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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
That's the biggest problem with Berman style Star Trek. Too many of the plot solutions are ultimately solved through technobabble (deus ex machina) rather than good writing.
Everyone is also too smart on the show to be believable (unless they are Spock, Data, or genetically engineered Bashir).
It's so believable that goofy frat-boy ex-con Tom Paris also happens to be a genius warp engineer and becomes the first one to create working trans-warp instead of some nerd yellowshirt down in stellar cartography or something...
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In Federation prisons of the future, part of your rehabilitation is that you have to take a docterate level course in advanced warp theory and design, as well as anger management.
Its not like you have to clean the showers or sweep the floors in the future.
I never once saw anyone clean the head in the Star Trek Universe. In fact, I never once saw a head. I remember seeing a episode with Troi where she went into her cabin washed her face and then took a bath, but there was nowhere to sit down. Did they engineer pooping out of the human species?
Here's another thing that burned me big time.
Everyone on the enterprise, or DS9, or Voyager was officer ranked. Usually on a USNS there is about 1 officer for every 20 men on average. In the United Federation of planets, I think there were 30 enlisted ranks in the whole Navy, and they were all Chiefs, no seamen, no leading seamen, all fricken chiefs.
So at the end of the day, you had one poor enlisted guy getting screamed at by 450 officers.
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And the Captain and First officer going on away missions together. First of all, you'd never send the Captain on an away mission, and if you did you wouldn't put the rest of the command staff in jeopardy with him.
At least Enterprise put in the idea of MACO's. Where was the Marine detachment on the Enterprise, oh no they got some red shirt from Xenobiology to beam down, the poor ####### was probably so busy studying plants 24 hours a day that when he finally got a phaser he pointed the handle end at the enemy and the shooting end at his face. No wonder red shirts were killed in great numbers.
I know its a T.V. show, but the little details of the Star Trek Universe just bug the crap out of me.
Picard - "Yes men, we're beaming down to a planet occupied by a Klingon Attack Force, Riker, Data, Crusher and Laforge, your with me, lets also take Ensign Ricky from Xenobiology, Ensign Braccck from Engineering, and Ensign Bouvier from Kitchen Services"
Riker - "Shouldn't we take someone from security, and a couple of non-coms who are good with guns"
Picard - "Shaddup Riker, you've been my XO for 12 years, now when I put this dog treat on your nose, you can amuse me by flipping it into your mouth"