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The most stupid moments in Star Trek

gong1fu1pandagong1fu1panda Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2012 in Ten Forward
I guess we all like or at least dont hate Star Trek. I dont want to go into the good parts since we all know them. Noooo....

What are the most stupid moments in Star Trek. Sort according to severity in descending order!

My list:
6. "Sacrifice of angels" possibly has more space battle than all movies combined. I was like ... OMG..... but then ---> Did the Dominion really try to set up a blockade with 1200 ships in the middle of nowhere?
5. Did Sisko really try to penetrate a tiny blockade in the middle of nowhere?
4. Did Dukat really praise Sisko for trying to brake his tiny blockade in the middle of nowhere? I guess he did not want to look too stupid in front of the founder-->"See, see it works!!"
3. Janeway and Paris turning to reptiles and humping each other.
2. Voyager as a whole.
1. "Where did you get Tholian silk?" ---> Thoooolian silk, get it, get it?
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  • thoroonthoroon Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    They once had a Tachyon Detection Grid in the middle of nowhere ... which actually had holes in it ...
    And didn't you know, the universe is hardly bigger than the Enterprise-D (only existing to support the Enterprise), only allows 45 degree moving up and down, and is full of unpenetrateable invisible ... walls/nets.

    My most stupid moment on Trek is a general "theme":
    They have tons of security measures in S1 TNG, and even for them, there are failure saves ... yet everytime they fail.
    (Fun fact: It makes for some of the funniest episodes in NG-Era too)
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  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    don't forgot it is a tv show and yes they should do more research on such things.

    For the episode of Sacrifice of Angels, maybe the reason they did not go around since space is HUGE because it probley was a waste of time, and maybe the dominion ships wound have moved in the area. Its all got to dao with tactics.
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    ->This<- was the most stupid moment in Star Trek (for me).
    The 37's
    Stardate: 48975.1
    Original Airdate: August 28 1995

    [Cargo bay]

    (The pick up has been brought on board.)
    TUVOK: Apparently it is a ground vehicle from mid-twentieth century Earth.
    PARIS: It's a 1936 Ford, actually.
    JANEWAY: Mister Paris?
    PARIS: That was the manufacturing date, 1936. Ford was the name of the company that build it. Antique vehicles are a hobby of mine.
    (He opens the bonnet, sorry, pops the hood, and whistles.)
    PARIS: Internal combustion engine, a reciprocating piston cylinder design, fuel source was a refined petroleum. Gasoline.
    KIM: So is this an early hover car?
    PARIS: No, you're about a century too early for that. This is about one step ahead of the horse drawn carriage.
    TORRES: Traces of potassium nitrate, ammonium and methane back here.
    JANEWAY: I think you'll find that's manure. Horse manure, if I'm not mistaken. Judging from the mud on the wheels, and the alfalfa seedlings stuck in the metal frame, I'd say this vehicle belonged to a farmer, or at least someone who lived in a rural area. But the question is, how did it get here? I doubt there are many twentieth century farmers driving around the Delta Quadrant.

    She is the Chief Engineer. She couldn't identify manure WITH a tricorder. I didn't find it funny, or quaint. Just plain stupid. Sort like if they had have inserted a gag of Tuvok slipping on a banana peel. >.>

    WTH Berman.

  • thoroonthoroon Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Haha ...

    Looks like swine TRIBBLE, tastes like swine TRIBBLE, scans like swine TRIBBLE ... Sir, we've found a new lifeform!
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    nynik wrote: »
    ->This<- was the most stupid moment in Star Trek (for me).



    She is the Chief Engineer. She couldn't identify manure WITH a tricorder. I didn't find it funny, or quaint. Just plain stupid. Sort like if they had have inserted a gag of Tuvok slipping on a banana peel. >.>

    WTH Berman.

    It was HILARIOUS! The idea was to show what people who don't know a lot about history would make of something that old.... Besides Torres is an engineer, not a farmer. :p
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    markhawkman wrote: »
    It was HILARIOUS! The idea was to show what people who don't know a lot about history would make of something that old.... Besides Torres is an engineer, not a farmer. :p

    True, but I felt it backfired terribly. I guess its related to how nobody in the future goes to the toilet - how can they be expected to identify TRIBBLE?
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    yeah, it was all kinda of corny. But I was able to beleive it simply due to the numbe rof people I've met in real life who can use digital equipment but don't understand how to use stone-age technology...
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  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Two things about from Star Trek that were annoying as sin...

    Deus Ex Machina.
    Example - DS9 A dominion fleet is on the way through the wormhole... *poof* all gone.

    "Reset Button" Episodes.
    Example - MANY episodes of Voyager. dont get me wrong i actually liked voyager somehow, but the constant 'oh no the ship is going to blow up... oh wait nevermind timeline sorted itself' storylines, drove me mad. Take Year of Hell, pretty interesting but then it was all just washed away.

