The internal sensors that could, if I recall, be fooled by just putting your commbadge on the floor in one episode. Me, I’d have them memorize and track any non-Federation being on the ship AT ALL TIMES. Also, the sensors couldn’t tell if you were just walking, or just walking with a machete and a funny smile. Cameras could.
Hence, the title of the MAD Magazine parody of that show: “Murder, She Hopes”.
So, who would be more dangerous to have as a friend?
a) Angela Landsbury
b) Jonathan & Jenifer Hart
I’m prepared to categorically state that, in four hundred years, we will not learn that man actually evolved from spiders.
Not so much an anoyyance as a bug…
I would have loved to see a point of view shot of what it was like to use/go through the teleporter. What does the user percieve… does one scene (teleporter room) fade/disolve to the new location or what?
In none of the various incarnations of the shows/movies did I ever see that.
FML
Actually, I’m pretty sure that there was a TNG episode – the Barclay one when he was afraid to use the transporter – that did exactly that.
No. The episode where we followed Barclay through the transporter and he saw giant killer squigglemonsters never happened. Never ever ever la la la.
I’ve been trying to follow this thread since it was only three pages long, but time (& my work schedule) haven’t always allowed me to add my comment. What I haven’t cared for, since the 1960’s is that the various captains have been allowed to hit on/have their ways with their opponents in order to advance the episode’s plot. Back in the late 1960’s, (I was a young female), it made me uncomfortable that Capt. Kirk could get his way & advance the confedation’s wishes by sleeping with some planet’s queen. Sorry, folks, I was never good with that.
Love, Phil
You must have really loved the TOS episode “Miri” then 
And automatically beam them into the brig during Red Alert.
Beam them into space…and chew vaccuum for a few seconds…if they give you any lip.
However do you mean?
For the same reason they don’t seem to have any weapons that fire beyond visual range; it’s not good TV.
Why don’t they have personal shield generators? Why are their uniforms so impractical? Why is the entire bridge so illogically designed? Why is it that sometimes you have to tap the communicator, and sometimes not? All good TV. Don’t try to explain it. 
Even good sci-fi series struggle with this. “Battlestar Galactica” makes “Star Trek” look like Barney, and yet there’s a million logical holes. How does the Battlestar Galactica not get vaporized by a nuclear weapon every time they fight the Cylons? They get hit by missiles and shit all the time. We know the Cylons have nuclear weapons. Why don’t the Cylons start with nukes and finish it off? With a good sized nuke you wouldn’t even have to HIT the ship. There’s no shields, at least none ever spoken of, in that universe.
Why do they seem to have lots of supplies most of the time? Where did Lee Adama’s perfectly tailored, pressed suit come from? If Cylons are undetectably similar to humans, how do they “Download” their souls across zillions of miles of space? Wouldn’t that require a transmitter?
Would be pretty bad TV if the Galactica was blown to smithereens in Episode 1, though.
From the link:
He wasn’t a romantic idiot in Amok Time, more like homicidal maniac.
The phaser was invented by Apple?
It was even more convoluted than that. The humanoid species evolved separately on different planets, but some kind of magic DNA made sure that the end results for all the separate cases would be genetically and physiologically similar. Since evolution doesn’t work like that … essentially there was a god-like “creator species.”
Or, put differently: In the TrekVerse, Intelligent Design is the correct explanation for the origin of species, and, assuming he is not considered a crackpot, Charles Darwin’s work reads very differenlty.
No…in one episode of TOS (the one where the plants on some planet blew confetti on you and made you all happy) Kirk was alone on the Enterprise and said he could not pilot the ship alone.
I think one person could conceivably fly the Enterprise-D or Voyager solo, so long as the propulsion systems were in perfect working order and the trip were straight to a starbase or other known, not-enormously-distant destination. But I agree it could definitely not have been done with the Enterprise-no-suffix under ordinary circumstances; Scott had to install fairly extensive automation in ST:III to make it possible for just four men to handle her, and they essentially lost the battle with the small Klingon ship (whom ordinarily they would have kicked the crap out of in moments) because of it.
Did Scotty do anything for Kirk to fly Constellation in The Doomsday Machine?
Dr. Crusher was eventually the only one on board the warp bubble Enterprise-D and seemed to do OK until the walls started collapsing.