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* In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E9AMatterOfTime A Matter of Time]]", Rasmussen, a time traveller purporting to be a historian from the 26th century, travels to the Enterprise-D to observe them during a mission. It turns out he's actually from the 22nd century, having stolen the time machine in order to gather information and technology, travel back in time 200 years and get credited as its 'inventor'.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Having already asked the senior staff to fill out lengthy questionnaires, for Rasmussen to turn on the charm and simply ask for samples of the relevant technology (all of which the Enterprise has plenty of and won't miss the odd one or two), claiming that they'll be used as 'museum pieces'. Even if he doesn't get everything he wants, he'll more than likely get enough to set him up for the rest of his very rich, comfortable life.\\
'''Instead''': Rasmussen pickpockets everything he wants from under the nose of the senior staff, who quickly realise the equipment has gone missing and immediately suspect him. When the equipment is discovered on his time-ship by Data, rather than spin a tale of how he felt that his requests would be rejected if he simply asked, Rasmussen actually ''gloats'' about how he got away with his theft, and how he'll also be credited as the inventor of Data himself when his time ship (which is on autopilot, just compounding Rasmussen's stupidity) returns to the 22nd century. Naturally, Rasmussen is blissfully unaware of the fact that the Enterprise's sensors detected and deactivated all of the equipment the second he opened the door of his time ship, rendering him defenseless before Data, who confiscates all of his stolen equipment and arrests him. As the final insult, [[KickTheSonOfABitch Rasmussen is forced to watch as the time ship returns to the 22nd century without him, stranding him 200 years out of time]].
'''You'd Expect''': Having already asked the senior staff to fill out lengthy questionnaires, for Rasmussen to turn on the charm and simply ask for samples of the relevant technology (all of which the Enterprise has plenty of and won't miss the odd one or two), claiming that they'll be used as 'museum pieces'. Even if he doesn't get everything he wants, he'll more than likely get enough to set him up for the rest of his very rich, comfortable life.\\
'''Instead''': Rasmussen pickpockets everything he wants from under the nose of the senior staff, who quickly realise the equipment has gone missing and immediately suspect him. When the equipment is discovered on his time-ship by Data, rather than spin a tale of how he felt that his requests would be rejected if he simply asked, Rasmussen actually ''gloats'' about how he got away with his theft, and how he'll also be credited as the inventor of Data himself when his time ship (which is on autopilot, just compounding Rasmussen's stupidity) returns to the 22nd century. Naturally, Rasmussen is blissfully unaware of the fact that the Enterprise's sensors detected and deactivated all of the equipment the second he opened the door of his time ship, rendering him defenseless before Data, who confiscates all of his stolen equipment and arrests him. As the final insult, [[KickTheSonOfABitch Rasmussen is forced to watch as the time ship returns to the 22nd century without him, stranding him 200 years out of time]].
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** The Xindi in their arc of season 3. They hate humans, and they are building a WaveMotionGun to deliver an EarthShatteringKaboom. Now at this point they have five major advantages: their enemy has no clue they exist, they have four hundred years to refine their prototype, they have allies who give them technology and ''can see the future'', they live in a remote and inaccessible part of space, and they can travel nigh-instantaneously across the galaxy. Now they complete a Small-Country-Shattering-Kaboom prototype of their weapon, and... \\
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** The Xindi in their arc of season 3. They hate humans, fear humans because they were (falsely) told that humanity will destroy them in the future, and they are building a WaveMotionGun to deliver an a pre-emptive EarthShatteringKaboom. Now at this point they have five major advantages: their enemy has no clue they exist, they have four hundred years to refine their prototype, they have allies who give them technology and ''can see the future'', they live in a remote and inaccessible part of space, and they can travel nigh-instantaneously across the galaxy. Now they complete a Small-Country-Shattering-Kaboom prototype of their weapon, and... \\
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'''Instead''': They test the prototype on Earth itself. Earth immediately sends ''Enterprise'' after them, which: finds them, destroys their next prototype, convinces them not to blow up Earth, and ''murders their future-seeing allies''. Good job, Xindi! You failed only because of your own stupidity.\\
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'''Instead''': They test the prototype on Earth itself. Earth immediately sends ''Enterprise'' after them, which: finds them, destroys their next prototype, convinces them not to blow up Earth, and ''murders sends their future-seeing allies''.allies back to the trans-dimensional realm they came from. Good job, Xindi! You failed only because of your own stupidity.\\
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* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime}} Amok Time]]", Kirk learns that Spock is going through what Vulcans call "''Pon farr''", which is driving him out of his Vulcan mind, and he must [[MateOrDie return home to mate or he will die]]. The problem is that the ''Enterprise'' already has an important mission at Altair VI, so Kirk contacts Starfleet to request permission to divert to Vulcan. Complicating matters, however, is the fact that Kirk has promised Spock that he won't tell a soul about the ''Pon farr''.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Kirk would tell Admiral Komack something both honest yet non-specific that would get him the permission he needs. Something like "My first officer has fallen gravely ill, and the only way to save his life is to get him to Vulcan right away."\\
'''Instead:''' Kirk refuses to tell Komack anything, and thus fails to get permission to go to Vulcan. So, of course, he bucks orders and goes there anyway, and is only saved from a court-martial by T'Pau's influence.
