Star Trek nitpicking

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S04E14 "Clues"

  • If the Paxan stun field renders a state of biostasis (or whatever), keeping the guys' beards from growing, then how did that one ensign's daily cell rhythms get offset by a day? Note that this was the evidence that cleared all doubts for Picard that they'd missed a day.
  • Where does the term "Paxan" come from? How did Picard know how to use it?
  • Why does Troi's voice change? Isn't the alien just using her mind to communicate? Or did it take over her vocal tract too, moving
  • Did Troi remember being possessed by the Paxans? I guess she seemed to..?

S04E24 "In Theory"

  • If the Enterprise were three lighthours from the class M planet, then why did they say they'd continue scanning (or something) on the way, and why did they have 11 hours to the planet later in the episode? 3 lighthours is like nothing for the ship to travel.
  • And why did it take them like 5 minutes to get clear of the nebula??

S05E16 "Ethics"

  • Do they not have human subjects boards in the 24th century???

S07E06 "Phantasms"

  • At the beginning of the episode the Enterprise is shown leaving Starbase 84. Shortly thereafter they begin testing their new warp drive, which they had installed at the starbase. The drive malfunctions, and the Enterprise is adrift. What's puzzling here is how they got far enough from the starbase to not be able to go back or interact with the base at all once they were adrift, seeing as they couldn't've used warp to get there.
  • When they link Data's dreaming to the Holodeck so that Geordi and Picard can observe and interpret the symbolism in his dreams (why not Troi too??), Data disappears when the holodeck link is activated, and Picard and Geordi remain.
  • Geordi and Picard are supposed to be able to just observe the dream, but then they appear to be able to interact with it. In fact, they take it over while Data just sits there.
  • Why would a positronic subprocessor be able to emit an interphasic pulse. And why would they used Data for this? They wire him to the ship and have the pulse emitted everywhere. This seems to suggest that the ship is capable of emitting this pulse. Couldn't they 've just set the ship to emit this pulse?

S07E08 "Attached"

  • Crusher says, "Well, we have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow. We should get some sleep." Wait, so why were they camping out for the night? At some point not long before that sequence, in broad daylight, they said they had 2km left until the border. They could cover that in, like, 15 minutes. Maybe days on Kesprytt are an hour long??
  • At the end of the episode, how do Picard and Crusher sleep in separate quarters before the implants were removed? On the planet's surface they were unable to get more than even a few metres apart without getting nauseous as a side-effect of being joined.

S07E10 "Inheritance"

  • How was Dr. Soong's program, which he left in Juliana to be discovered if it were learned that she were an android, able to tell Data about how Juliana had left him?

S07E12 "The Pegasus"

  • How did Worf know that the Romulans had a two-day start?
  • Did they restore power to the Pegasus or put their shields around it? If the former, then why weren't the lights on when they beamed in? They had to turn them on manually.
  • So if the caverns of the asteroid were to collapse as Data predicted (should they try to cut their way out of it), what would happen? Surely the shields could withstand a little bit of rock flying around. How big could the asteroid be? They were only a few km from the surface, which suggests that it might be small enough to have a reasonably small mass—i.e., not much gravitational pull to bring pieces of rock "down" on the Enterprise.
  • No "brace for impact" just in case the cloak didn't work?
  • If they're watching the asteroid's rock (which they're inside of) on the view screen, then why aren't they watching it everywhere around them (e.g., on the bridge)? I'm not sure the physics of this cloaking device are internally consistent

S07E17 "Masks"

  • How did the "transformation program" know which deck to make Masaka's temple? Or, alternatively, how did Picard (etc.) know which deck it was going to be made on?
  • Troi said, "Like the sun and the moon, only one of them can be in ascendance at any given time." Wait, since when can the sun and moon not be up at the same time?
  • So why exactly did the alien archive create that scenario? And when the sun went to sleep, everything was transformed back? Could they at least attempt to explain like part of this??