The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the people using it. Remember, the Stormtroopers were all cloned from the same DNA as a guy whose most notable achievement is jet-packing himself into a thousand-year digestive system.
Silly, everything in superhero comic books can be explained by appeal to other dimensions. All physical objects extend slightly into the dimension whence she gets the energy to form her forcefields, and that’s also where she subconsciously shunts off the light that would otherwise reflect off of her. The difference is that, unlike ordinary humans, Sue’s vision also extends into this other dimension.
There are a ton of crises in the Universe, far more than there are Starfleet ships. So at any given crisis, there’s likely to be only one Federation ship in the vicinity, if any. All the other ships are just as busy; we just don’t have chronicles of them.
In the third X-Men movie, when Wolverine was advancing on out-of-control disintegrate-crazy Phoenix/Jean, his skeleton is staying intact because it’s adamantium, and his healing factor was continually replenishing his flesh as it got disintegrated. But why did his pants survive?
That wasn’t his pants. In fact, he goes pantless. His legs & crotch are just really, really, really hairy. (It’s a slight glandular problem caused by his healing factor).
DR. Reed Richards uses the code-name MR. Fantastic. Given that he holds numerous Ph.Ds and doctoral degrees, why would he not use his rightfully earned title as part of his codename?
In fact, why do any of the members of the FF use superheroic codenames given that their identities are well-known to the general public?
As weapons officer, you know he meant photon torpedoes even though he accidentally said “phasers”. You know your job better than the captain does, right? So you fire photon torpedoes as per standard doctrine, and when Kirk notices you fired photon torpedoes he doesn’t even remember what he actually said.
In “Batman Returns” why doesn’t anyone from Wayne Enterprises notice that Batman is driving one of their prototype armored vehicles?
Everyone who had anything to do with the prototype had either quit, been fired, or was still bound by a Military Secrets Act. Or maybe they just didn’t watch TV much.
How come Angel is unable to revive Buffy with mouth-to-mouth in Prophecy Girl (“I have no breath.”) but Spike can smoke in later episodes?
He’s not taking smoke into his lungs, he’s simulating smoking and just taking smoke into his mouth, like sucking water into your mouth with a straw but not actually swallowing.
In other words, like Clinton, he doesn’t inhale.
In Star Wars, how can people fly between systems in single seat fighters? Don’t you have to stretch, or use the bathroom? How long do you have to sit in an X-wing to travel from Hoth to Degoba and from Degoba to Bespin? Can you really fly multiple light years in a couple of hours?
I add that, in the case of Richards, Richards, Storm, and Grimm, the codenames are actually just nicknames given them by the media, because the foursome where reviving the long-dormant super-hero standard of Marvel Earth and the papers thought they should have code names like the legendary Captain America. Within the group, they almost always address one another by their given names–and, in fact, hardly anyone ever refers to Reed or Sue by their super-heroic names, anyway.
In the first place J’onn has used many aliases, of which the police detective is but one. In the second place I suspect he’s reused the JJ name, as it makes him feel less desolate (since it happens to sound very like his real name). But he hasn’t been using the current iteration of JJ since the 50s.
Why on EARTH did TOS-era Starfleet regulations allow both the captain and the first officer to be on dangerous away missions, at the SAME TIME?
Flag officers are the most experienced in the field and in command situations, and at the time, the most qualified to deal with the variety of issues which would need to be dealt with in the field. They didn’t have diplomats or counselors, and security officers were no damn good in a fight, as well as not having much in the way of diplomatic skills, so who else would they send?
So how does Superman hide his identity just by putting on a pair of glasses?
The powers the objects had were all side effects of the rip in the time-space continuum that created the Lost Room. The same breakdown in the laws of space and time that created the Lost Room also broke down with respect to the various objects in the room, hence their “powers” which aren’t really powers but are side effects of their dislocation in space/time. If they were properly oriented with regard to space/time, they’d have no powers.
What experiences did Princess Leia undergo between being captured by Jabba and being rescued by Luke? They kinda skipped that part in the movie, for whatever reason.
A flag officer is someone with a flag. That is a cloth thingy with one through four stars. In other words an admiral or general. A captain is not a flag officer. That’s why the use of the word flagship in ST annoys me so much. They used military terms but the writers are a bunch of nerds with no military experience and apparently no military knowledge. A flagship is a ship carrying the admiral’s flag. The only criteria is that an admiral has to be on it. It can be a carrier or a tugboat. There were numerous instances in WWII were the flag was transfered to a smaller ship (usually a destroyer) due to damage to the original flagship. The Enterprise is not the flagship just because it’s the bestest ship in the universe.
Maybe he does have some form of mind control, considering the kiss. Maybe he’s like Death in the Terry pratchett series - the mind itself filters it out and lets you not see it.
How come they keep trying to give Riker a personality? Give it up already!
Don’t go hatin’ on Will Riker! :mad: Although I will say that they gave him a wife and a ship, Titan (disambiguation) | Memory Alpha | Fandom, so maybe they did give up on trying to impart a personality.
If the Reavers (Firefly, Serenity) are such crazy-ass, homicidal, self-mutilating rape manaics, how can they maintain and operate starships?
Well, maybe. But how can the Reavers calm down enough to use delicate tools, deal with dangerous materials, and productively work together? I just don’t get it.
Dumbwaiters. In Charlie X, Kirk gets a call from the kitchens where the cooks report that the stoves are all full of turkeys, and in The Trouble with Tribbles, Kirk’s lunch arrives having been eaten en route by tribbles.