Star Trek nitpicking

S01E02 "Encounter at Farpoint" part II

• If there's no circuitry, readouts, etc., then why is there breathable air aboard the the alien "ship"?
• "...creatures able to convert energy into matter". Uhh, don't we all do that? Also, they never said where they got the energy from.
• Just an "energy beam"? How does that work? And why does it need to be "energised"?
• The energy beam's angle makes it look like the Enterprise is very close to Farpoint Station.
• Pink and blue aliens, seriously??
• So, uh, are the Bandi warp-capable?
• Why does Q look like a human [middle-aged white male]? I.e., why does he always appear this way / the same way in all episodes?

S01E05 "The Last Outpost"

• Why does Picard mimic [ˌdaiˈmɔn] as [ˈdemən], establishing the a poor approximation at an English pronunciation for the next couple decades?
• What is this stuff about the Tkon that they have in their databases? It seems someone's deciphered the language, but Picard hasn't heard of them?
• So if "their sun" went supernova, then wouldn't that not affect much of a huge star federation with trillions of citizens? And I know there were more stars, because they showed a map of all the stars involved in the star empire.
• Data mentions the transmitted image was distorted somehow and Troi said she sensed it too, but no one asked Data what his evidence was—i.e., he should know what was distorted in some way.
• Why can they beam down, but not beam back?
• Why did Data beam down ... later? Riker found him in a different place some time after he himself beamed down, having not yet moved down from on top of the inert crystals.
• If the planet has no signs of life, "sentient or otherwise", then why are there bushes on the planet when they beam down?
• They have spectacularly good aim with those whips.

S01E08 "Justice"

• So, are these people not prewarp??? Throughout the episode they seem to not have warp technology. Shouldn't they not be there at all, given ?
• A more fitting name for this episode would be "The Whitest Planet Ever"
• "in or out of our dimension"?
• How do they know that communication was cut off, but Riker (etc.) don't know until later?
• Worf seems to suggest that the women there are Earth women?
• Why is Dr. Crusher examining Data and not Geordi?
• Why didn't Picard leave someone else in charge before leaving the bridge and beaming down?
• How does Troi know that she's the third person to be beamed up?
• When Troi says "Captain!", what exactly is she pointing out? The ship hasn't started moving towards them yet.
• How did the transporter room know who to beam down?
• Picard doesn't argue with Data when he says the Edo share Federation values?
• Why does Crusher walk into the Captain's quarters unannounced?
• Why does Picard say "lock onto this signal" when they're getting ready to beam up? Sometimes the transporter room staff just seems to know * who to beam out in this episode, and sometimes they need to be told how to do their jobs...
• Why do Geordi and Data come onto the bridge and sit down as if they were on the away team too...
• Data says "Captain", but again there's a delay before the vessel starts to fade away.

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 make 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.

S01E18 "Home Soil"

• The Enterprise crew has only ever heard of terraforming before?
• If they pump the water layer out from under the surface, the way it's set up, wouldn't that collapse the surface or something?
• How did Data assume that the laser drill was tracking him? That is, how could it "see" / know where he is? There wasn't anything electronic set up for that, yet Data says he's certain it was a programmatic thing.
• How is making a laser drill a year's work? Data could've fixed that in seconds, right?
• Geordi thinks it would've taken a master programmer to make a program that tracks and anticipates moves?
• If they powered down the station, then why are the lights on outside (but not inside?) when they beam down?
• Is movement really a basic definition for life?
• How is that thing able to make noise?
• "2500 diameters" is a zoom factor?
• Advanced degrees in computer science *and* artificial intelligence? Hm..
• "Terraformers are frequently obsessive" lol
• "What would it hope to learn?" by scanning the crewmembers?? Everything, right?
• "Input overload"????
• Isn't Data inorganic life???
• Wait, Dr. Crusher waited to activate the quarantine field? And what made her suddenly want to activate it??
• Couldn't they just beam the lifeforms down to the planet? They beamed the one up, right?
• How does it have a quicker rapport with the Enterprise's computer than Data? (Data is a computer too, Worf.)
• Hmm, they do end up trying to transport it away. Couldn't they just physically carry it out of the lab, though?
• You already knew it interfaced with the computers, Data!
• So if it needs saline to communicate/grow, then how is it growing in the lab?
• If the translator was shut down, how did the lifeform start talking again?
• How was it able to translate "three centuries" (or anything for that matter)?
• How did the lifeform "remember"/know what had happened on the planet?
• Are they really not prepared to learn more about those lifeforms? It sounds more like the lifeform isn't prepared for them to learn about them.
• How does the translator know what to translate of what the bridge crew says? Or is it just translating everything?

