First off, this is entertainment. It’s not meant to be logically sound. That would take more effort.
Now, my beef: Computers. Right, the computers aren’t networked to each other. There is no security. When needed, one can simply erase files (like, photon torpedo records) and cover up your tracks. It’s not like a guy named Peter Norton didn’t exist. Or that someone in the future hasn’t thought of simply inventing an “undelete” utility.
Or why is it that even Joe Bob Schmoe, fresh out of the Academy and a secret mole for Godknowswho, has the access necessary to seriously mess up the computer? I mean, it’s possible to, hop abord your favorite starship, hack in, give yourself command access, order the crew to the saucer section, dump them with the warp drive and subspace communications locked out, and take off in what’s left for a cosmic joyride!
You missed the point of this show: this group of aliens had no culture of its own and were great mimics, so when the group got a gangster novel(somehow and managed to read it somehow), they completely re-did their culture to mimic the novel. Thus the last scene where Bones realized he had left his tricorder(?) on the planet and Jim said that soon they’d be coming “for a piece of our action”. Still stupid, but not parallel evolution. For that we have the show (Bread and Circuses, IIRC) where you had a Roman culture with 20th century technology, because of parallel evolution but somehow the Roman Empire hadn’t fallen or changed in nearly 2000 years.
But for real stupidity in a plot line, how about “Brain and brain - What is brain?”
Not really a fair criticism. Computers in the mid-60s usually weren’t networked, and the things you mention are all based on PCs, which came into existance much later than ST.
A Piece of the Action
This was pure entertainment. It did have some logical justification (and made more sense than the show with the Congs and Yangs), but was primarily for fun. 60s TV drama shows usually had one or two pure comedy episodes a year.
Most persistent error
As for further scientific errors, ST is the first to show the parallax of stars wrong – but the effect has been used in just about every SF film and TV series (and Windows screensavers) since. (When traveling in space, the stars don’t appear to move at different rates; the distances are too great to show any appreciable parallax.)
APB, the reason they have the sounds of explosions is so that it is not boring to the viewer. No one would go watch one of these things if every space battle was in complete science.
APB, Monster, you’re BOTH wrong. Don’t you know anything? In Star Wars, the Jedi reinvented sound with a GUT (Grand Unification Theory). They found out that they could get a theory to take into acount everything, so they made everything to take into account the theory. After 20,000 years of searching for the answer, the realized that was the easiest way.
Now in Star Trek… they don’t have Jedi to do this for them, so it’s Gene Roddenberry who’s the screwup
It was “Plato’s Stepchildren”. Episode best known for TV’s first interracial kiss (I think), between Kirk and Uhura.
One of the female co-stars in the episode was Barbara Babcock.
This was not the episode featuring Apollo. “Who Mourns for Adonis” (I think that’s what it was called)? And in that episode, the female love interest in question was not Janice Rand, played by Grace Lee Whitney, but Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas (sp?), played by Leslie Parrish.
I’m not a geek! I just watched it for the women! Really!
I did mention the photon torpedo records being messed with, from ST6: The undiscovered Country. They did have them back a few years ago, unless in 200+ years, they still haven’t done it.