'''You'd Expect:''' Kirk would tell Admiral Komack something both honest yet non-specific that would get him the permission he needs. Something like "My first officer has fallen gravely ill, and the only way to save his life is to get him to Vulcan right away."\\
'''Instead:''' Kirk refuses to tell Komack anything, and thus fails to get permission to go to Vulcan. So, of course, he bucks orders and goes there anyway, and is only saved from a court-martial by T'Pau's influence.
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'''You'd Expect''': That since our heroes now [[HeKnowsTooMuch know all about the plan]], Sela would immediately [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim have them eliminated]]. Or at least keep them under heavy guard at all times. They literally serve no purpose.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': That since our heroes now [[HeKnowsTooMuch know all about the plan]], Sela would immediately [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim have them eliminated]]. Or at least keep them under heavy guard at all times. They literally no longer serve no any purpose.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Starfleet to realize that he's correct, and put him on a ship that's working correctly. After all, he does admit there are others he could send but doesn't want to. Or at the very least, grab every unassigned engineer in the vicinity of Earth and put them on the ''Enterprise'' so as to get the ship working as well as possible by the time they arrive at Nimbus III.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Starfleet to realize that he's correct, and put him on a ship that's working correctly. After all, he Admiral Bennett does admit there are others he could send but doesn't want to. Or at the very least, grab every unassigned engineer in the vicinity of Earth and put them on the ''Enterprise'' so as to get the ship working as well as possible by the time they arrive at Nimbus III.\\
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'''Instead:''' She has them all killed immediately, giving Damar one more incentive to see the Dominion destroyed.
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'''Instead:''' She has them all killed immediately, eliminating any leverage she would've had on Damar and giving Damar him one more incentive to see the Dominion destroyed.
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** Following an unwitting time jump back to the year 2063, an ''Enterprise'' landing party has to help Zefram Cochrane make his warp speed flight in order to ensure that first contact with the Vulcans goes ahead as it should. Cochrane initially isn't inclined to repair his damaged warp ship following a Borg attack, but the landing party get him on-board by telling him a few vague details about the future and showing him the ''Enterprise''-D through a telescope.\\
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** Following an unwitting time jump back to the year 2063, an ''Enterprise'' landing party has to help Zefram Cochrane make his warp speed flight in order to ensure that first contact with the Vulcans goes ahead as it should. Cochrane initially isn't inclined to repair his damaged warp ship following a Borg attack, but the landing party get him on-board by telling him a few vague details about the future and showing him the ''Enterprise''-D ''Enterprise''-E through a telescope.\\
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** Another moment occurs during this debacle: The Federation's science team (consisting of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Geordi and Data]]) is accompanied by a Ferengi team. Once they both go through the wormhole, Geordi and Data discover that they're not where they're supposed to be. It turns out that the endpoint of the wormhole shifts location every so often, and Geordi's sensors indicate that another shift is imminent. He immediately warns the Ferengi that they need to get the hell out of there ''now''.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Ferengi would listen. One of them ''is'' a scientist, after all; he should be able to verify what Geordi's telling him.\\
'''Instead''': The Ferengi tell Geordi to shut up. As a result, Geordi and Data make it back into the wormhole just before the endpoint shifts, trapping the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant.
'''You'd Expect''': The Ferengi would listen. One of them ''is'' a scientist, after all; he should be able to verify what Geordi's telling him.\\
'''Instead''': The Ferengi tell Geordi to shut up. As a result, Geordi and Data make it back into the wormhole just before the endpoint shifts, trapping the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant.
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** Another moment occurs during this debacle: The Federation's science team (consisting of [[HeterosexualLifePartners Geordi and Data]]) is accompanied by a Ferengi team. Once they both go through the wormhole, Geordi and Data discover that they're not where they're supposed to be. It turns out that the endpoint of the wormhole shifts location every so often, and Geordi's sensors visor can detect fluctuations in the wormhole that indicate that another shift is imminent. He immediately warns the Ferengi that they need to get the hell out of there ''now''.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Ferengi would listen. One of them ''is'' a scientist, after all; though heshould be able to can't verify what Geordi's telling him.visor data, he can verify that they're in the wrong quadrant of space.\\
'''Instead''': The Ferengitell Geordi flatly refuses to shut up.even entertain Geordi's warnings, going so far as to say he won't even confirm their position. As a result, Geordi and Data make it back into the wormhole just before the endpoint shifts, trapping the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant.