S01E19 "Coming of Age"

• Why are they testing four candidates for entrance to the academy? The testing guy (Chang) said they were all top candidates, but only "one person [would] be accepted for Starfleet Academy". These candidates all seem like obvious picks. Why would they have to test them if they're top candidates? They're all so much better than the Tom Parises the academy normally gets, no? Why not just choose all of them instead of 4 copies of Tom Paris?
• Why are all the tests audio?

S01E15 "The Arsenal of Freedom"

• Oof, so much lame tacky stuff
• Why did Riker freeze when the weapon energy-beamed him?
• How did Yar (or was it Riker? If so, even worse) know that Geordi was in command? How did they know that he was trying to beam them up at that point.
• Why didn't the weapon orbiting the planet disappear when the ones on the planet did after Picard "bought" the weapon system?

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.
• If you think people are infected with a plague, you don't call your top doctor to the same room they're in right away. Though Dr. Crusher does seem to be impervious to most diseases, so I guess she'd be okay. But I definitely wouldn't ever invite Pulaski. Bad idea.
• Why when the Onarans contact the Enterprise, both times when they disconnect, the static remains on the screen view of the planet?

S01E24 "We'll Always Have Paris"

• Why would Data need a countdown from Geordi?
• Why would Troi escort what's-her-name to the holodeck on a date?

S02E03 "Elementary, Dear Data"

• How did Moriarty start noticing stuff before the computer made him became smart?
• Why would the computer report to Worf an "odd power surge", and why would he be unable to investigate it once it was "gone"?
• .. And why would the holodeck create a power surge when remaking the program?
• How did they take the drawing (paper) off the holodeck?
• What does Data mean that Moriarty has access to the computer and might have access to the library files too?
• What does Data mean that Moriarty is still just a fictional character? The Moriarty on the Holodeck is clearly not fictional—he's a holographic character (who's happened to have gained consciousness) *based* on a fictional character.

S02E05 "Loud As A Whisper"

• The inability to communicate with Riva when he used "some sort of gestural language" is the sort of problems they should *always* have. You'd think that the universal translator would be able to deal with non-oral languages too? Linguistics fail.
• Why Riva have learned a signed language secondarily on some other planet if all his family is deaf? So he never would've learned language otherwise? Only his "chorus" echos his thoughts (and language, *and tone*) in English? Linguistics fail.

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 was the distress signal broken? When they got to the ship, everything was in perfect working order. I guess a distress signal in Star Trek is a method of transmitting a really poor quality signal with high amounts of message loss. It makes sense though—it adds to the urgency.
• Weren't they headed on a mission to some hush-hush federation medical emergency? That's what Picard's log entry said at the beginning. But now they're off tracking things based on the distress signal they got after that.
• Why would the captain be around when they're transporting someone into a quarantine forcefield??
• Why did Worf think it was a trick? The 12yo looked older?
• 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?

S02E??

• The Klingon captain said "speak their language" when they were speaking Klingon. Wouldn't Riker's universal translator just translate the Klingon? He didn't seem to understand it (and I thought that's what they were speaking all along..) And since when do the Klingons know English? That one guy was like "this is the first time I've seen someone of your species." How did he learn English so well? And why??? (E.g., Riker doesn't know Klingon..)
• I don't really get this exchange program. How did the Benzoite make ensign in Starfleet but knows little about a Starfleet vesel (and instead only knows Benzoite ship protocol)??
• Why would the Enterprise not know if the Klingon ship had cloaked? Weren't they paying attention to it on sensors or something? (The Klingon ship did go out of its way to monitor the Enterprise only to discover it was following them, but then the Enterprise was looking for / following the Klingon ship)
• How do they know how close the Klingon ship is? Or are the judging distance of the transponder?
• How did they beam through the cloaking shields???

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?

S02E22 "Shades of Gray"

• When Data & Geordi return from the planet, why doesn't the transporter system have issues with the thorn like it did with Riker's infection?
• If the memories are producing an endorphine that's "poisonous" (?) to the "microbes" (?), then couldn't the doctor just synthesise more of that endorphine instead of relying on Riker's memories to create it?

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?

