Well, there was time travel involved, of course, an extremely longed-lived and powerful alien species with a sick sense of humor that likes to do unwanted sex change operations, and naturally a holodeck malfunction.
We do not speak of it with outsiders…
In the episode I saw today, Worf admonishes Troi’s mother not to touch anything on the bridge. Then he leans forward and puts his hands all over the tactical station.
“Dammit, Lwaxana, now look at what you made me do! An entire spread of photon torpedoes just took out the Federation colony on that moon!” :dubious: :mad:
“Does that make you hot?” 
Although this would explain why the appearance of Star Ships is generally treated as disconcerting at best by minor planet rulers. The ones happy to see them tend to be the ones offering them on-shore pleasure, which keeps them safer. Even Earth seems to be a bit apprehensive about ships returning home.
Damn. Intelligent flying star ships half-secret ruling the galaxy and quietly enabling random genocide to instill fear of human error. Ingenious.
Lol, I like TNG and never thought that the Enterprise was a bad ship. It certainly has a reputation of being one of the best ships in Starfleet. There are episodes in the repertoire where the Enterprise is laughably superior to another race’s ship. (Forgive me if I don’t feel like searching for the names atm.)
In the movie Generations, the Enterprise kills the Duras sisters in one of the better battles IMO. “That is a Galaxy class starship, we are no match for them!”
It’s true there are a lot of holodeck-gone-awry episodes, but to be fair it’s not typically the holodecks fault per se, it’s more of an external influence. There are some others that aren’t, though, like when the holodeck creates an AI to rival Data. I would argue that the holodeck episodes are “for funsies” and should not be taken as the core of the show.
You seem to be going way out of canon here.
Slaver tech is seen in TAA
As are Kzinti.
I would still like you to explain to me what is going on with those (completely unsecured) huge heavy blue barrels and other containers in the cargo hold. They are not even held down with a wad of chewing gum. Here was have a starship that regularly rocks and sways like a carnival ride, and nobody has thought of tying those bloody barrels down. On one occasion, they fell on Worf and crippled him.
I agree. I am not the first to point out the need for seat belts on the Bridge seats, and if I was in charge of that ship, they’d have some motherin’ cargo netting holding those barrels in place… none of this “emergency force field” crap. And don’t get me started on the idea of a civilization that has perfected matter transporters and tractor beams, but apparently is baffled at the idea of installing fuses on high-energy conduits that pass near or into the duty stations…
But it’s sure fun to watch.
The thing that always gets me is that the Enterprise-D is continually referred to as a flagship. Where is the Flag Officer, then?
And why does Picard still have a job after his ship is commandeered and run around in Generations?
Ever see a TOS ep called Court Martial? Since then, the crew (such as are involved) have gotten much better at that. And Jean-Luc buys them all nice things. When you are hundreds or thousands of ly from San Francisco, you have the time to make sure Star Fleet sees what you want them to see.
No one seems to have been badly hurt by that except some fish. But he still has his job even after he wipes out most of the fleet in Best of Both Worlds. One thing I liked about the DS9 pilot was that it showed that not everyone was all that thrilled with Picard after that.
As for seat belts - the Enterprise had them in ST-TMP, IIRC. Enough said.
Flagship seems to just mean “premiere ship,” with Picard apparently being the highest captain.
This is also why Riker doesn’t want to leave.
Riker is a slug without ambition.
(I think I’ve ranted about this before, sorry.)
Seriously, one of a captain’s jobs – besides running the ship and doing whatever missions he is assigned – is training up officers. There need to be replacements for when others retire or die or they expand the fleet. Look at that battle at Wolf Whatever it was: dozens of ships lost, hundreds of officers gone. They can build more ships, but where are the officers to run them going to come from?
It’s supposed to be sort of like a conveyor belt. Young ensigns fresh from the academy arrive and fill the bottom rungs. Gradually they gain experience and knowledge and talents while being promoted to jobs that require these higher skills. Up and up, until they reach the limit of their potential – or retire or die or whatever.
But the system is broken on the Enterprise.
Riker is sitting there at the next to top level like a big fat cork. He’s turned down several chances at captaincy because he’s all happy and contented. But it also makes it harder for talented officers below him to advance properly. How can a Second Officer prove he has the abilities to serve as First Officer? And if he is stuck, that means nobody else gets a crack at becoming Second, and so forth.
Really, he should be booted sideways. Send to some deadend job, maybe at a Space Station or whatever.
Actually, it reflects poorly on Picard that he didn’t handle this problem of people stagnating in their careers.
Hey, Worf made Captain! Or at the very least, he wound up in command of Starfleet’s first actual warship. No kids and families on the DEFIANT, goddammit!
And the Defiant’s hold was full of prune juice, the drink of warriors.
They took shit from no one.
Back in the early 90’s I worked for a company that decided to sell some stuff at Star trek Cons. So since I had written the software for them, I requested some tickets to the upcoming Con in Minneapolis. Guests were Nichelle Nichols (Uhuru) and Michael Dorn (Worf).
The very first thing Michael Dorn did upon taking the stage was to make it absolutely clear that he HATED Prune juice and would absolutely not accept any from people in the audience under any circumstances.
So what did the very first person in line for question/answer do? Try to give him a bottle of it. He got a bit upset, but mostly held his tongue. Unfortunately, the person wasn’t taking no for an answer and kept trying to give it to him. She even left if on the stage for him, at which point he had someone come and take it away (he wasn’t about to touch it) and admonished people AGAIN that he hated the stuff and wasn’t going to accept it. Told them to just throw it away right now, because he was dead serious about this.
About a half dozen bottles of the stuff were thrown away by unhappy idiots.
Heh.
I always thought “Ah! The drink of a warrior!” was the lamest of TNG’s lame jokes.
I hated that. It made Sisko look even stupider.
We go from sensitive guy who lost his wife and freaked out (cool.) to loving father (excellent) to derp, let me help you move that debris major Kira to weird actor choices (WeeeeOOOOOO) to I wanna quit, by the way I WAS AT WOLF 359 (glare)
Picard :“What the fuck is your problem?”
edit: Besides, that cube would have breezed through (excepting the Enterprises neat deflector trick) the fleet anyway…they barely stopped the one in First Contact and that was with years of study.