Star Trek clichés?
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Agreed. Add to this all the new characters that get added only be conveniently disposed of Decker & Ilia - assimilated by V'Ger. Oh, hey - Kirk's got a grown son he (maybe) didn't know existed - oh, wait, not anymore he doesn't. Spock's got a bright young protégé - oh, right we just left her on Vulcan never to be seen again so she can be replaced by a less interesting character two movies later.
Maybe I missed it, but when Kirk teaches love and how to make it with any passing stranger he finds and yet doesn't have any communicable diseases... or infects an entire planet, there's an after school special or three just waiting to happen there.
Tap a communicator badge or whatever, and you're instantly in touch with the desired party. Every time. No busy signal. No lag. No delay. Ever. And nobody else cuts in while you're on the line.
And the flip side:
PICARD: Picard to Riker?
RIKER: (one second silence)
PICARD: Computer? Locate Commander Riker.
COMPUTER: Commander Riker is urinating in his bathroom. Urinalysis: electrolyte balance optimal. Specific gravity .05. Toxicology report--
PICARD: Yes yes.
Sheesh! Even I need a moment to swipe to answer...
And the flip side:
PICARD: Picard to Riker?
RIKER: (one second silence)
PICARD: Computer? Locate Commander Riker.
COMPUTER: Commander Riker is urinating in his bathroom. Urinalysis: electrolyte balance optimal. Specific gravity .05. Toxicology report--
PICARD: Yes yes.
Sheesh! Even I need a moment to swipe to answer...
This annoys me. It's not proper radio protocol. Worse, people in the service tend to do this, and we have to beat it into their heads it's wrong.
The proper way is to say whom you are calling, preferably twice, to get their attention, and then state who you are. You then wait for acknowledgement before continuing. Some exceptions apply, such as air traffic control.
Another example of why it fails the reality check:
Riker hits his badge: "The shuttle's been damaged; beam the pilot out of there right now, Chief O'Brien!"
Down in Transporter Room One, all O'Brien hears is Riker's voice saying ".... O'Brien!", so he responds with: "I'm here, Commander, what do you need?"
I mean, until the communicator knows who you're calling, how does it know where to route the call?? Does it record everything you say and send it on a delay? Okay, so even if it does, the crew needed to be beamed out right flipping now, not on a five-second delay. Bad radio protocol can (and HAS) cost people their lives.
Seat belts or restraining harnesses. There are none, no one ever buckled on, neither on a ship nor on a shuttle. But in the novels there a safety belts and people are also ordered to use them.
I guess the lack of those security measures was for effect: to kill off as many reshirts or non-essential personell as possible.
No toilets, no seat belts. I don't want to be stuck in a shuttle for a long time, having a rough trip.....
I guess the lack of those security measures was for effect: to kill off as many reshirts or non-essential personell as possible.
No toilets, no seat belts. I don't want to be stuck in a shuttle for a long time, having a rough trip.....
This is one that has bugged me about movies and TV shows for most of my life
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That's just the logistics of filmmaking. Anytime you see an actor eat something in a movie, there was probably 10 takes of that same shot that just got binned. Sometimes they spit it between takes. Sometimes they have to swallow. Oh, and by the end, that food has been sitting out for hours.
So even if they eat an actual meal, they may even lift the fork, but you almost never see them take the bite.
Though, to your point, there's more eloquent ways of handling those issues than sit-talk-get up and leave.
Oh. And inertial dampers go off-line yet no one is crushed to death or turned into salsa. Urrgh!!!!
A single global culture and language on alien planets. Also, all members of a species having the same general personality traits.
In a critical situation, the type of technology that is most needed will choose that particular moment to go down.
In a critical situation, the type of technology that is most needed will choose that particular moment to go down.
The TMP refit bridge chairs had restraints: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=63649&fullsize=1
As does the Kelvin Enterprise: http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=79323&fullsize=1
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=761&pid=79422#top_display_media
And the TNG shuttlepod in "Power Play": http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-5/5x15/power-play-hd-025.jpg
Have you ever seen anyone onscreen strapping in? If so, where?
Yes.
In TMP, Kirk pushes the armchair restraints down onto his lap when the ship enters a wormhole.
In INTO DARKNESS, we see Spock and the bridge crew activate their restraints while the ship is plummeting down toward Earth.
Also, in TAS "Once Upon a Planet," after the artificial gravity has failed:
screencap - http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/109-BR/onceuponaplanethd0385.jpg
Deanna Troi in love with an ambassador, but the ambassador is not who he seems to be.
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???
Yet when the plot requires it, it is also suprisingly easy to crossconnect any technology with your own, be it 29th century technology 500 years more advanced than anything you've got, a Borg component you've never seen before, some Delta quadrant technology gadget from a race you know nothing about …..
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