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Worst Star Trek Physics Errors/Plot Holes
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May 31, 2023
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That's a lovely post, unfortunately when I watched startrek it was only to see what aliens looked like
Humans tend to build plotlines for their films that are highly unlogical yet tend to cater to their emotions and lust for adventure instead. This desire is soo strong that they even overlook what is commonly refered to as "Plotholes" in order to fullfill it
Quite fascinating in my opinion.
Faszinating indeed 🖖
1) I watched the Episode Yesterday. Yes normaly the spaccraft would be able to fly Off despite the Monkeys Holding IT. However its Energy Level was Low/ gone ( remember they had to use the Energy from their faisers to start) so they Had a Lot less Energy than usuall and thus ( my explanation) couldnt draft away from the Monkeys Holding Like usual.
Aug 23, 2023
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It's "phasers" but even so, any spacecraft engine would still be more powerful.
Says U. ( I never SAW the weapons Name writen down). I Figure that trying to escape from the Grip of the creature would Cost to much Energy and they need all the Energy to stay in Orbit Long enough for the Enterprise to find them ( Energy was Low as IT IS)
Hiram : your Reaktion is very human and thus highly illogical
What do you think the worst star trek episode errors were, whether in terms of the physics, direct contradictions with other episodes, and/or the overall plot/idiotic decisions made? Here are my top few:
1. The original series episode "The Galileo 7", at one point Spock claims that the shuttlecraft couldn't take off because the big apes on the planet were "holding them down", implying that the apes were stronger than the ship's engines, that's insanely stupid, even for sci-fi standards.
2. The Next Generation Episode "The Naked Now", toward the end one of the crew members saves the ship from a massive stellar fragment headed toward them (that was ejected during the star's collapse) by pushing a smaller evacuated ship with a tractor beam into the fragment, giving them a little boost away while slightly slowing down the stellar fragment giving them a few more seconds to get the engines fixed. I'm no physics expert but are you going to tell me that a stellar core fragment that weighs how many trillions of trillions of tons, being ejected at relativistic speeds, is going to be slowed down at all by smashing a tiny ship into it? I mean, give me a break.
3. The Next Generation Episode: "Night Terrors", the plot is good, but at the end they claim that "not even photon torpedos would be enough for an explosion massive enough to dislocated the spatial distortion" or whatever, but yet an explosion with hydrogen is. How could any chemicals explosion be more powerful than anti-matter weapons??
4. The Original Series Episode "The enemy within", why didn't anyone think of sending a shuttlecraft down? Spock, the science guy of "consider all alternatives" didn't think of that? No one did! Also, no one would be able to survive negative 100 degree temperatures for that many hours regardless of what blankets/heated rocks you had, they'd be dead in 6 minutes.
5. The voyager episodes of "memorial", "nothing human", "threshold", "basics part 2", and "30 days" were so stupid I won't even bother dissecting these plots, but I will mention a funny thing about "basics part 2". Essentially, an alien species and invaded and took over the ship, and the ships computer let the alien species lock out the command codes cause they told it to do so! Like, it's harder to log into Gmail from a different device than it is to commandeer a 24th century star ship. But the funniest part is when the doctor asks the computer "where is he, who is it" after finding out 1 crewman is still on board, and the computer, which supposedly has advanced AI and bineural circuitry, replies "please restate a single question LMAO". The 24th century, bio-neural circuitry, STAR SHIP computer couldn't keep track of 2 questions at once, I mean that's so laughable. The other really funny scene is when Tom Paris is able to retake the ship because apparently there is a "blindspot" underneath the ship that sensors couldn't detect! Right, a 24th century, interstellar STAR SHIP that can scan light years away, has a BLINDSPOT..
For context, I have seen every Original, Next Generation, and Voyager episode, as well as about half of "Enterprise" and about a dozen episodes of DS9.