    Oh and any episiode that revolved around Chakotay and his medicine bundle *cringe*
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Some of the "dafter" ones include

    Spocks brain (whole episode)
    the whole vidian concept (they are very very stupid they can make a whole klingon but not a whole vidian????)
    The DS9 episode in the lift
    Why can't ANYONE in Trek marry their own species??
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  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    "Why can't ANYONE in Trek marry their own species??"

    Keiko and Miles O'brien? :p
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  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    bajoran surrogation in pregnancy
    Miles possessed during wedding week

    and even then they are marrying cross culture (Japanese/Irish and ops/ Sci)

    it seems normal relationships
    (1 man 1 woman same species and background) are unheard of
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  • jkstocbrjkstocbr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Chakote find the Rubber People ...
  • skhcskhc Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Oh boy, I've got a few of these.

    "The Changing Face of Evil":
    The Breen come along with their God-mode weapon, use it to destroy an entire fleet, and whilst they're all floating around helplessy in escape pods the Female Changling decides to let them all live. Because it'll be demoralising. Dead officers are less use than demoralised ones, and it only takes one person to deliver the message that they're all screwed anyway. I appreciate the series heroes cannot die, so why put them in a situation that they can only escape from because the series baddie is an idiot?

    Any engagement between the Enterprise-D and Klingon Birds of Prey:
    "Rascals" - two surplus Birds of Prey (how often do you think the Klingons scrap non-obselescent warships? Never?) defeat the Enterprise because Riker fires one shot back at them. Even with ample time to warn them, I still think the Enterprise should've won that engagement, hands-down. You also never see more than about eight Ferengi who are able to subdue a huge ship with over a thousand people on it, without the aid of the main computer, by the way. Crew lockdown or not, that's a stretch.
    "Generations" - again, Riker only orders one shot fired, and then spends time looking for a way to disable them, instead of just unleashing the HUGE arsenal he has under his command at it. Would've been a lot quicker, imo.
    "Yesterday's Enterprise" - this one's less annoying, since there are three BoPs and they're presumably frontline. But the Enterprise still seems to spend a lot of time not shooting at them. And they destroy one with a torpedo spread and about three phaser blasts.

    When you compare those battles with the amount of ordinance the Enterprise fired at the Borg and the illusory Husnock ship, you have to wonder why the Enterprise couldn't just blow the BoPs out of the sky completely in a few seconds.

    "A Night in Sickbay"
    A dog pissing on a tree and Archer not getting any nookie is a suitable plot of a Star Trek episode now?

    "Threshold"
    I don't need to explain this, do I?

    "Star Trek V"
    There's a lot of stupid in this, but I think I'll settle for the plot hole that basically sets the whole movie off:

    Kirk: "Why send us, this ship isn't ready! Half of it isn't working! We don't have a full crew etc."
    Bob: "I need Jim Kirk out there."

    So send him on a functional starship. Or send him as a mission specialist with someone else. And do you know what? He does nothing to justify his supposed necessity to the mission. All he does is make a sneak attack which basically fails.
    elandarksky wrote: »
    "Reset Button" Episodes.
    Example - MANY episodes of Voyager. dont get me wrong i actually liked voyager somehow, but the constant 'oh no the ship is going to blow up... oh wait nevermind timeline sorted itself' storylines, drove me mad. Take Year of Hell, pretty interesting but then it was all just washed away.

    The problem with Voyager is that they put a relatively small ship out there by itself for 7 years and then kind of forgot to appropriately plot around that. I could believe a larger ship had enough resources and spares to patch all the holes in its hull, survive about six instances in the first season of being hit with a major energy drain, fire 93 torpedoes (when it's only supposed to have 40, including the ones used for the Tricobalts) and go through 15 shuttles, but not Voyager.
  • spacekulzarspacekulzar Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    The dreaded Treshold episode, obviously. It's officially non-canon now, right?

    There are some horrible HORRIBLE episodes in the first three seasons of DS9 and Voyager, but I really don't feel like making a list. :p

    I think one of the most stupid things in Star Trek is in Voyager. Until they get the Delta Flyer, they probably blow up about 20 shuttlecrafts. Seriously?? You have limited resources and you go through shuttles like they are nothing? It was almost a death sentence to board those... Epic fail.
  • skhcskhc Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Oh wait, I thought of something else Voyager related.

    "Demon" - We're out of deuterium, we have to shut down half the ship and get some from this incredibly inhospitable planet, which is the only viable source.

    "The Void" - Who would steal deuterium, you can get it anywhere?

    Yes okay, there may not have been an nicer planet nearby with water from which they could harvest deuterium in "Demon". But did this supply problem crop over night or something? Should be filling her up every time they come across a planet with water.
  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Another springs to mind!

    Bajoran heavy episodes of DS9, like the REALLY heavy ones, made that entire series very difficult to get into...

