'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Hate the fact that in TNG onwards they can beam people directly to sickbay/bridge. Yet still have to take turbo lifts.
Just beam people about the ship ffs!!!
The way Voyager pussified the borg, the last few episodes especially but my main biggest gripe is the borg queen in general. Before First Contact, the borg were a faceless foe without identity and without any substance of reason or leadership but when the queen arrived, they become a lot less mysterious and alien.
I'd also say time travel primarily in voyager and a few other instances like the ST4 or even the reboot were pretty bad. In ST, it's done pretty poorly most of the time in terms of making it somewhat believable (ST4 was a pretty bad excuse for time travel although a fun film) but time-related episodes can be interesting like "Cause and Effect" or "City on the Edge of Forever".
I'm more of a casual fan/viewer though.
Not for "nothing". For promotion, self-improvement, reputation, etc. Money isn't the sole driver of ambition.
Plus, as mentioned, the Federation is meant to be an idealized human society.
Star Wars is Conan In Space. It isn't "socially accurate" in any meaningful sense. It's a universe largely defined by the religious conflict between two utterly genocidal ethics, one of which we're supposed to believe is "good" despite an eons-long campaign of deliberate genocide.This is why I'm a Star Wars fan, it's just way more socially accurate.
It's okay for sword-and-sorcery-in-space, but there's no attempt to be "socially accurate". It's also just as terrible as Trek for having every planet be a single climate and culture.
Star Trek and Star Wars are not pinnacles of science fiction, any more than Justin Bieber is a pinnacle of pop music.
i can solve this knot in your head:
starfleet is NOT a MILITARY fleet.
its a fleet of scientists, thaths why those storys are kind of like university (you may not have attended)
basically starfleet is a 50/50 mixture of military and university. which clearly fits into socialist views this whiole startrek thing is based on. its pseudo-military. thats why those storys are so different from your experiences. also ranks and structure are kind of different in starfleet.
that may ALSO explain miles o'brien.
miles never persued a "degree" at starfleet academy, but that doesnt mean he never has been there for one or two lectures about engineering, for example. he is not a signed academy graduate, but he may have attended starfleet academy for career purposes.
so he was there, but never has been there at the same time (when miles talks about this he wants to point out hes not one of those pseudo-half-militarists linked to here motives and morals, when bashir talks about him, he wants to point at sth different i think)
Lazy much? Pretty sure the transporters require a heck of a lot more energy to power. It'd be like taking your car to get to the house across the street.
Also, I agree with other comments that Starfleet is mostly non-military. I'm sure they do have a more militaristic branch, and there are probably ships that specialize in warfare, but the Enterprise is not one of them.
My top 3 trek hates:
3. Holo deck episodes (I love Patrick Stewart but I'm watching Star Trek not Patrick Stewart in Robin Hood/ world war 2 etc)
2. Time travel episodes (always San Francisco)
3. How a one man kazon fighters shield generators can be totally undamaged by a fully powered discharge from voyagers phaser banks, which are several times bigger than the entire fighter itself, and then that that same one person fighter with tiny phaser banks can cause huge damage to voyagers shields despite their shield generators being huge and highly advanced.
"I teleported home one night With Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away And I got Sidney's leg."
Douglas Adams kinda.. in this case from http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Happi-Werld_III
Maybe using transporters for every convenience is unwise
Sorry, not a Star Trek fan, but...
Ships. The Federation ones.
Seriously, they are flying saucers, they are not cool in any way!
1> Power isn't unlimited, and transporters are particularly power-intensive.
2> Transporters aren't infallible. The chance of failure may be small, but using them more and more often increases your personal risk. When the other option is "walk 100 meters", that's pretty ridiculous.
Their immense power capabilities are however the foundation of their less materialistic society. The nilly willy throw objects together from nothing but templates just to suit their dinner needs. I am not entirely convinced they care at all about minor power consumptions like that when it does not involve modulating tachyon beams through the deflector or some such
Edit: Does modulating tachyon beams through the deflector somehow mean something *shrugs* who knows.
Are you implying people do not want to be half plant, half floor board, half human?2> Transporters aren't infallible. The chance of failure may be small, but using them more and more often increases your personal risk. When the other option is "walk 100 meters", that's pretty ridiculous.