S03E07 "The Enemy"

• The Romulan who was transported onto the Enterprise was not told that he was the only one rescued, but when asked if there were other survivors he lied and said that he was alone. That's quite a risk he was taking, huh?
• "Lock onto the nutrino beam"? Why not onto the two life signs??
• Despite what Picard says, the Romulans won't have the opportunity to fire on the Enterprise only when the shields are lowered—they could fire any time. It just wouldn't be as deadly, right?
• How did Picard know that there was a Romulan in addition to Geordi to lock on to?
• If they're escorting the Romulan ship to the Neutral Zone, then why did the two ships leave orbit of Galorndon Core in different directions in the end?

S03E08 "The Price"

• If the Barzans don't have any resources, do they even have space travel? How are they talking with warp civilisations if they're pre-warp themselves?

S03E10 "The Defector"

• Why did the computer report the incoming message to Picard? Doesn't Worf normally do that? And he was at his post, too. (And why *does* Worf normally report messages. He's a security chief, not the ship's e-mail / voicemail dispatcher..)
• If there's a 22hour delay from the message, how did Starfleet know about the Romulan Defector they picked up? And furthermore, how did they know that the Romulans were demanding him back??
• Why would Picard ask Data about the attitude of the crew???
• The replicator can't make Romulan ale due to limited knowledge of Romulus (as Data put it), but the holodeck has a Valley of Chula program??

S03E11 "The Hunted"

• How did they lose the ship? Do the scanners just stop scanning when they go behind an asteroid? (And what's the asteroid doing where a moon should be?)

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??

S03E21 "Hollow Pursuits"

• Why are the sample containment containers or whatever so volatile. The fall over sideways or get transported in the wrong position and start leaking..
• Why doesn't Data know how to pronounce "metathesis"??
• Why did Picard think of the ventral relay solution? Why was so much being one from the bridge instead of engineering?
• If the computer beeped after Barclay asked for all programs filed under his name to be erased, how did the computer not erase program 9 when Barclay said "except program 9"? Must be a trash bin or some other pre-deletion stage. Because the computer isn't like drag and drop where you still have a change to recover before you let go of the button. It's also possible the computer was waiting for Barclay to walk out the door of the holodeck?

S03E25 "Transfigurations"

• How did they know that John Doe had gone to the shuttle bay? Don't they usually track people by communicators (which John didn't have one of)?
• What was Data doing when everyone was suffocating? I only noticed him stand up from next to the captain when everyone was made better (which happened to be right as John and Beverly made it to the bridge??). It didn't look like he was really helping much..
• What's up with the viewer? Why is it that when the camera angle changes, so does the angle on the view screen? And it's always like this..
• Why did Worf have to check to see that Sunad had been transported back to the Zalkonian ship? Wasn't there a channel open on the view screen?
• Why is the ship travelling when John Doe leaves it as a non-corporeal energy form? Picard hadn't set a course (much less engaged it) anywhere yet...

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?

S04E09 "Final Mission"

• 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? If they'd carried as much weight in water as phasers, there wouldn't've been much issue.
• 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??

S05E05 "Disaster"

• How would an insulator stop the arching electricity? Data didn't completely block its path. And the arch seemed attracted to Data and magically stopped after zapping him. Hmmmm.
• Why is there artificial gravity in the turbo lifts to allow the thing to fall??
• Power can be diverted from the bridge to engineering, but they can't communicate? Hm.

S05E10 "New Ground"

• Why when Worf said "freeze program", the steam on the holodeck continued?
• How did they catch up to the wave if it overtook them so easily?
• Why are they always within 20km or 200km of the wave when it's travelling at warp speeds? That takes some real precision flying..
• How did they release the wave aimed at some colony instead of off into space? I mean, okay, they didn't expect it to keep going, but, just in cases? Srsly?

S05E16 "Ethics"

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

S06E09 "The Quality of Life"

• Why didn't Doctor Farallon not notice that the exocomp had done what several others had in the past?
• Why is Dr. Crusher so bad at defining what makes something alive?
• Data doesn't grow? I thought he said he does in one episode.
• Data says "I have reason to believe that the exocomps are alive", but isn't it just those that've started advancing themselves?
• "Two hours later when it was back aboard the Enterprise"? When had the exocomp been on the Enterprise before that?
• How can the Enterprise beam exocomps onto the station but not beam Geordi and Picard off?
• Why did transporter chief Kelso say he could only get a lock on two of the exocomps? He didn't know that one had gotten fried—why didn't he think he could still just beam that one over?

S06E10 "Chain of Command, Part I"

• How are they going to take the warp coils offline to realign stuff when they're at warp??
• When they're in the underground tunnels, Picard, Worf, and Crusher act like they didn't train repelling...

