Star Trek nitpicking

S01E05 "The Last Outpost"

• If the planet has no signs of life, "sentient or otherwise", then why are there bushes on the planet when they beam down?

S01E09 "The Battle"

• In the second intracommercial segment (near the beginning of the episode), Wesley said "Constellation class starship", but the subtitles said "Constitution class."
• They lost contact with Picard on the Stargazer when he raised his shields, but hadn't he already raised his shields? When did Bok beam off?
• They said Picard was a helmsman on the Stargazer, but then they had him in command of it...?
• How did Bok transmit to the second sphere after he left Picard on the Stargazer?

S01E15 "11001001"

• Computers require power to be lowered to free some space???
• Riker said "What should I choose?", but the subtitles said "What should I do?"
• Riker said "around 2:00a.m.", but the subtitles said "around midnight"
• Why does Wesley refer to the noise the binars makes as high pitched? What they're using as their "primary language" sounds more like garbled human language than like any form of transmitting binary data. And seriously, human language is more efficient than any single-channel binary means of transmission of linguistic data by the time you take the effort to make it fast enough to keep up. Human language has tons of channels.

S01E22 "Symbiosis"

• How is there a "receiving station" of the distress signal? Especially one that can be detected somehow as being in orbit around the third planet?
• Why did Picard hail the ship as "unidentified freighter"? Their distress call clearly identified them with the ship's name, the Sanction.

S02E06 "The Schizoid Man"

• How did their sensors detect the number of people on the Constantinople if they couldn't get a clear read on their transmission or detect whether they actually were having a hull breach?
• Why couldn't the Enterprise come to a full stop to transport them. The 3 seconds Riker wasted in the transporter room before he said "energise" (when they could've probably done it automatically...) surely would've been enough.
• I thought communicators didn't work much more than planet-orbit (without some sort of relay system)... They're talking on their communicators after the Enterprise warps out of their.
• If Graves is the father of Soong's work, what about in Enterprise when they reveal that the Soongs've been at this stuff for generations?
• Why does everyone just hang out away from Graves waiting for his terminal illness to take over?
• "Wrestling with a Klingon Targ"? Wtf Riker? It's not cool to mess with Data like that.

S02E07 "Unnatural Selection"

• Why do they need a beacon to find the other ship again? What happened to coordinates, long-range sensors, etc.?
• Didn't they decide that Data couldn't beam up safely from the quarantine?
• How does this "Data to Enterprise, ready to beam up" thing work? Worf responded to the message on a panel, with no audio
• "Genetic problems caused by the disease"? Isn't it just aging? They're reversing that with a transporter filter of her "normal DNA"? Hm...
• If the readout is supposed to say whether it's working, why were they watching the transporter pad?

S02E13 "Time Squared"

• Why does Troi walk out of Sick Bay when she's ~done talking with Pulaski? Didn't Picard tell her to stay there and watch the other Picard?
• Wouldn't finding the other Picard have slowed them down some and made them reach the vortex later?
• What are the random forces that make the ship rock?
• Why is Riker reporting about how well the engines can hold?
• How can Troi enter the turbolift right after Picard does? Is there another turbolift pod waiting there? I guess I don't understand how they're supposed to work... Somehow there's always one there and no one ever stands waiting for them.
• How is Troi waiting in Sick Bay when Picard gets there??

S02E15 "Penpals"

• If the universal translator is translating the messages, then why does the audio quality still leave something to be desired? Also, apparently the universal translator preserved voice quality?
• Four word message? Why would "Is anybody out there?" be four words in any other language? Why would Data refer to it this way?
• Conference in the captain's quarters??
• Why are the crystals on all of these planets just now becoming a problem? On all the planets, simultaneously. After billions
• How can the computer know that the transmission wasn't received? ("Unable to complete transmission")
• Signal for immediate beam-out if he sees anyone but Sarjenka? And have them see the beam-out?

S03E01 "Evolution"

• In the opening scene, the subtitles had "I didn't think you'd want to miss this" (presumably said by Riker to Wesley), though there was no corresponding audio.
• Data said "twelve seconds to impact sir", but the subtitles said "ten second to impact"
• There are subtitle discrepancies when the computer starts spouting chess moves.
• Modifying circuitry in the universal translator to communicate with the nanites? Is that really necessary?
• If the nanites took over Data's speech processor, then why did he talk with a weird quality to his voice? Exactly how low a level were they operating on?
• "Stellar blast"? Seriously now... They couldn't think up any better terms than that?

S03E06 "Booby Trap"

• If they were getting the distress signal, then why did they need to activate power cells on the ship that was sending it in order to get it to play back when on board?

S03E13 "Déjà Q"

• Why does Data use a tricorder on Q when he's on the bridge? What about internal sensors?
• How would increasing the force fields prevent something from coming in that'd already come in?
• You can transport shuttlecraft???? Why haven't they done this in other episodes??

S04E07 "Reunion"

• How did the computer know Worf wasn't aboard the Enterprise if he'd left his communicator in his quarters? In other episodes people have used this as a way to avoid being located. Granted, he used the transporter, but haven't other people tried this?

S04

• Picard laid in a course for the planet originally, but when he and Wesley left, Riker did it again? Or did I imagine part of that?
• How is the Enterprise going to get radiation poisoning from a garbage scow as Geordi suggests (and later happened)? Don't they constantly avoid radiation from stars and stuff like that?
• Wesley and the captains walk off at least 10° to the right of where the arrow was pointing.
• Why do they think the cave was formed by a river or lava? There's a *doorway* and *steps*.
• Why couldn't they've pulled the ship some of the way, left for a while, and come back and take it the rest of the way through the asteroid belt?
• How many phasers were there? There was that first one that the sentinel got, and then there was Wesley's that it got too, and then there was the other one that the guy was holding when it got him. But which one did Wesley use to make the rocks warm?
• Why did the wall stay on the water after Wesley stopped firing on it? Before it was only there when people shot at it.

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??