'''You'd Expect''': The Ferengi would listen. One of them ''is'' a scientist, after all; though he
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* in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E12Homeward Homeward]]", Worf's adoptive brother Nikolai Rozhenko uses forcefields to shelter some natives of Boraal II, a pre-industrial planet he's observing, the atmosphere of which is gradually breaking down. After being beamed aboard the ''Enterprise'', Nikolai requests to be allowed to set up an atmospheric bubble that will protect the town he was observing.\\
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* in In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E12Homeward Homeward]]", Worf's adoptive brother Nikolai Rozhenko uses forcefields to shelter some natives of Boraal II, a pre-industrial planet he's observing, the atmosphere of which is gradually breaking down. After being beamed aboard the ''Enterprise'', Nikolai requests to be allowed to set up an atmospheric bubble that will protect the town he was observing.\\
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** The film begins with the Borg sending another cube to attack and assimilate Earth.[[note]](We'll be generous and say that repeating a plan that previously failed on the TV series doesn't count as idiocy, as that plan would actually have worked if not for the ''Enterprise''-D crew stumbling across an AchillesHeel they used to destroy the cube, and the Borg would almost certainly have fixed it in the six years since)[[/note]] The new ''Enterprise''-E is specifically mentioned by Geordi as being the most advanced warship in the fleet, but Starfleet doesn't trust Captain Picard due to his prior assimilation by the Borg.\\
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** The film begins with the Borg sending another cube to attack and assimilate Earth.[[note]](We'll be generous and say that repeating a plan that previously failed on the TV series doesn't count as idiocy, as that plan would actually have worked if not for the ''Enterprise''-D crew stumbling across an AchillesHeel they used to destroy the cube, and the Borg would almost certainly have fixed it in the six years since)[[/note]] since.)[[/note]] The new ''Enterprise''-E is specifically mentioned by Geordi as being the most advanced warship in the fleet, but Starfleet doesn't trust Captain Picard due to his prior assimilation by the Borg.\\
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'''Instead:''' They hide the ship in a lake near the village because...um...because...okay, ''why'' was that ship in a lake? Not even a token attempt at an explanation?\\
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'''Instead:''' They hide the ship in a lake near the village, which isn't even given a token excuse. Even if one were to be charitable and assume they were worried it might be detected in space despite the cloak (even though the Son'a ''couldn't'' detect it being launched or drifting just off their bow), they could hide it hundreds of miles away from the village because...um...because...okay, ''why'' was that ship in a lake? Not even a token attempt at an explanation?\\and it would still perform its function exactly the same.\\
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* After Damar launches LaResistance against the Dominion, the Female Changeling orders her {{mooks}} to locate his family. As of "Tacking Into the Wind", they've succeeded.\\
'''You'd Think:''' That if the Changeling wanted to reduce Damar's effectiveness, she'd [[IHaveYourWife hold his family hostage]] and threaten to execute them if he launches another attack or refuses to surrender. At most, she might kill one of the kids on the spot, just to show that she's serious.\\
'''Instead:''' She has them all killed immediately, giving Damar one more incentive to see the Dominion destroyed.
'''You'd Think:''' That if the Changeling wanted to reduce Damar's effectiveness, she'd [[IHaveYourWife hold his family hostage]] and threaten to execute them if he launches another attack or refuses to surrender. At most, she might kill one of the kids on the spot, just to show that she's serious.\\
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* ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection:''
** So TheFederation and the Son'a have teamed up to remove an agrarian race called the Ba'ku from their Fountain-of-Youth planet. The key to doing so is a cloaked ship that is essentially a warp-driven holodeck programmed to recreate the Ba'ku village.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That they'd keep the ship safely in orbit, which is where a starship belongs.\\
'''Instead:''' They hide the ship in a lake near the village because...um...because...okay, ''why'' was that ship in a lake? Not even a token attempt at an explanation?\\
'''The Result''': Data's tricorder detects the neutrino emissions from the InvisibilityCloak, setting off a series of events that derails the whole plan.
** So TheFederation and the Son'a have teamed up to remove an agrarian race called the Ba'ku from their Fountain-of-Youth planet. The key to doing so is a cloaked ship that is essentially a warp-driven holodeck programmed to recreate the Ba'ku village.\\
'''You'd Expect''': That they'd keep the ship safely in orbit, which is where a starship belongs.\\
'''Instead:''' They hide the ship in a lake near the village because...um...because...okay, ''why'' was that ship in a lake? Not even a token attempt at an explanation?\\
'''The Result''': Data's tricorder detects the neutrino emissions from the InvisibilityCloak, setting off a series of events that derails the whole plan.
