Let's not forget that time when primitive 20th century freezer jockeys were thawed out on the Enterprise D and a sleazy 80s business man was able to do pretty much whatever he wanted with the computer. When Picard yells at him, he replies that if there were things he shouldn't be allowed to do, why didn't they set the computer to not allow it? And Picard replies that people shouldn't have to be told they aren't allowed to do certain things, they should be able behave without the computer forcing it.
So, the reason they have such a huge security issue is that they run everything on the honor system. Though I suppose this was right after Worf took over security, so I guess that makes sense.
It's crazy how many problems across the series could have been avoided if there were like, a badge-entry door or something in Engineering.
Especially crazy since everyone's already wearing badges that double as communicators and tracking devices.
His only regret was that he got boneitis? (was that an homage?)
No, they cured his boneitis
Man fuck those parasites.
The first time I saw that episode, I don't remember how old I was, but it was one of the first times I was left home alone. And by total coincidence, right when it was at the most intense part of the episode the power went out at my house. It was night time, during a thunderstorm, and no one else was home.
And then I had to brave the basement to check the breaker box. In the dark. Which was a little Home-Alone-evil-furnace-scene for me under normal circumstances.
The actual truth is Star Fleet is all infiltrators, but no infiltrators know that, and they don't want to blow their cover
Sounds like a future Lower Decks episode to me.
The gang goes infiltrate some fancy pants Starfleet symposium -posing as captains because reasons- in order to find the infiltrator. But it turns out they're all infiltrators.
Section 31 actually knows about all the infiltrators, but at least in early stages of their infiltration when they're trying not to arouse suspicion they end up doing a better job than the human admirals would have anyway, so they're allowed to do their thing.
Must be interesting for the Changeling pretending to be a member of Species 8472 pretending to be a Romulan pretending to be a Vulcan.
Don't forget Starfleet infiltrating Starfleet
"Damn Starfleet officers, they ruined Starfleet!"
Boy you Starfleet officers sure are a contentious lot!
BRING ME PICTURES OF JULIAN BASHIR
It's a good thing that only happens in TV shows and not in real life
Always has been
I think the lesson here is that you should never become an admiral. Kirk was right.
Being an admiral is great. You always have one free violating the prime directive or resisting a direct order from starfleet command and still be captain.
And then once you're a captain you can pretty much violate the prime directive as much as you want with impunity.
I mean, in fairness their strategy for space exploration seems to be to point a starship in a random direction, hit "go" and beam down to every planet with a remotely breathable atmosphere in their PJ onesies.
The impressive part is they still seem to be the dominant superpower in half the galaxy, so... yay for them.
I would probably send drones, but that's why I'm not a Starfleet captain.
I highly recommend the book Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.
"It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!"
Hey, it's why it's so possible to make loving parodies of Trek, right? If it seems okay to Tony Shalhoub it's fine by me.
S1 TNG is fucking bonkers. I know a lot of the plots are straight retellings of TOS stuff, but a bunch of the rest feel even wackier than TOS on it's most TAS day.
‘Wackier than TOS on its most TAS day’ …
You packed an awful lot in that comparison.
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Everyone wants to dance with the pretty girl at the party.
Turns out the pretty girl was an infiltrator
Part of the problem is that Starfleet is too good to use a cloaking device in their ships. Morons.
They had to keep things fair for the Romulans. It's not like cloaked ships have ever gone undetected by Starfleet vessels. They always see tachyons or someshit.
Yeah... after the Romulans are within like half a light year from Earth.
Starfleet took note from Stargate Command
I was kind of annoyed in Picard when the Changeling infiltrator was genetically modified by Starfleet. I thought it would have been way cooler if the physiological changes were a result of working alongside 8472, given that 8472 also wanted to infiltrate Starfleet and potentially didn't have the same blood test vulnerability.
I thought it would have been a neat reference but instead it's just another one of Starfleet's evil secrets.
