WTF Moments

[Snaploud]

Given that they're on a Starfleet vessel it's entirely possible they signed away those rights.

Yeah, they probably had to sign something. Of course, I'm sure everybody would agree with this one (once explained to them).

"So...they want to kill us all..."

"Can we fight them?"

"Sure...we'd die...but sure..."

"Ummmm...so, what's plan B?"

"We just need to have our own doctors remove our memories of the aliens."

"Okay...that sounds a lot better than death...Count me in..."

I really can't see anybody saying no. Plus, it's not as if Picard hasn't earned a bit of trust by this point... It's half-way through season four.

 

[sbk1234]

Half a Life. David Ogden Stire's character is from a planet where people are put to death at 60. I think it was a great idea for an episode, and it was the first time I didn't hate Lwaxana's character, but isn't that a little young? It's only 2010, and both of my parents are much older than that, and still have a lot of life in them. I know that was the point of the episode, but in a futuristic society where lifespans are generally well over 100, that would be like killing someone before middle age.

 

[diankra]

Homeward: the whole idea that the Prime Directive says that if a culture can't be saved, the people should be left to die.
On that argument, it was pointless to save the European jews whose long-standing cultures were destroyed by the Nazis, there was no point in... well basically, refugees should be left to die when the society in which they grew up is destroyed. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

 

[Volvic]

It has to be the clone killing scene in Up The Long Ladder, but the weird thing is it wasn't the fact that Riker killed the clones that got me as I thought at that point in time it was quite in character for him to do that. It was the fact that Pulaski - a doctor no less - agreed to it. That one really raised my eyebrows.

After that it has to be Picard's actions in Homeward and the entire episode of Genesis that made me do a double take.

 

[xortex]

I said this somewhere else but did anyone notice once Riker stepping over a chair to sit down in the ready room. Talk about WTF.

 

[6079SmithW]

In "The Outrageous Okana" when Okana is getting ready to beam over and we hear the female transporter officer's voice and he says something like, "Excuse me, Captain, but is that a woman?" I was like "WTF?". I swear that even for a brief moment Picard face was "...?" Its understandable in the context of his character but still a WTF moment when you are watching the episode for the first time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Clues."

In order to satisfy an extremely xenophobic race, Picard orders everybody's (except Data's) memories of the xenophobes erased. Wow. Personal liberties, much? Did they forget to put a Guarantee in the Federation Constitution?

Personal liberties are no good if you're dead. Which is what the aliens would have done to the crew if Picard had not done what he did.

 

[T'Girl]

"Masks", the entire episode.

Same here. I wasn't sure was I supposed to laugh, cry, or just stare at the screen in uncomfortable silence. As much as I love TNG, I have no idea what was up with that ep...

It maybe that I've just missed it, but I think Sy-Fy "forgets" to run that episode in it's TNG slot.

Half a Life. David Ogden Stire's character is from a planet where people are put to death at 60. I think it was a great idea for an episode, and it was the first time I didn't hate Lwaxana's character, but isn't that a little young? It's only 2010, and both of my parents are much older than that, and still have a lot of life in them. I know that was the point of the episode, but in a futuristic society where lifespans are generally well over 100, that would be like killing someone before middle age.

Logan's Run killed you on your twenty-first birthday. The custom of death at sixty may have originated centuries before when sixty was a advanced age for these people and the custom simply remains in effect.

 

[DonIago]

For that matter, sixty years on their planet could be 300 years on Earth.

 

[RAMA]

"Masks", the entire episode.

Same here. I wasn't sure was I supposed to laugh, cry, or just stare at the screen in uncomfortable silence. As much as I love TNG, I have no idea what was up with that ep...

It maybe that I've just missed it, but I think Sy-Fy "forgets" to run that episode in it's TNG slot.

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I absolutely love Masks!! Its an awesome episode. I watched it in its original run with my sister(who was only briefly interested in ST), both of us interested or having a background in archaeology and we had the opposite reaction..every scene was a joy, and Spiner should have been nominated for an Emmy. My WTF moment was about 2 years ago on this board when I found out a lot of people didnt like the episode..up till then I thought it was universally considered one of the top episodes of STNG.

RAMA

 

[sbk1234]

"Masks", the entire episode.

Same here. I wasn't sure was I supposed to laugh, cry, or just stare at the screen in uncomfortable silence. As much as I love TNG, I have no idea what was up with that ep...

It maybe that I've just missed it, but I think Sy-Fy "forgets" to run that episode in it's TNG slot.

Half a Life. David Ogden Stire's character is from a planet where people are put to death at 60. I think it was a great idea for an episode, and it was the first time I didn't hate Lwaxana's character, but isn't that a little young? It's only 2010, and both of my parents are much older than that, and still have a lot of life in them. I know that was the point of the episode, but in a futuristic society where lifespans are generally well over 100, that would be like killing someone before middle age.

Logan's Run killed you on your twenty-first birthday. The custom of death at sixty may have originated centuries before when sixty was a advanced age for these people and the custom simply remains in effect.

Logan's Run, which killed you at 21 in the book, 30 in the film did so to carefully balance and maintain a highly ordered society. In fact, most of the people didn't even know they were getting zapped, or certainly why.

I do get why they may have started at 60, but it was still a WTF moment for me. The closer I get to 60 now, the bigger WTF it continues to become!

 

[Red Ranger]

My tongue-in-cheek WTF moments:

Data's beard.

Picard's poetry recital in Menage A Troi.

Worf smashing Geordi's instrument in Q-Pid, then saying "sorry."

 

[Itisnotlogical]

The way that Data planned to infect the Borg in I, Borg. I had to pause the DVD and stare at the screen for a few minutes to try and understand how that shape could not exist in normal space. It's been a while, but the object looked perfectly normal, unlike the Penrose triangle or devil's tuning fork, which I think would have been much much harder to assimilate.

 

[DonIago]

Well, in IB the shape was only shown on a two-dimensional screen, who knows what it -really- looked like?

 

[Itisnotlogical]

^^
I don't think there's any kind of screen *other* than a 2d screen.

 

[6079SmithW]

When Riker and Worf go over to the Yamato and there are two bridges and Worf starts over-reacting. "A starship has on bridge! One! Not two! Rooooaaarrrr!" or something like that. I was thinking, "Geez, calm down Worf."

When Crusher and Troi are exercising in the hallway with the mirrors. Two WTFs. First, WTF is up with the space workout suits? They don't have normal gym clothes in the future? Second, how are they allowed to BLOCK a corridor of a starship?! WTF! Aren't there regulations about this stuff? So I guess all other officers are denied access to this hallway when Crusher and Troi workout?

 

[Red Ranger]

^I just had a WTF moment when you claimed Beverly and Deanna were working out in the corridor. I really don't remember that!

 

[6079SmithW]

^ I'm pretty sure that's what happened although it has been a long time since I've seen TNG.

 

[Trekker4747]

"Thank you sir, I understand."

The computer to Data in "Conspiracy."

It's the only time in all of TNG the computer displays any kind of "sentience" or at the very least annoyance with the user. All other times it's very "computery" in its responses and interaction with the characters to the point where characters actually tell the computer to shut-up when it responds to questions not asked to it.

Yet, in this episode Data is rambling on, talking essentialy to himself, and the computer grows so annoyed with him it tells him to shut-up.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Reminds me of that bit in BSG-TOS when Baltar is out in a Cylon fighter and the two Cylons with him spot the Pegasus. They try to get his attention, but they talk like humans would, like "Sir, I really think you should take a look at this".... with those Cylon voices it just sounded so .