I took it as the equivalent of Dad at the breakfast table, saying, “Car has a dent that wasn’t there yesterday,” without looking up from his newspaper or making eye contact with the teenage son. 
The phaser blast didn’t cause the transporter damage.
The transporter was damaged when the first crewman beamed aboard and when the aggressive Kirk blew a hole in the conduit it gave Scotty a good look at what the problem was.
This is getting out of hand! :eek:
Yes, the yellow powder clinging to the first crewman caused the initial malfunction, making the transporter produce “opposites.”
The blasted transporter circuits was a far more serious problem; IIRC, Scotty said at that point they “couldn’t beam up a fly.” It required some ingenious jury-rigging to restore the transporter before they could experiment on reintegrating the dog-creature (and ultimately the two Kirks).
Are you suggesting those little butterfly displays on each communicator were actually video screens, and we just never got to see K&S sexting each other? :dubious:
Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!!! I just got this joke! :eek: :smack:
Next question: Why did it take NOMAD’s energy bolts (traveling at approximately warp 15) so long to hit the Enterprise, while the ship’s torpedoes got to NOMAD in just under three seconds? :dubious:
Relativistic time dilation.
And multiple phase-shift inversions.
Are you suggesting they shunted all auxiliary power to the deflector array? :dubious:
It appears the Enterprise may not be done having regular weekly breakdowns as it tries to navigate its way through plot holes bigger than the Horsehead Nebula.
A Federation where everyone is unbearably smug and complacent gets its ass kicked by some hitherto obscure minor power on the fringes of the known Galaxy, like from a sector of space the average Joe (excuse me, person) has never even heard of before and can’t find on a map? It would be interesting to see how that played out!
I personally would like to see a prequel set in the Captain April and Pike days, as per the original series outline. And this time, make it look like the successor to Forbidden Planet, fer chrissakes! :mad:
From the link:
What? Admit to the world, the Federation and to infinity and beyond that Starfleet is gasp a creature of the military, not of peaceful, scientific explorers?
Well, I for one am shocked and appalled.
Fecal teleporters. You don’t even have to leave the bridge!
The Enterprise’s biggest problem was management. The ship’s physician, the only one, spent all of his time on the bridge instead of in sick bay treating patients, prescribing meds, and reviewing patient’s charts.
Except that’s not true. McCoy had at least one assistant surgeon, Dr. M’Benga; Crusher also had another physician in staff, Dr. Selar, and there were always sickbay staff in the background in her day. It’s just that the chief medical officer bogards all the away missions.
I doubt a ship’s complement of 400 or so needs more than two full- time doctors anyway. But during crisis situations, there’s probably members of the Science staff who are cross-trained to work as paramedics.
If not actors.
Tom Paris got cross training as a medic on Voyager.
Most Starship malfunctions were the result of battle. Which mirrors the real world. Two battleships firing at each other results in a lot of damage. Starships have shields but they aren’t 100% effective.
Voyager had new technology. The Bio-neural gel packs were susceptible to bacteria and viruses. They also had a lot of holodeck failures. Blame B’Elanna Torres the rookie engineer. . She was a Starfleet academy drop out. Never worked on a ship as complex as Voyager.
TNG took a helmsman, Geordi and presto! Made him chief engineer. Good luck with that in the real world.
btw, why didn’t TNG have a Chief Engineer season 1? There was this one guy that only had a few scenes the entire season. Can’t even remember his name.
Quite surprising since Scotty was such a popular TOS character. You’d expect casting a chief engineer for TNG would be a priority. Levar Burton was a well known actor from Roots and other work. But he was cast in a tiny role season one. He got much less attention than any of the cast as helmsman. Then its like they realized they were wasting a very good actor and bumped him up to chief engineer.
You REALLY don’t want to know what happens when the “fiber compensators” aren’t perfectly aligned.
it happened to the Seaview too.
those Jefferies tubes are a problem right from the start.