Dag. Can a moderater fix my coding?
I thought I knew TOS pretty well, but I can’t remember anything large that I wouldn’t call ‘a rifle’. Could you elaborate?
TOS had a couple of mortars, and… um… styrofoam rocks.
There was a fairly good-sized field laser set-up used in “The Cage.”
Thanks. I was sure you were right, but I couldn’t recall anything.
Wesley Crusher
Neelix
Good choices, good choices.
How about the episodes where most of the episode is a flashback to a place and time that had nothing to do with Star Trek? IIRC, there was one from DS9 and one from Voyager.
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Voyager
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Time Travel
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Voyager
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DS9 season 3 onward
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Do the movies count? 'Cuz there was a series of them…
Amen. Good actors, terrible roles. Wil Wheaton blew me away in Stand By Me (great story) with great acting, but he got saddled with this career ending role. Danny Partridge as a spaceman.
Hmmm, there was a similar episode in TNG (“The Inner Light”, episode name courtesy of a Google search) in which Picard, courtesy of a strange space probe, lives an entire life on another planet - married, raises kids, etc. Turns out that the probe was sent by the people of a dying planet so that their culture wouldn’t be forever erased and forgotten. It’s actually my favorite episode.
Oh, sorry, things we don’t like - the new Enterprise song is complete unfitting… there, that’s one.
The utter lack of continuity between episodes and series. My God, I can keep track of multiple plots and I could have done a much better job of making sure that the facts were kept straight concerning:
The overall timeline. Why keep changing it?
Warp drive and the speeds necessary to cross the galaxy. We know how big the galaxy is, couldn’t someone draw a map and make the warp factors make sense?
Wesley Crusher driving all the time. Weren’t there other (real) officers deserving of the job at the time?
Magical last-minute fixes that never appear again, even if they could be used in the current situation.
The lump-of-putty-on-the-head-makes-an-alien approach. Why didn’t they use aliens already introduced?
The all-aliens-on-one-planet-are-the-same assumption. Not always, but often enough to be annoying.
No real sense of place, other than “out there.” Some of the locations come from our current maps, but again no one is keeping track of what’s used and how it relates to Earth. TOS started this.
My biggest problem: The writers and producers are writing for TV, so they apply TV logic that destroys the believability factor of the series. I want to be taken away to those exotic locations; I want to suspend disbelief- just like watching ER, where you know there isn’t a DR. Green et al… but you still react as if they are real. This stuff just annoys me.
What I disliked most about TREK?
At least they addressed this in the first episode of “Enterprise”…
Where the hell are the goddamned seatbelts?
Buck The Diver <—thinks the bridge needs airbags
I don’t think this deserves another post necessarily, but I do have a Star Trek question that seems to relate to this.
When did Berman and Braga take over? I know they’re the guys behind Voyager and Enterprise, but I never really kept up with the behind-the-scenes folks of Star Trek.
What else did they do that messed stuff up in the dopers’ opinion besides making the Borg less menacing?
I most disliked the fact, that all of these characters had to wear clothing!!! 
Seven of Nine (need I say more? roowwwwwr!)
Counselor Deanna Troi
Dr. Beverly Crusher
Tasha Yar
Kirsan Dax
and what the hell, throw Cap’n Janeway in the list too!
Tom Paris.
The number of times modifying the TriCorder saved the day - what was a TriCorder for if it had to be modified to be useful?
The fans (whoops!)
Actually, I thought Voyager sucked the big one-- everything about it. Dark Space, nanoprobes, technobabble, “episodicness”, Janeway, the reduction of the Borg, etc…
the “Enterprise” theme.
Time travel wackiness (it’s so rarely done right).
Kurzan seems SOOO out of place on that list. Especially since the only time we met him, he was in Odo.
(Are you sure you didn’t mean Jadzia or Ezri? ::Sigh:: You probably mean Jadzia, but there’s no accounting for taste. ::Drifts:: Ah, Ezri.)
There are times when magical fixes are recalled in later episodes – for example, “Night Terrors” explicitly borrows the deflector-dish modifications from “BOBW”, though it doesn’t work. Picard also refers in “Family” to the tectonic stabilizing they did in “Pen Pals”. Unfortunately, this leads to another kind of mistake: the “Pat ourselves on the back for our clever continuity” syndrome, which leaves everyone oblivious to the more common errors that crop up in every other episode. Stop congratulating yourselves, guys!
[Another example of “outsmarting yourselves with continuity” is in Voyager’s “Year of Hell”. This was foreshadowed in “Before and After”, except that Kes was definitely part of the Year of Hell scenario. Since the events later transpire in Kes’ abscence (and some distance away, thanks to her parting “gift”), it makes no sense. But Ken Biller wanted to capitalize on his previous set-up, Kes or no Kes.]
Are you refering to Kes’ presence in Year Of Hell when she was supposed to be at Macy’s or something?
That is what Janeway called “That time travel s__t”.
Well, she didn’t but she will. Actually she said it gave her a headache, which is why we shouldn’t have female Starship Captains…mysteries gave Captain Kirk a bellyache instead, which says something about testosterone in general and…was I saying something?