Things that don't add up the TNG edition
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Oh I had some nasty ideas in mind. Locking onto enemy troops and not transporting them but rather dispersing them right there on the spot. Also their equipment. With a transporter you could lock onto them and then disperse their atoms on the spot without going through the full process.
That's kind of what I meant too. I was just avoiding being graphic lol
Oh you shouldn't be afraid to be graphic lol.
I love that line in Enterprise when they found the Klingons who went into the Delphic Expanse and they were "anatomically inverted" which makes me think somehow they were turned inside out. Like the thing on Galaxy Quest.
I think that's a bit overstating matters regarding Worf as he's trying really hard to raise Alexander the right way but has no idea how to do that. The fact he's raising him on a Federation ship with Federation values and eventually says, "You should be raised by my parents who were decent, kind, and wonderful people" is his attempt to do the best he can by him. Ironically, it's the latter that makes Alexander want to be a Klingon-warrior.
Voyager did that to a Borg vessel in "Dark Frontier" IIRC.
Under normal combat situations transporters tend to be useless given that vessels have shields...and once the shields are down, unless you have a specific goal in mind, normal weapons are devastating in any case.
...The real question here, and in Trek in general, is why nobody keeps their shields up.
I mean, they might be power hogs and all. But even during combat missions, shields are down until the very last moment, and sometimes only raised after the enemy starts firing. We don't know why, but that's just part of the issue. Regardless of the whys and hows, should this not directly mean that transporters are the superior and preferable weapons, as they can be fired from ambush to devastating effect that is only noticed "afterwards", that is, when your ship blows up or your captain turns inside out?
Timo Saloniemi
I mean, they might be power hogs and all. But even during combat missions, shields are down until the very last moment, and sometimes only raised after the enemy starts firing. We don't know why, but that's just part of the issue. Regardless of the whys and hows, should this not directly mean that transporters are the superior and preferable weapons, as they can be fired from ambush to devastating effect that is only noticed "afterwards", that is, when your ship blows up or your captain turns inside out?
Timo Saloniemi
Why don't characters have beards in episodes like Final Mission where they are stranded for over a day?
In TNG, Worf is a bit of a jerk sometimes but it always seems like he's at least making an effort to be a father. What makes him a terrible father is when DS9 starts and Alexander is just abandoned back with his parents.
In TNG, Worf is a bit of a jerk sometimes but it always seems like he's at least making an effort to be a father. What makes him a terrible father is when DS9 starts and Alexander is just abandoned back with his parents.
So if no one ever raises shields till the worst moment why don't the bad guys ever lob a few pot shots in to do some major damage?
Spock should have had the wildest beard ever in ST3!
Maybe they take anti-beard pills.
Well, except Vulcans, who shave using fancy razor blades with no shaving cream in ice water while blind
We expect Wesley to grow a visible beard in "Final Mission"?
The other two characters did have stubble.
The usual problem with beards on castaways isn't that they'd be missing, it's that they are a tad too tidy for somebody who only has access to phasers but not knives... But if they do have the means of trimming their beards, then it makes sense for them to have beards (trimming is easier than shaving smooth) and for their hair to be manageably short, too.
(Then there's the dirty face trope, which sort of tries to compensate for the inability to show stubble of appropriate length. Why don't these people clean up their faces? If alone, they may be excused, but the trio of "Final Mission" would have psychological motivation to simply wipe their faces with the easily available soft clothing every now and then. Be they sweaty or dry, the realistic result would be skin that looks more or less clean in the dark cave sets they are dwelling in, not the grease pit effect we actually see. Yet improved budgets and makeup techniques result in more grease pits after the as such acceptable "Final Mission", not fewer...)
Timo Saloniemi
The other two characters did have stubble.
The usual problem with beards on castaways isn't that they'd be missing, it's that they are a tad too tidy for somebody who only has access to phasers but not knives... But if they do have the means of trimming their beards, then it makes sense for them to have beards (trimming is easier than shaving smooth) and for their hair to be manageably short, too.
(Then there's the dirty face trope, which sort of tries to compensate for the inability to show stubble of appropriate length. Why don't these people clean up their faces? If alone, they may be excused, but the trio of "Final Mission" would have psychological motivation to simply wipe their faces with the easily available soft clothing every now and then. Be they sweaty or dry, the realistic result would be skin that looks more or less clean in the dark cave sets they are dwelling in, not the grease pit effect we actually see. Yet improved budgets and makeup techniques result in more grease pits after the as such acceptable "Final Mission", not fewer...)
Timo Saloniemi
Well..it seems we´re going to find out about that in Picard...
I thought he eats and that recharges him somehow..
Hey maybe phasers have a "shave setting" since they can do just about anything else.
From "Birthright", eating "lubricates [Data's] biofunctions". From ST:Insurrection, his "power cells continually recharge themselves".
I'd guess all Federation facilities simply have a good wireless recharging network available, keeping things like PADDs and phasers and androids constantly charged. It is only when these things move outside established facilities that Ron Tracey needs to ask for phaser clips or the besieged of AR-558 need to check their batteries before battle, or Data needs to start worrying about his next power resupply. But Data might have bigger batteries than a phaser or a PADD does, not needing to worry for the first sixteen months or so.
Timo Saloniemi
I'd guess all Federation facilities simply have a good wireless recharging network available, keeping things like PADDs and phasers and androids constantly charged. It is only when these things move outside established facilities that Ron Tracey needs to ask for phaser clips or the besieged of AR-558 need to check their batteries before battle, or Data needs to start worrying about his next power resupply. But Data might have bigger batteries than a phaser or a PADD does, not needing to worry for the first sixteen months or so.
Timo Saloniemi
I suspect that a phaser consumes more energy (if used) than Data does under- taking typical activities.
I've always wondered why they aren't making the equivalent of clone armies, or making every crewmember "back up" their patterns on a weekly or monthly basis, just in case something happens to them.
I'm surprised 24th Century medicine they don't have backups of people's organs in case of accident's / emergencies stored in some kind of buffer.
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