The only time it seemed to make sense was when they encountered the Borg in Best of Both Worlds. Not having the Borg network to make the bits taken out of Picard work, I guess they were pretty useless.
Unless someone wants to go back and write a story based around the Voyager Borg and have some nanites dormant in Picard pop up and cause trouble.
I always wanted to know what happened to the Dyson sphere itself. Although I vaguely recall seeing a ST book on the topic.
Not that I would read ST books. hides John M Ford books
The answer to any dangling plot-thread related to the holodeck is always the same: the holodeck safeties went offline, and it went berserk, killing several crewmembers you’ve never seen before but who were very, very important to people whom you have seen before (but nevertheless, not so much that they’d ever fix the damn holodeck safeties).
Given it’s Reg, and knowing his predilections, he’s lucky that thing didn’t go berserk on him next time he tried to pitch woo on the holodeck.
Enterprise was a federation star ship. It was engineered and built according to specifications. Geordi can’t tinker with it. There was one episode in Season 3 (Booby Trap) where he modifies the warp coil. Then in season 4 (Galaxy’s Child) Dr. Leah Brahms beams aboard upset about the modifications (she was the original designer).
That’s one reason I liked Voyager. Janeway jury rigged all kinds of alien crap onto her star ship. The federation was a hundred light years away and couldn’t complain.
I don’t know if Starfleet ever did, but Nog once discovered the resemblance. (In “Little Green Men”, I think.)
While we’re speaking of Star Trek novels, which I also don’t read hides copy of Imzadi II: Elecrtric Boogaloothese are some of my favourite titles. Who can forget the classics Worf Vs The Pretty Flowers or Collectable Plate.
Speaking of using technology - they really drop the ball with this one several times. The one that stuck with me was the episode mentioned already when Barclay became “altered” and ended up transporting the ship to the centre of the galaxy to meet with an advanced race. One of the things he did in the episode was strenghten the ship’s shields by 300% by channeling warp power through it. From what we saw it didn’t require any drastic change the the ship or anything being added to it, just a recalibration of what was there.
Why the hell didn’t this become a standard practice in the Federation??? You’re telling me that Starfleet isn’t interested in having its ships’ shields being four times stronger when they’re not at warp (i.e. when in battle)?
They went to their home world. It’s full of trees and drizzly rain, the temperature is mild. They sit out in the drizzle, (no umbrella), smoking their hallucinogenic plant matter and drinking their fermented grain beverages and dark rich caffeinated bean drinks in peace.
The one that bugged me the most in this regard was the TNG episode where there’s a transporter malfunction, and several crew members reappear as childhood versions of themselves. They’re the same mentally; they just find themselves in younger bodies. Eventually, the problem is fixed, of course. But no one ever seems to notice that they’ve just discovered the secret to immortality.