This is how I’ve always envisioned the transporter, and it has the advantage of avoiding the “transporter kills people” paradox.
Re. beaming warm clothes to Sulu: they should have said (or shown) that the malfunctioning transporter was now producing randomly split-into-pieces objects.
Riker gets it on with a hermaphrodite in a later episode, but “she” gets better.
It was that jealous “bull” partner who ruined everything.
This is true; however, the idea of shuttlecraft was played with in early drafts of the first pilot. They even came up with a docking system for them.
So in your universe, it’s demeaning just for women to have to serve coffee? 
You must not eat at Denny’s much. 
I think at the time it seemed like “tape” was on it’s way to being a generic term - you had reel to reel tapes, 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, and paper tape all as a form of ‘tape’. Things obviously didn’t pan out that way, but I don’t think it was an unreasonable guess in the TOS timeframe.
It’s almost always the case that if someone is coming up with three historical events, one will be in the 20th century, one will be an older reference familiar to 20th century Americans, and one will be future history for the viewer. This happens in a lot of other science fiction, once you see the pattern it’s hard to miss.
It’s also interesting sometimes when they miss an obvious 20th or 21st century reference that happened after the real filming but before the show is set. The most glaring example I can think of is a bit in Babylon 5 where they’re talking about famous terrorist attacks, follow the ‘one old, one modern’, one future’ rule, but 9/11 would have made much more sense as an example (if it hand’t happened half a decade after the show finished).
We don’t know what “duotronic” technology was like, so we can’t say whether or not tapes were obsolescent. For all we know, they could have been the cornerstone of the entire system (though they had obviously been superceded by Picard’s time).
I’m watching TNG right now, the one with the reptile and mammal diplomats. It’s quite amusing to see Troi sitting at her “post” on the bridge, tapping her knee and looking bored. If a more pointless character was ever conceived, I’m at a loss to name them (though Wesley comes close).
One might also have noticed that the shuttlecraft hangar doors were visible at the stern of the *Enterprise *from Day One of the series. 
When runabouts were introduced in DS9, someone asked me what was the difference between them and a shuttle. I replied “a runabout is big enough to have a toilet”. 
[Klingon spoiling for a fight] No, I meant that the Enterprise should be hauled away as garbage. [/Ksfaf]
If I had gotten a vote it would have been for the mirror universe Uhura uniform.
I was going to suggest that, but I was afraid that people would laugh at me.
And please, let’s just forget the “Starfleet isn’t the military” argument. It’s patently clear that it is, despite Roddenberry’s claims to the contrary.
Daystrom. Dr Richard Daystrom. Sheesh! :smack:
By far, the dumbest logistics point was that the *Enterprise *never, **ever **carried any extra dilithium crystals. Something that vital to the ship, there should have been holds full of spare crystals, just waiting to be used in an emergency.
What happened to them? Did Scotty eat them for lunch?
Someone replaced the dilithium crystals with Folgers Crystals, and nobody noticed.
That wouldn’t work either. Just beam down a ton of them. Sulu and the others could pile them up and burrow into the pile until they were cozy and warm.
No, they just carried the Idiot Ball to the goal line with that episode.
They should have replaced them with Maxwell House. They would be good to the last drop (out of warp).
Here’s my list of annoyances from TOS: