The Most Annoying Things On Trek Is...

[TrekSucksHard]

What are the things that most annoyed the heck out of you in Trek? And why!

To me, there is one damn, stupid, crappy, screwy thing which I would just like to say and that is Data's Song and Dance Routine: OK, so what if Brent Spineless is a tap dancer, so what if he has stage experience- is that an excuse to do something this STUPID?! Come on, we don't need a futuristic android strutting and tapping his way to my subconciousness! It SUCKS! Will somebody kill him already (and not leave an out like in ST: NEAR MISS)?! http://messageboard.cinescape.com/cinescape/forums/images/smilies/SmileyAngry.gif

[sickness]

The skin-color-of-the-week or the brain-size-of-the-week in the original series or the forehead-of-the-week in TNG. I know they were limited by budget and technology in both cases, but did it really always have to be a story about another alien race rather than what they had established?

[Son of Gilbert]

Shatner's acting, what do fan boys think of that?

[sickness]

Until WoK and after TVH, I would agree with you.

[Sgt. Awesome]

The way the plots are formed, pick one from Colums A, B, C


The Warp Reactor
The Klingons
The Romulans
The New Aliens
The Crewmember
The Timeloop

Is(are) Exploding
is(are) Attacking
is(are) morphing
is(are) expanding

causing impending doom
causing impending doom
causing a lack of coffee
causing impending doom

[CaptPike]

No matter which series you're watching, ANYONE can get to the bridge. From a stupid kid to an intergalactic terrorist, didn't matter. How hard would voice recognition have been for the computer? Only certain people have any business on the bridge. Ahh, but all the plots that would have ended with some intruder slamming his fist inside the turbolift saying "CRAP"!

[Mobile Vulgus]

Every time I hear "Brain and brain what is brain?", I want to smack someone.

Why did EVERY Trek series have to have an episode where the characters got old and how could they POSSIBLY turned young again afterward???

[tstone]

Berman and Braga.

Nuff said.

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

My only real irritation is with the character of Lwaxana Troi on TNG (and DS9). I just can't stand that character. However, that is a tribute to Majel Barret's acting, I suppose, since she made that character seem real, as obnoxious as she is.

[Bark]

Technobabble and Deus ex machina endings.

[Bark]

Wrong, man. Sisko laughs and grins too. :D

[Space Tycoon]

The Most Annoying Things On Trek Is...



...the fact that it's over. :(





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[colmatrix]

I never really cared for the whole 'no money' deal. C'mon, it would never happen.

[sickness]

Which is why the pretty much disposed of it after Gene died and most of the rest of the Roddenberrys had been marginalized in terms of power. The mentions of credits and bartering and such started in 5th season or so TNG, if I'm not mistaken, and were fleshed out on DS9 and, to some degree, on VOY.

[Space Tycoon]

I always interpreted it to mean two things:

1) "Money no longer exists," meaning cash had been replaced with electronic credit. This raises issues of, among other things, freedom of commerce since every transaction could-- and would-- be monitored by the State.

2) "Material needs no longer exist," meaning that humans had moved away from the kind of consumerism and crass greed that characterizes so mush of modern life. That doesn't necessarily have to be interpreted as the victory of global socialism. After all, socialist societies are usually very materialistic.

The way I see it, Earth during the 22nd, 23rd and 24th centuries had become the political, military and economic hub of the Alpha Quadrant. Interplanetary and interstellar industry and trade had made Earth fantastically wealthy. The mechanization of virtually every form of manual labour enabled humans to focus on "self-improvement" of one form or another--a Rennaissance, which like previous Rennaissance's, would ultimately lead to more humane forms of governance.

Star Trek's worldview is based on the idea that with technological advances, come ethical advances. It takes a lot of faith to believe this, because history shows this is not always the case.



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