Trek Portrayals Of Futuristic War Is Unrealistic

It seemed like Data should have been the one flying the ship.

 

Realistic war would be boring as hell for the viewers. That's all she wrote.

 

Maybe the experience of the M5 fiasco ("The Ultimate Computer") soured Starfleet's attitude about AI.

 

Sisko in Sacrifice of Angels finds he has no choice but to try to punch through the Dominion lines. It's space, it's three-dimension and your ship has a cloaking device. Have you tried just going around the enemy fleet? If the goal was to get just one ship to DS9 to stop them from detonating the minefield, at least the Defiant could have done that. Or, for that matter, the freaking Klingons.

 

I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED there is unrealism in Star Trek!

 

Of course space warfare wouldn't be done the way in which it's depicted in Trek (and other sci-fi).

The whole idea of manned exploration of deep space is daft and outmoded in the first place. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth_of_the_starship.html

But pure technical realism isn't the point of Star Trek. The point is to have an entertaining experience that hopefully makes you think a little about humanity along the way. The point is also to make a bunch of money for the producers and the network, and turning Trek into a documentary on futurism just wouldn't have the same broad appeal as the light space opera approach.

Kor

 

If each drone could only assimilate 1 person per day, and each new drone could likewise assimilate 1 person per day, you're at 20 billion assimilations in 3 weeks. The math is easy.

 

It's a notable point that applies to many shows, i.e., using drones and androids, if not just robots, for dangerous tasks.

 

In real life, an adversary like the Borg could overwhelm the Earth with exponential-growth assimilation in a short time. An initial beachhead of ten thousand drones would be overkill. But, post "Q Who," when Q wasn't around to save them, the overriding factor being not to create a no-win scenario for the heroes, the writers had to gimp the Borg in some way.

ninja'd by @Maurice. (Such is the fate of a browser tab left open overnight.)

 

I fully agree, that's why I hate wars in StarTrek.

 

Can't say I blame them.