    And speaking of VOYs "Demon" the second part was just as bad. Another (kinda) reset button episode, and for mimetic goo that mimics life but not metal somehow making a ship? yeah..
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  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    The Outrageous Okona: A lame Han Solo knockoff beams aboard the Enterprise and proceeded to bed every woman on board, including Teri Hatcher. :(

    In the B storyline Data pretends to be Jerry Lewis. :confused:

    The three people who wrote that story thankfully never worked on the show again. :rolleyes:
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  • kdr37kdr37 Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Someone else already said it, but...Spock's Brain. It has to be just about the most stupid thing ever (and an almost criminal waste of talent).
    But then, swathes of TOS s3 are a bit like that. Shatner's overacting and "I...am...KIROK!", anyone? Spectre of the Gun?

    TNG: Geordi and Ensign Ro are out of phase and can run through walls. So why do they not fall straight through the floor? Gravity and inertia must still be affecting them, after all, otherwise they'd have been left floating in space a long time back.

    Seven of Nine and the whole Borg/Federation cultural exchange programme.

    Not so much stupid as (unintentionally?) hilarious: the EMH's loading of the word 'Borg', as in "Seven of Nine's Borg implants..."
    I mean, what else might we assume they meant? ;-)
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited July 2012
    Not using the Insurrection cloaking suits in the Dominion War.
    Voyager
    Nemesis
    Only having Worf from DS9 in First Contact.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Voyager as a whole. I mean, in the pilot episode, why did they not strap a timer onto a torpedo, beam it over to the caretaker array, and have it blow after it sends them home? One might argue they didn't have the timers, but they do practically the same thing to a borg ship a few seasons later!

    And then there's the silverblood, good god the silverblood....
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    So many mentions of Voyager here, let us not forget TNG...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0wbfuBgbTE
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    nynik wrote: »
    So many mentions of Voyager here, let us not forget TNG...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0wbfuBgbTE

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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    Do you think we could convince Cryptic to put that in the game as an alternate forward roll animation for Engineers?

    I don't see why not. It IS canon.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    "Brain? What is Brain?"

    BWAHAHAAH!!!!!! Hilarious! Worse though was the episode about Gideon. A planet terminally overcrowded with people who don't ever die of natural causes? What? did they abolish war too? Seriously, wouldn't they be having issues with starvation and fights to the death over living space if the planet really has THAT many people?
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  • sierrafortunesierrafortune Member Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Anything dealing with the bioneural gelpacks. Apparently the Achilles Heel of a Starfleet Vessel is macaroni and cheese...

    And then there's all the singing moments in TNG. Seriously why are these people breaking into song every other episode?

    And of course 'A Night in Sickbay'.
  • kdr37kdr37 Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    Voyager as a whole. I mean, in the pilot episode, why did they not strap a timer onto a torpedo, beam it over to the caretaker array, and have it blow after it sends them home? One might argue they didn't have the timers, but they do practically the same thing to a borg ship a few seasons later!

    Well...yeees. Fair point. Can't fault the logic.
    And speaking of logic...in what universe could Janeway and Tuvok possibly be friends?
    Janeway: "I can't accept that."
    Tuvok: "Whether or not you choose to accept it, it is the reality. Refusing to accept the reality of a given situation is illogical. As is the lack of mutiny resulting in your death, or at least your permanent exile on the first world we find."

    Hm. Might have to strike the Voyager and Enterprise sets from my wishlist...
  • boglejam73boglejam73 Member Posts: 890 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'll go a different route (thou Voyager is repleat with gold for this topic)....

    I didn't like Enterprise and their apparent lack of planning in everything that had to do with space travel.

    Doesn't seem likely that, in the 100 years of warp-powered spaceflight between ST: First Contact and the start of Enterprise and after meeting at least Vulcans and Denobulins, that no one ever thought out what to do if, say, this shiny new ship ever happens to run into another soul somewhere out in the big, wide galaxy?

    NASA had a 150 page manual on how to use and maintain the space-toilet on the shuttles. Surely someone would have thought out the "What we do when we meet aliens" procedure BEFORE sending people out to meet aliens.

    And I am not talking about a lack of prime directive. That makes sense. I get that. I'm talking about having absolutely no idea or policy on anything.
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  • boglejam73boglejam73 Member Posts: 890 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Oh, and I totally forgot the TOS episode where Kirk is being ridden like a horse by a midget and Spock is Flaminco dancing. Really. It happened. True story.
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    boglejam73 wrote: »
    Oh, and I totally forgot the TOS episode where Kirk is being ridden like a horse by a midget and Spock is Flaminco dancing. Really. It happened. True story.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3CkQzy2mw

    This footage should be locked away in a vault, under the ground, on another planet, forever.
  • boglejam73boglejam73 Member Posts: 890 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    nynik wrote: »

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3CkQzy2mw

    This footage should be locked away in a vault, under the ground, on another planet, forever.

    Thanks for linking that. People weren't going to believe that happened without seeing the footage.
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