malfunctioning, nobody would have any at all
Though I think it is troubling that these errors keep happening on the flagship of the fleet! 
Maybe if they stopped moving around so much they'd run into fewer transporter-impacting anomalies...
Did DS9 ever have a proper transporter mishap episode? I kind of doubt it. I mean, there is "Our Man Bashir" I guess...
Suppose it depends how you look at it. Other transporter mishaps occur too. For example Kira's friend that was scrambled by a "remat detonator" in The darkness and the light" (even though that was by design, I'd still count it as an accident). Sisko& some of the crew were sent to the past by a transporter accident (Past Tense). Then, there's a number of trips to the mirror universe (but these aren't actually accidents, I suppose).
"Compensate"
Whenever a piece of tech is being jammed, interfered with, or just acting up..."attempting to compensate"...
They never explained how they are "compensating". If radiation is clogging up your sensors and a few buttons pushed compensates, then why the hell isn't the computer just doing that anyway?
Whenever a piece of tech is being jammed, interfered with, or just acting up..."attempting to compensate"...
They never explained how they are "compensating". If radiation is clogging up your sensors and a few buttons pushed compensates, then why the hell isn't the computer just doing that anyway?
That's related to questions like why they still need to carry around PADDs to other officers with info when they could all be interconnected into the ship's 24th century equivalent of wifi. Probably just to have jobs for everyone
TDaTL isn't a transporter accident episode though, and that wasn't an accident to begin with, as you noted. It could just as easily have been a different sort of "accident" in any case, really.
I'll give you "Past Tense" though. That one manages to be both a transporter accident episode and a time travel episode! Two tropes for the price of one! And yet somehow still a very good episode!
Someone in a Voyager thread reminded me of the big waste of food aboard Voyager. Crew is about to enjoy dinner or a meal of some kind and you know it is unlikely that they will finish their meals. They are called away by an emergency.
At least aboard Voyager no one seems to be sorry because it was food prepared by Neelix. Rodeo red's red hot rootin' tootin' chili made crewmen sick.... Getting away from Neelix' food seems to be a running gag.
Janeway isn't able to finish her cup of coffee and Jean-Luc isn't able to finish his Earl Grey Tea because duty calls etc. etc. Not to mention unfinished Trek breakfasts......
At least aboard Voyager no one seems to be sorry because it was food prepared by Neelix. Rodeo red's red hot rootin' tootin' chili made crewmen sick.... Getting away from Neelix' food seems to be a running gag.
Janeway isn't able to finish her cup of coffee and Jean-Luc isn't able to finish his Earl Grey Tea because duty calls etc. etc. Not to mention unfinished Trek breakfasts......
This is one that has bugged me about movies and TV shows for most of my life
If I had a dollar for every time a 'dinner scene' in a show or movie begins with characters serving/ordering their food, sitting around a table delivering expository dialogue at each other, then getting up and leaving at the end of the scene... (bonus points if, at no point during all of this, do they actually pick up any of the food and eat it 
)
The replicators can always recycle any food that isn't eaten.
Explain.
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