Building a fleet of starships when there’s a dearth of dilithium crystals would have been like the Royal Navy converting to steam before coal was readily available.
There’s a third meaning. Troi was actually the ship’s lawyer!
Here’s another theory: counselor was just a euphemism. Troi was there to be the “Captain’s woman”. Her counselor’s title was just made up for administrative purposes. (Starfleet adopted the practice of assigning a woman to its captains after reviewing the records of the earlier Enterprise and realizing how often missions had been endangered by Kirk’s propensity to go chasing after women he had just met.)
But Picard was such a prude he didn’t realize what Troi’s real role so he treated her like a real adviser. Troi was like a prostitute in a massage parlor who was asked to give a real massage; she had no skills in her supposed job so she just offered vague and obvious observations.
I recall Enterprise being bombarded by some hellacious weapon and Troi saying, “I sense great anger, Captain.”
My fanwank is that the Constitution-class heavy cruisers were magnificent ships for their era but at the cost of being “dilithium pigs”, using enough for two or three lesser vessels. Considering that Starfleet could only afford twelve of them, maybe having them carry dilithium reserves on top of that was simply unsupportable. Though as I mentioned earlier, the discovery of a system where dilithium gems were so common that they were considered as cheap as polished quartz may have changed all that.
Well, in order to solve that, each writer would have to know in advance what every other writer was putting in, then study all past episodes carefully.
That’s why you need a showrunner, to oversee stuff like this. There is a place for purely episodic adventure fiction, though.
By the time of VOY (possibly earlier), there were continuity assistants. Cite: my friend was one.
Then, with ENT season 4, Manny Coto actually tried to fix some Trek universe continuity “errors.” Cite: watch season 4 of ENT
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“Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”. Current computers can already remember how you like your tea and which kind. Picard should just say “Tea”.
Was that when the show started to show the proto-Federation coalescing, i.e. humans and Vulcan and Andorians and some other species starting to form military alliances? To me, that’s when the show started to get interesting (but also when I had less time to watch it) because they were finally doing away with the pointless and interminable season arcs like the Xindi and the time-bandits or whatever the hell those first-season guys were.
As I vaguely recall, one of the problems with doing this is that if the show referenced a species from TOS, they’d have to pay royalties to the person who wrote that TOS episode, or something.
I wish he hadn’t done those bits of fan-fic. Enterprise was just beginning to become good, and those episodes got it canceled.
That was the reason why T’Pol was created; originally her character was supposed to be a younger version of T’Pau, but the producers didn’t want to pay royalties to the writer of Amok Time for a main character expected to in almost every episode.
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Well, each episode usually concluded with conflict resolution, so one way or the other Picard got his happy ending.
Not all of them. I’ve got some work software that, if it were a replicator, wouldn’t recognize “tea” after you used it once. It would make you go all the way back to “FOOD” and tree down from there. Even if you just asked for a cup 5 seconds ago.
If often complained that the software engineers that wrote that code did not graduate in the top half of their class. Maybe the Enterprise coders come from the same school.
Heh, I Just asked my Echo: “Alexa: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.”
Her response was: “I’m not a replicator.”
You want to know how bad that can get. In L&O Criminal Intent, there is a Season 8 episode “All In” that’s a direct sequel to Season 5’s “Cruise to Nowhere”, but they changed the character’s names and used different actors. I could never find out why exactly. It’s very confusing to watch the second if you don’t know to “adjust” the characters in your head to be the same ones. Otherwise you spend half the episode trying to figure out why it’s almost like the other one, but it isn’t.
ENT put in a bunch of stuff that didn’t match up with the earlier series (that were set later.) You’d think Picard or Sisko would have mentioned that Earth didn’t have a Florida anymore.
I thought that was implied every time they said the future was better. 
I don’t care what the damn creators say…episode one of ENT created a brand new time stream. First Contact with the Klingons is not nearly as catastrophic as Picard makes it sound.
Not to mention Picard makes it sound like Earth could have handled FC with the Klingons differently when the fact is it was thrust upon them by the time travel schenanigans featured all through the first two seasons and finally…its heavily implied that ENT-X is destroyed early into its career and only saved by Future Guy/Future Archer.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Admiral Tucker had the peninsula replicated in 2181.