Things in Trek that make me go "gah"!

[Myasishchev]

Yamato, though, is also the poetic name for Japan, like Columbia for the United States, but more widely used.

I know what it means. Enola Gay was named after Paul Tibbet's mom, whom I am sure was a very nice lady. But the most famous objects to bear the names were engaged in activities usually categorized as "unpleasant."

But like I said, I find the rehabilitative effect of a few centuries interesting. As you alluded to, few today mind that Coumbia OV-102 or the fictional NX-02 are named after a rock-stupid atrocity-monger, who would measure the distance to Alpha Centauri in light-years but use Pluto to measure the year, and when and if he got there be unable to be convinced that it wasn't India. The name sounds pretty, and the OV-102 is still sorta pretty cool, in a smaller-than-life sort of way.

So, with that in mind, where the heck is the USS Bismarck? I'll even take a Tirpitz. (But of course we can hypothesize about their absence--Trek writers were either not familiar with Japanese atrocities, or believed their audience was not, and so considered IJN boats "safe," while DKM vessels were smeared with the far more famous crimes of Nazism.)

 

[Solarbaby]

My biggest problem is that there has never been any toilet scenes in Trek.

If its toilet scenes you want check out Face of the Enema

http://goanimate.com/movie/0ILPrlZpEhOw/1

 

[Solarbaby]

The fact that earth is so defenceless at all. Every time it has been threatened it has needed ships. Ships that aren't there. This is the most important planet in the Federation as it has the command structure for Starfleet, the UFP HQ. Not to mention 100s of embassies that I'm sure their governments would want protection for.

How much security is there round the white house? Or the United Nation buildings? And they are just based in a country without threats of alien orbital attacks.

It's absurd nonsense that there is no defence. I have seen offscreen mention of defence grids but what is that? Is it even effective considering we never saw it? In Best of Both Worlds 3 torpedo thingies are fired from Mars or Jupiter. Is that all we have?

Earth is asking to be blown up. No wonder the Dominion were able to attack. I'm surprised they didn't do more damage. There must have been a lot of Fed ships in orbit on that occasion.