If only John Finn's ''Now you're learning, boyo'' was sufficiently on topic.
So, back to that glove. Joe Tormolen, 23rd Century's greatest dingbat. But at least he didn't turn his back on a knifing Andorian.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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So, back to that glove. Joe Tormolen, 23rd Century's greatest dingbat. But at least he didn't turn his back on a knifing Andorian.
People screw up in the real world all the time. Space is dangerous, they are encountering unknown things all the time.
He obviously shouldn't have done it, but people make mistakes and it's simply the inciting incident for the drama.
I'm aware. I've screwed up a lot in my life.
There are just certain "inciting incidents" that break suspension of disbelief for me. This is one of them.
Others have others. This is SF DEBRIS stupidest scene in Star Trek for him: it's from Deep Space Nine and he's more known for lambasting Voyager ahs Enterprise more than Deep Space Nine but this scene tops his list.
Now you are getting it.
No excuses.
Look into the Spanish Flu of 1918...
Then look into the Black death...
The point being is that you don't take the wrong kind of short cuts.
And at least one of you didn't remember that the Buffalo Bills went to the Superbowl four times and lost four times.
Remember that 'professional ' sports are entertainment, and therefore subject to criticism.
It can be argued that the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, was in the position of being the first, going to Strange New Worlds, the Chief Engineer, explained something had to so different from the expected, that it wouldn't be removed from the transporter. In other words impossible.
There are no proper excuses for contamination being brought onboard.
Therefore no stories. Unless you like the idea that the crew is too involved in focusing on chatting about non issues instead of their jobs.
These are supposed to be professionals, not high-school students on a responsible field trip.
Such that depicting them as anything other than proper professionals is a trope - in words Bad News.
Which means that a common Tricorder at any point, should be hot to trot. Otherwise why use a piece of junk?
In the case of 'The Naked Time ', the crew of the research outpost, was killed by something. That should have brought the Tricorder to full alert, overriding normal concerns. Meaning that it would have gone, let's say from a low resolution mode, to an immediate very high resolution mode. Just to determine the actual cause of death.
But once the shouting was over, it would have become normal to scan for hypothetical variants of something similar.
Another part of the protocol that should have been involved, no beam ups until resolved.
To all of this another way we already have protocols in place.
No excuses.
Look into the Spanish Flu of 1918...
Then look into the Black death...
The point being is that you don't take the wrong kind of short cuts.
And at least one of you didn't remember that the Buffalo Bills went to the Superbowl four times and lost four times.
Remember that 'professional ' sports are entertainment, and therefore subject to criticism.
It can be argued that the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, was in the position of being the first, going to Strange New Worlds, the Chief Engineer, explained something had to so different from the expected, that it wouldn't be removed from the transporter. In other words impossible.
There are no proper excuses for contamination being brought onboard.
Therefore no stories. Unless you like the idea that the crew is too involved in focusing on chatting about non issues instead of their jobs.
These are supposed to be professionals, not high-school students on a responsible field trip.
Such that depicting them as anything other than proper professionals is a trope - in words Bad News.
Which means that a common Tricorder at any point, should be hot to trot. Otherwise why use a piece of junk?
In the case of 'The Naked Time ', the crew of the research outpost, was killed by something. That should have brought the Tricorder to full alert, overriding normal concerns. Meaning that it would have gone, let's say from a low resolution mode, to an immediate very high resolution mode. Just to determine the actual cause of death.
But once the shouting was over, it would have become normal to scan for hypothetical variants of something similar.
Another part of the protocol that should have been involved, no beam ups until resolved.
To all of this another way we already have protocols in place.
As illustrated earlier in your post about the Bills, professionals screw up all the time.
To quote a friend of mine, "Without it there wouldn't be any draama."
Realism is not even remotely the point of high level story telling. All fiction is non-realistic to a very high degree because unfiltered reality doesn't make for good stories.
Also, judging a story based on how realistic it is and nothing more is the definition of putting Form over Substance.
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