S06E21 "Timescape"

• Data says "the equipment is no longer functioning" (implying currently not functioning, given that it is presumably because time is "frozen"), but Picard then presses some buttons in finding out that there are security teams sent to transporter room 3, sickbay(?), and engineering. Geordi also is able to interact with the computer in the Romulan engine room a bit later.
• Data says there's a power transfer in progress between the two ships, and Troi immediately says "why would we be sending them power?" How did she know who was sending who the power?
• Why did only the one Romulan out of phase alien (taking the Romulan's body) on the Romulan ship notice Geordi, Troi, and Data? Is it because they were isolated from that alternate timeline?
• Wait, is the Romulan's power source a quantum singularity or a gravity well?
• When the torpedoes hit the Enterprise, it was reported that shields were down to 27%. But they were in the midst of transporting Romulans aboard. Were the shields up, or were they using the transporters??
• Why did the whole Romulan ship disappear when the energy transfer was severed?
• Picard reports that interrupting the energy beam returned spacetime to normal. Didn't they already do this with the tricorder?? Or am I missing something?

S07E01 "Descent, Part II"

• Why does Lore need to lift his fingernail to activate/adjust a hidden transmitter? Couldn't he control such a thing the same way he controls everything else (through his positronic matrix or whatever)?

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"

• How does the Kes ambassador guy who's on the Enterprise know that Crusher and Picard didn't arrive at the meeting point. Shouldn't it be more like "still haven't arrived"—because maybe they were just delayed?
• 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??
• Also, wouldn't that campfire attract attention?
• 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. And we know the implants weren't deactivated...
• Also, didn't they just wake up right before getting across the border? And they went straight to quarters and then back to bed so soon afterwards?
• The Prytt ambassador told them to give Picard and Crusher's coordinates to the Enterprise transporter room, but didn't they need to get both sides to lower their security fields first?

S07E09 "Force of Nature"

• So did Geordi have the engines off when he was trying to make the conversion level more efficient? Right after that they found the Ferengi ship on long range sensors, and then arrived at, so they must've been going along at warp speeds. But the engines didn't seem to be going in that scene in engineering...
• Why did LaForge need to try to set up a special communications link even after the Ferengi ship was repowered?
• How did the Ferengis know how to use the "delta wave" thing immediately (and how did Picard know they would, with his "on screen")?
• "Origin of debris field" shouldn't mean "what does the database say about it?". It should mean "calculate the origin of each piece based on their current trajectories and reconstruct how they fit together / where they came from"
• If La Forge takes them to engineering, then how does
• Warp Drive has not been around for 3 centuries. It's been around for a lot longer, just not among humans...
• If the rift is 0.1 light years, how was it possible to create it so close to the Enterprise without the Enterprise ending up inside of it?
• Was it travel at warp, or the use of warp engines which cause the damage to space? Data's plan only makes sense if the latter, but I had understood that it was the former? How do they know which it is anyway?
• Geordi keeps talking about looking at the research more carefully. But Data looked at it, not Geordi.
• What's the range of the transporters? If they're travelling at warp speed for over two minutes over the span of 0.1 light years (not the beginning of a physics problem to determine average velocity or something—though that's an interesting question), is that really enough time to transport all the people from aboard another starship?
• If the rift expanded by 2.3% (0.0023 light years), and that's all it took to keep them from not being able to make it out of the rift, wouldn't they
• Why did Picard have to say "Engage deflector field full power!" after Geordi said "Mark!" for it to be turned on? And then again? Can't they just turn it on?
• Why does the power (etc.) just come back on as soon as they cleared the rift? The lights got brighter and there was a mechanical "whoop" sound as it happened. Srsly... >:|
• Why does Picard end the meeting so quickly while they're in what I thought was the middle of such an interesting discussion?

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"

