15th January 2007- But it Always Works
15th January 2007- But it Always Works
Two things always bugged me about Star Trek- firstly, the space battles involved very little battling. Even when there was a lot of energy beams and torpedoes going around, it wasn't the Enterprise wasn't firing them. It managed to win everytime by firing once or twice and doing a lot of moving around. This never worked for the bad guys, who despite being highly trained and armed to the teeth always SUCKED and died like tribbles in a blender at a drunken frat party. And if they could fly a shuttlecraft through the Borg's shields, why the hell couldn't they just launch some big-ass nuclear missiles through it?
Secondly, the crews of the main Starfleet ships- the Enterprise, Voyager, Defiant, would always come up with some brilliant problem-solving solution straight from their rear ends at the last minute. Hell, they'd make major scientific breakthroughs on a weekly basis. Babylon 5 was much better. Last minute solution? Species DIES. Homeworlds FLATTENED. Major characters ON ICE. Problems have to be fixed another time.
-Nifty