What immediately bugs you when watching an episode? Mine is when they transport someone sitting down and they reintegrate in a standing position (or vice versa). Sure, the tech is near magical but my suspension of disbelief pretty much snaps when they do this.
Plots that would have been resolved if there was just a basic security camera installed.
The entire mirror universe.
Also the lack of an all Ferengi spinoff show.
My experience is mainly limited to TNG, but they have a terrible quarantine protocol when it comes to the danger of alien microbes/parasites/diseases/conditions.
I don’t just mean like requiring that the ground party should be forced to isolate after every field mission, but there are so many episodes where someone comes back from a planet with some strange illness, they take forever to even report something wrong, and even after they go to the med bay and determine “We have no idea what this is,” other members of the crew just visit and interact with no precautions, or sometimes even let the sick person just wander wherever on the ship if whatever they have isn’t debilitating.
Medical should have a large, dedicated, airgapped space similar to the brig where they can keep people for observation when there is suspicion of infection. And everyone should be suited up when interacting with any patients there.
Just beaming down to a new planet and raw-dogging the atmosphere is bad science! Makes me crazy!
Hey, it was good enough for Prometheus, it’s good enough for Star Trek!
I feel like the idea is their scans are so comprehensive as to make it unnecessary. You would think considering how often the scans fail they would do it but its been awhile so the question in my head is how soon the thing shows up. Im almost sure there have been some that are quick but others that such precautions would still not catch. All the same it would have been good for it to have taken either a real long time in every instance or required some interaction with something to activate it or something.
One thing on TNG that always bugs me is when they know something is wrong or they lose contact with Starfleet personnel, and the Enterprise goes to warp 7 instead of maximum warp! It’s not until there’s an extreme emergency that they go to maximum, and often they could have avoided that emergency by showing up a half hour earlier. I know they came up with the whole warp speed limit thing, but it’s still something I notice.
Something that’s not an in-universe thing but still bugs me is the writer’s lack of acknowledgement of three dimensional space and orbital mechanics. It’s an issue with much of science fiction though.
Not enough moopsies
The lack of immortality. Sure, you could go the, “We have found that the distinct possibility of death makes life more meaningful” BS, but really - would it take that much power to have someone step into a transporter each night before bed (like taking a very short shower), get buffered, and then sleep? Next day: “Oh no! Lt. Promiscuous has been decapitated! Oh well, beam her back to life and update her on the last 5 hours and we’re good to go again.”
I get it that for plot purposes, that can’t be a thing. But there should be a very good explanation as to why it’s not being done.
So the episode with scotty in the next generation he invented a way for the pattern to not degrade. Its supposed to be relatively short term and have only so much capacity. Even during transport when their are issues it suggest they can lose the buffer. Im relatively accepting of it on that point.
In Strange New Worlds, which is set earlier than Scotty could have invented that, the doctor keeps patients in the pattern buffer when their condition is deteriorating and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. It’s presented as janky and his own invention, and not necessarily harmless.
No personal forcefield integrated with communication badge (even if it only got the energy to withstand one phaser blast).
Just once in a Star Trek episode, I’d like to see the antagonist try to seduce a crew member and be told “you’re not my type.” The ENT episode “Rajiin” was especially ridiculous in this area.
My biggest thing from the start of tng is just that data is to good. stronger and more damage resistant than worf, smarter than anyone except maybe debatably weasely, all his limitations seem to fall away, virtually immortal. Also the same thing with holograms which became just to overall powerful when they had portable emmitters that they could carry themselves.
Accelerating the ship never pins anyone to the rear wall. I don’t care if the have gravity plates or whatever in the floor.
It’s inertial dampeners. The gravity plating makes them stick to the floor. The inertial dampeners dampen the inertia.
They have a room in the middle for decontamination and position change.
With all the weird logic gaps that transporters introduce every other episode, that’s the one you chose to nitpick? 😂