• What's the bright light at the beginning? I mean, Data says it's sensor feedback, but why is it visible as light on the bridge? If visible light got through to the bridge, what other [potentially harmful] bands of radiation made it onto the bridge? Why don't they worry about this stuff???
• Wait, the harmful linguistic data was "downloaded" (sic) to the computer from the sensor grid via the replicators? Wtf kind of security vulnerability is that, and how did they miss it in designing the Enterprise?
• Are "boundary" and "border" necessarily different in that language? I guess so.
• In the last shot of the ship and the comet before they fire on the comet, the two appear to be on a collision course??
• How will a level-one diagnostic of Data's positronic net determine whether the archive is in communication with him?
• Yes, Picard, cardinal compass directions are common in many cultures—on Earth...
• Instead of Picard guessing about the meanings of things, why couldn't he just ask Data?
• When Data flinched, the computer made a noise too. Why did Geordi ask Data to tell him what was happening instead of looking at the readout?
• How does Picard know that Masaka is a ‘she’?
• Why did it take Ten Forward being transformed (half the episode) before they realised the matter wasn't being "beamed" aboard?
• "Cerimonial cultures"?? Really, Picard?? The fake anthropology in this episode is pretty hargle bargle.
• How do *archives* rearrange matter??? It's not the archive itself! It's some other aspect of the vessel the archive is on.
• 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? Geordi only gave it the command to make the temple, with no arguments.
• They cleared all personnel from the deck, but Picard, Troi, and Worf stayed on that deck? Is that safe? Does it just not transform humanoid matter, but does transform other things?
• "Ritualistic cultures"??? AGGGHh
• 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? Also, that's Earth—why would it be the same on other planets? Why would there be only one moon?
• Why did La Forge have to find the Kurgano symbol in the system to input it? Did he do that for Masaka's temple's symbol??
• How did the program know where to put the Kurgano mask (right at the console everyone was huddled around)?
• Why did no one follow Picard when he went to pose as Kurgano?
• So Picard (Kurgano) had to convince Masaka to sleep? She wouldn't have on her own?
• So why exactly did the alien archive create that scenario? And when the sun went to sleep, everything was transformed back? What was the point of the program progressively turning the Enterprise into "ritualistic" artifacts until nothing was left of the Enterprise—unless they got Kurgano's mask and convinced Masaka to go to sleep? Could they at least attempt to explain like part of this??
• Riker's really quick to explain that everything "looks like" it's back to normal.
• So Data was an entire civilisation, and the archæological team is going to try to study the archive itself? Data could just do a massive memory dump ("Data dump"? lol) for them and save them a lot of trouble deciphering and translating and interpreting... Maybe this would help his feeling of being psychologically "empty".

S07E19 "Genesis"

• Can't Data run a DNA scan on Spot's kittens before they're born?
• How did the ship get 2 lightyears away
• Data says Deanna "is no longer human", but isn't she normally like half Betazed?
• If your DNA is changed to some other species, wouldn't it take a while for the effects to be seen? That is, existing cells would be unchanged; only new cells, right? Spot turned into an iguana very immediately and suddenly..
• Picard gained attitude control of the ship on the same console that Data was scanning stuff on... A little weird.
• "Causing her DNA to recombine in an earlier configuration"? But didn't Data just say that it's just activating the dormant parts of the DNA?
• Wait, DNA is making them Troi turn into a "lifeform which became extinct over 50 million years ago"? But she has both human and Betazoid DNA, so shouldn't she end up as something new, even if she were "devolving"? Except part of the way this works is that it's randomly selecting (based on the introns) some random previous life form for each person to devolve into? Like "Riker's introns are changing him into what appears to be one of the earlier hominids" (Austolopithicene??) I feel like the explanations aren't matching...
• Lemurs and pygmy marmosets are earlier forms of primate??
• How was the computer damaged?
• The virus didn't get "passed down" to the kittens, but wouldn't the kittens have been infected by it? How will maternal filtration systems reverse the effects of people who have already been "transformed"??
• How did Barclay turn into an arachnid? I don't believe that's part of human DNA?
• The ship no longer looks adrift after the engineering/spider scene... But then the doors and lights in Sick Bay seem to not work?
• Why do Data and Picard just stand there when proto-Worf starts trying to get into Sick Bay to eat them?
• Why do some lights work, like in the turbolifts? And the doors in the Jefferies tubes?
• "DNA to 70% normal"? Lol.
• Does that plasma conduit bypass cord thingy have electricity running through it?? Seems to when Picard uses it to zap proto-Worf.
• Wait, all this happened because of an unforeseen side effect of some treatment Crusher gave Barclay?? Was the treatment a normal one, or was she experimenting? Crusher is so nonchalant about such things, as if she's never heard of an IRB board or any sort of supervisory body.
• "Classify" the new disease after the first patient? Isn't classification different from naming?

