I can’t forget how Picard ordered the ship to set course for the First City.That one time in TNG where Picard mentions "the Klingon Imperial Empire". Well, DUH!
Weird or "no shit" moments in Star Trek
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Imagine if the computer took it as literally as when Khan set the USS Vengeance's destination to Starfleet HQ
I seem to remember O'Brien entering Maxwell's ready room from a corridor, he might have beamed into the corridor and no one would have seen him.
Wouldn't they get a intruder alert though? Also I wonder what people on the bridge are thinking. You have been chased down by the Enterprise and for some reason the Captain isn't out on the bridge and isn't coming out of his ready room in what you must consider something of a big deal. Granted they went along with everything he did in that episode so something is kind of weird about his entire crew.
Jason
Weird
Enterprise...............Gazelle speech
Weirder
Enterprise again................Vulcan guy passing on result of a Water Polo match
Enterprise...............Gazelle speech
Weirder
Enterprise again................Vulcan guy passing on result of a Water Polo match
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Anytime Troi says, "I'm sensing _________." You fill in the blank.
That one time in TNG where Picard mentions "the Klingon Imperial Empire". Well, DUH!
What makes you think that there is only one independent interstellar state ruled by Klingons in the Star Trek universe? Why should a species as violent and treacherous and ambitious as Klingons not splinter their state into several different independent interstellar states?
Possibly there were so many different Klingon states that a phrase as long and complex as "The Klingon Imperial Empire" was needed to identify the correct one. Possibly "The Klingon Imperial Empire" was the English translation of the official name of that particular Klingon state, and possibly a flawed translation into English made 'imperial Empire" seem more redundant than the original Klingon name.
If a Star Trek species is considered the equivalent of a nationality on Earth, have you ever counted the number of independent Boer or Afrikaner states that existed during the 19th century, or the largest number of such states to exist at any one moment in time?
Do you know the greatest number of different Roman Empires that existed at the same time?
"Contagion", when they turn the Enterprise off and on again to purge the Iconian virus and act as though doing so is some revolutionary computer science
Considering that was, what? 1988? Most of us didn't even know what an Internet was, much less have any contact with anything remotely like a computer virus. Such a problem solution wasn't common knowledge yet. Today, that general solves 80% of computer issues. But in 1988? I wonder how many of us were still using the Apple IIe, IIc, or IIgs? Or the old Tandy 1000 and the like.
There's been at least three occasions where they imply Riker is fooling around with holograms. More than anyone else on the show (even Barclay).
I'm not even joking. The man has issues.
Four...ish? Usually there were two at a time, until the city of Rome (and the western empire with it) fell. From that point, until Mehmed conquered Constantinople in the 15th century, there was just one.
But I'm one of those people who consider the Holy Roman Empire neither holy nor Roman.
That's sort of given from the get-go, though. If the crew is in cahoots with him on what they are doing (and why wouldn't they be, when Kirk's crew basically invariably did what Kirk wanted?), they are pretty likely to agree with Maxwell's decision to sulk in his ready room at a key moment (again behavior with precedent, as Picard did that all the time). At this stage of Maxwell's plan, he's going to wait for Picard to take action anyway: there's little to be achieved by Maxwell actively doing something.
And yes, O'Brien enters from a space that is not the ship's bridge. Although what exactly he enters, we don't know - nowhere is it stated that this would be Maxwell's ready room, as opposed to his quarters, say.
In contrast, Janeway's ready room is a more or less known quantity. There's a side door that leads in the same direction as the portside bridge turbolift, so there might well be direct access through there. Most blueprints suggest this door would lead into a bathroom instead, and certainly Janeway could use one, but AFAIK the actual set features nothing there so all interpretations are possible. Including ones that negate the painfully obvious directing gaffe.
Timo Saloniemi
In 1204 the 4th Crusade conquered Constantinople and set up the Empire of Romania (Roman land) which is usually called the Latin Empire of Constantinople, and the crusaders grabbed as much land as they could for various fiefs, while various Roman lords seized control of various provinces and some of them proclaimed themselves emperors of the Romans.
So in about 1229 there were:
1) Empire with capital at Trebizond,
2) Empire with capital at Nicaea,
3) Empire with capital at Thessalonika,
4) Latin Empire,
5) Holy Roman Empire,
6) Bulgaria, whose monarch used the title of "Emperor of the Bulgarians and the Romans",
7) the Turkish Sultanate of Rum (Rome).
8) Wales, where the rulers of Gwynedd may have claimed to be Roman Emperors as successors of Constantine III.
Most people will not consider all of them to be Roman Empires.
From 1355 to 1371 there were:
1) Empire with capital at Trebizond,
2) "Restored Byzantine Empire", the former Empire with capital at Nicaea,
3) Serbia, whose ruler used the title of "Emperor of the Serbians and the Romans".
4) Thessaly, whose ruler used the title of "Emperor of the Serbians and the Romans".
5) Bulgaria-Tarnovo, whose ruler used the title of "Emperor of the Bulgarians and the Romans".
6) Bulgaria-Vidin, whose ruler used the title of "Emperor of the Bulgarians and the Romans".
7) Latin Empire.
8) Holy Roman Empire.
Most people will not consider all of them to be Roman Empires.
When Picard says in "Tapestry": "I'd rather die as the man I was than live like this one." or something to a similar effect...
I just found this idiotic and beyond weird. If he was the man he says he is he would accept the new life as a challenge and take it from there.
Choosing to be dead instead is just cowardly. Like when someone is accidented and loses some of his physical integrity, it's more courageous to try to make a new life for yourself than to just kill yourself because you can't stand the way you are, more so when you have people in charge and they're counting on you emotionally and materially. Worf had extenuating circumstances because his own culture told him that he should kill himself, yet he manages to overcome that finally and chooses the operation, which for Worf is a big step.
Picard's "I'd rather be dead than of lower rank" is just insulting for his own crew (most of whom will never get to be Captains) and incredibly pretentious.
I just found this idiotic and beyond weird. If he was the man he says he is he would accept the new life as a challenge and take it from there.
Choosing to be dead instead is just cowardly. Like when someone is accidented and loses some of his physical integrity, it's more courageous to try to make a new life for yourself than to just kill yourself because you can't stand the way you are, more so when you have people in charge and they're counting on you emotionally and materially. Worf had extenuating circumstances because his own culture told him that he should kill himself, yet he manages to overcome that finally and chooses the operation, which for Worf is a big step.
Picard's "I'd rather be dead than of lower rank" is just insulting for his own crew (most of whom will never get to be Captains) and incredibly pretentious.
The "Hours would seem like days" bit in Star Trek II always cracks me up every time because it's so belaboured (Spock obviously has no faith in Kirk spotting subtext), but it not only fools Khan but completely blows Saavik's mind. Even though she knows the regs and has already seen Kirk bullshit his way through a conversation.
Yes, my own theory is that Khan's prolonged stay on that hellish planet must have seriously damaged his brain because he keeps falling for these stupid tricks throughout the movie.
there can be no better description of picard than this.
i don't think khan's intelligence was ever as great as he made it out to be.
The holy and Roman parts were just branding for political gains. Damn people pointing out the truth and ruining glorious historical revisionism. 
I always had this weird "fourth wall" feeling with the following lines from All Good Things:
To me it often felt like the writers grabbed a last opportunity to include some criticism on their own characters they created over the last 7 years ...
To me it often felt like the writers grabbed a last opportunity to include some criticism on their own characters they created over the last 7 years ...
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