Top Ten Dumbest Things Starfleet Does
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At the beginning they seemed to insinuate that they would regularly separate the ship to take care of that, but it very rarely happened.Nutso wrote:I don't like that there are children on ships that engage in violent space battles.
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That was a bad plan all around anyways. If the Stardrive Section gets destroyed then the Saucer is going to be a sitting duck without warp.
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Now to be fair, given that they have exploding consoles, I wouldn't want to be strapped down in front of one with a seatbeltLazar wrote:No seatbelts.
Exploding consoles.
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It was probably the only way they could keep her off a starship... Although I bet she pissed off a few species by flying a desk...Nutso wrote:Promoted Janeway to Admiral over Picard.
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What they should have done is make the consoles dumb terminals and put all the explodey workings underneath the chair - instant ejector seat.sunnyside wrote:Now to be fair, given that they have exploding consoles, I wouldn't want to be strapped down in front of one with a seatbeltLazar wrote:No seatbelts.
Exploding consoles.
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I think sitting my nuts on something that explodes is probably worse than having it blow up in my facekostmayer wrote:
What they should have done is make the consoles dumb terminals and put all the explodey workings underneath the chair - instant ejector seat.
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That is called "motivation" or why else you think they always strife for a diplomatic solution?sunnyside wrote:I think sitting my nuts on something that explodes is probably worse than having it blow up in my facekostmayer wrote:
What they should have done is make the consoles dumb terminals and put all the explodey workings underneath the chair - instant ejector seat.
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"Engisn, are you trying to start a fight with these people?"Atekimogus wrote:That is called "motivation" or why else you think they always strife for a diplomatic solution?
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Here's one: making engineering decks out of shatterable glass. In "Heart of Glory", the Klingon is on one of the upper engineering decks, Worf shoots him with a phaser, and the mere force of him falling over is enough to shatter the floor plate that he was standing on, and he falls down into main engineering. I just saw this episode the other day, and I immediately thought, Jesus Christ, this is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in Star Trek. They could have used transparent aluminum, or even plexiglass, but they had to use shatterable glass? So let's say Crewman Joe is up there replacing some self sealing stem bolts and then he trips over his flux capacitor, so he shatters through the floor and falls to his death? Who the hell designed this starship?
Not to mention the fact that they just popped the Klingons in the brig in their full armor, without bothering to notice that they had the components to disable the forcefield and build a disruptor. And the fact that they trusted this easily breakable forcefield so much that they didn't even bother to put up a solid door. And the fact that once the Klingon guy escaped from the brig, he was able to just wander down to main engineering and point his disruptor at the warp core without anyone, or the ship's automatic security systems, stopping him. Honestly, any redeeming feature about this episode was ruined by these mind numbingly stupid story elements. But then again, it's really my fault for watching a first season episode.
Not to mention the fact that they just popped the Klingons in the brig in their full armor, without bothering to notice that they had the components to disable the forcefield and build a disruptor. And the fact that they trusted this easily breakable forcefield so much that they didn't even bother to put up a solid door. And the fact that once the Klingon guy escaped from the brig, he was able to just wander down to main engineering and point his disruptor at the warp core without anyone, or the ship's automatic security systems, stopping him. Honestly, any redeeming feature about this episode was ruined by these mind numbingly stupid story elements. But then again, it's really my fault for watching a first season episode.
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I can't help but wonder how lazy the writers must be to fail so hard at making interesting stories with competent characters. Why must Starfleet be so fucking stupid in order to make a good story? They don't have to be, the writers just suck.
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Open access to all areas of the ship - engineering, etc, with no doors or security checkpoints
The commonplace sending of high ranking officers on away missions (without even an armed security escort)
Extreme pacifism, to the idiotic point of ceding territory to the vastly weaker CU.
The commonplace sending of high ranking officers on away missions (without even an armed security escort)
Extreme pacifism, to the idiotic point of ceding territory to the vastly weaker CU.
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Leaving the "keys" in the shuttle craft and keeping them on flight standby, unsupervised.
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Hell, TNG once demonstrated children running amok in "secure" engineering decks!Mark wrote:Leaving the "keys" in the shuttle craft and keeping them on flight standby, unsupervised.
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