S07E20 "Journey's End"

• FERPA must've gone right out the window with IRB legislation if Beverly can just talk to an admiral and find out about Wesley's grades and behaviour at the academy....
• How did Picard know Javier was an ancestor and not just some distant cousin if he didn't recognise the name? Also, it sounded like Picard knows his lineage back to the time of Charlemagne (at least one line), so wouldn't he know of his ancestors? And shouldn't he investigate the claim that this person was his relative?
• Should Wesley be making a mansara (doll) of his father now? How does that tradition work?
• Why is Worf being discreet about forcefully transporting people away? Shouldn't they be told?
• In the first two thirds of the episode, Wesley is sometimes wearing his uniform and sometimes not, and then the fact that he happens to be wearing it at a certain point is important.
• Why do the Cardassians need to send troopers to "rescue" two hostages, when they could just beam them out? Ah, he does finally do that—but only after instigating stuff with the troopers. Picard should've called him on it right away, and he shouldn't've done it in the first place if he didn't want to start a war (which he admitted could happen before he did it, and later admitted he didn't want to happen). Poorly written characters?
• Why does Starfleet Command have to go along with the colony giving up their Federation citizenship? Couldn't they have just decided to be under Cardassian jurisdiction from the start? "No, you must stay in the Federation, even if we have to kill you to do it!" What?
• Has Picard really made up for the "savage" acts of his "ancestor"? I guess if that's what they say...

S07E22 "Bloodlines"

• Wouldn't Picard have to say "Engage!" after setting in a course, warp 5?
• His DNA is a "cross" between his parents' DNA. Okay...
• The disease is hereditary and his father doesn't have it—that doesn't mean his mother should have it... Also if everyone had it and it were fatal, and onset happens in your 20s, wouldn't propagation be pretty impractical?
• Sleeping from midnight to dawn? It's amazing how many planets have identical gravity and daylengths to Earth.
• Again, "plot a course, maximum warp", but Picard didn't say "engage!"
• Were they really able to get to the transporter room and modify the transporter to the extent needed in enough less time than 20 minutes to make the risk worth their while?
• "There is no profit in this for us." Can it get more Ferengi-stereotypical?
• How did Bok resequence Jason's DNA before they met?

S07??? "All Good Things" Part 1

• When Picard said "You see them, don't you?", how did Geordi know that he meant people and not things (i.e., his response "see who?")?

S07??? "All Good Things" Part 2

• How did they beam Worf aboard if he's governor of some planet? Weren't they not at that planet?
• How did Picard know it was bigger in the past just by looking at it on the view screen? Couldn't they be further away or closer or something?
• Why did Dr. Crusher decide on staying for only six hours? Worf didn't give an ETA for those Klingon warships. And then they got there anyway.
• Medical emergency? That's a bit of an overreaction on Data's part...
• Why is data completing his analysis of the anomaly in Sick Bay??
• Why did Riker contact them about core breach and telling them they needed to be beamed out before telling his crew that they needed to be beamed out?
• Why does temporal reversion (did I make that up?) make people younger??? / Causes "coalescing" of their cells?? Shouldn't it affect time itself, not cell development?
• How can Picard breathe on Earth 3½ billion years ago???
• Picard only starts the destruction of humankind because Q allowed him to participate in 3 timelines; it was Picard's curiosity in the future timeline that set the events in motion that started the anomaly. Ignoring for a moment that this is a little circular, isn't Q really the one at fault, not Picard?
• There's something strange with the timelines. It's only after Picard starts travelling between the timelines that the anomalies appear in the earlier two ones, which suggests that the timelines are connected somehow. However, they can't be connected with a shared beginning point of departure, since the anomaly wasn't created until near the end of the last anomaly. And it's also stated in part I that they don't seem to impact each other.
• Did the Pasteur seriously only have 3 crew members aside from their new passengers?
• How can the anomaly have an effect on a 3½billion year-old earth? If it occupies the whole quadrant then, then wouldn't it have disrupted the formation of earth / the solar system earlier, when it would've been bigger? Earth shouldn't even exist, right?
• Why does the anomaly form when three tacheon pulses converge? How can they converge across the time periods without the anomaly to join them? How could the same tacheon pulse be present in one spot and then not be? Again, it means the three time periods are joined somehow.
• Is the anomaly propagating backwards through time? If it destroys mankind, and is present in the earlier two timelines [before it was created in the future timeline?], then wouldn't mankind already be destroyed? I guess it is propagating backwards in time? (????) I guess Geordi and Data talk about it this way too. Talk about a paradox?
• Why does Riker think they could use a hand (re Worf)? There are like dozens of people milling about in Ten Forward.
• Biggest thing so far: WHY DOES THE ANOMALY APPEAR AFTER ITS CREATION IN THE FUTURE TIMELINE INSTEAD OF BEFORE??? This is backwards from how it's working through the rest of the plot...