That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.
Fed up, or desperate to add an emotional kick to the pants. (See the Defiant getting rocked by the Borg cube in First Contact, with no noticeable damage on DS9, but getting taken out by the Breen, only to be replaced two weeks later, with only new carpet to show for it.)
So… back to normal in a week?
Plot armor is still at 100%, so we’re safe for now.
Ablative plot armor. Hmm. Wonder if there’s meme potential in that? 🤔
That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.
Fed up, or desperate to add an emotional kick to the pants. (See the Defiant getting rocked by the Borg cube in First Contact, with no noticeable damage on DS9, but getting taken out by the Breen, only to be replaced two weeks later, with only new carpet to show for it.)
Aren’t those redshirts?
I’m more like the NX-01 where the damage doesn’t get rebooted between episodes.
No, the NX-01 uses a B’Elanna space station like Roddenberry intended.
Still ends up doing just fine as-is though.
Hmmmmm… Maybe every enterprise has a q “secretly” working in engineering and everyone pretends they don’t know?
* a few hours
A week in terms of when we saw the previous episode. When it first aired anyway.