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** The film begins with the Borg sending another cube to attack and assimilate Earth.[[note]](We'll be generous and say that repeating a plan that previously failed on the TV series doesn't count as idiocy, as that plan would actually have worked if not for the ''Enterprise''-D crew stumbling across an AchillesHeel they used to destroy the cube, and the Borg would almost certainly have fixed it in the six years since)[[/note]] The new ''Enterprise''-E is specifically mentioned by Geordi as being the most advanced warship in the fleet, but Starfleet doesn't trust Captain Picard due to his prior assimilation by the Borg.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Starfleet to order Picard to temporarily step down and hand command over to Riker, who did command the mission that saw the first cube destroyed, after all. Or, if they don't trust Riker either due to his stupidity in getting the ''Enterprise''-D destroyed, order Picard to hand command over to Data, who commanded the ''Enterprise''-D on several occasions, has mastered the use of his emotion chip, and can even deactivate it if need be.\\
'''Instead''': They order the ''Enterprise'' to patrol the Romulan neutral zone, thus ensuring that their fleet is on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle when it confronts the Borg cube. Fortunately, Picard decides to disregard his orders and go to help the fleet anyway, but they may have suffered fewer losses if he'd been there from the start.
** Following an unwitting time jump back to the year 2063, an ''Enterprise'' landing party has to help Zefram Cochrane make his warp speed flight in order to ensure that first contact with the Vulcans goes ahead as it should. Cochrane initially isn't inclined to repair his damaged warp ship following a Borg attack, but the landing party get him on-board by telling him a few vague details about the future and showing him the ''Enterprise''-D through a telescope.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Now that Cochrane's willing to do the flight, that Geordi would just tell him the bare minimum needed to get his ship up and running again. Given that the entire reason they're here is to prevent the Borg from screwing up Earth's history, the last thing Geordi wants to do is potentially screw it up even worse.\\
'''Instead''': He turns into an AscendedFanboy of ridiculous proportions and blabs just about every detail of Cochrane's future to the man, not seeing the problem in what he's doing until Barclay shows up and starts doing the same thing turned UpToEleven. By this time Geordi has already nearly fatally screwed up the mission, as Cochrane sneaks off into the woods and tries to flee, having been scared out of wanting to attempt the flight; Riker ends up having to stun him and literally drag him to the launch bay.
** The film begins with the Borg sending another cube to attack and assimilate Earth.[[note]](We'll be generous and say that repeating a plan that previously failed on the TV series doesn't count as idiocy, as that plan would actually have worked if not for the ''Enterprise''-D crew stumbling across an AchillesHeel they used to destroy the cube, and the Borg would almost certainly have fixed it in the six years since)[[/note]] The new ''Enterprise''-E is specifically mentioned by Geordi as being the most advanced warship in the fleet, but Starfleet doesn't trust Captain Picard due to his prior assimilation by the Borg.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Starfleet to order Picard to temporarily step down and hand command over to Riker, who did command the mission that saw the first cube destroyed, after all. Or, if they don't trust Riker either due to his stupidity in getting the ''Enterprise''-D destroyed, order Picard to hand command over to Data, who commanded the ''Enterprise''-D on several occasions, has mastered the use of his emotion chip, and can even deactivate it if need be.\\
'''Instead''': They order the ''Enterprise'' to patrol the Romulan neutral zone, thus ensuring that their fleet is on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle when it confronts the Borg cube. Fortunately, Picard decides to disregard his orders and go to help the fleet anyway, but they may have suffered fewer losses if he'd been there from the start.
** Following an unwitting time jump back to the year 2063, an ''Enterprise'' landing party has to help Zefram Cochrane make his warp speed flight in order to ensure that first contact with the Vulcans goes ahead as it should. Cochrane initially isn't inclined to repair his damaged warp ship following a Borg attack, but the landing party get him on-board by telling him a few vague details about the future and showing him the ''Enterprise''-D through a telescope.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Now that Cochrane's willing to do the flight, that Geordi would just tell him the bare minimum needed to get his ship up and running again. Given that the entire reason they're here is to prevent the Borg from screwing up Earth's history, the last thing Geordi wants to do is potentially screw it up even worse.\\
'''Instead''': He turns into an AscendedFanboy of ridiculous proportions and blabs just about every detail of Cochrane's future to the man, not seeing the problem in what he's doing until Barclay shows up and starts doing the same thing turned UpToEleven. By this time Geordi has already nearly fatally screwed up the mission, as Cochrane sneaks off into the woods and tries to flee, having been scared out of wanting to attempt the flight; Riker ends up having to stun him and literally drag him to the launch bay.
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'''You'd Expect:''' Let's be charitable and grant that Spock's refusal to shoot Sybok isn't an act of idiocy (even Sybok has already taken hostages and made clear his intention to hijack the ''Enterprise'', and Spock has no idea whether or not Sybok has turned into an extremist in pursuit of his beliefs). In that case, Spock could still nerve-pinch Sybok, hit him with the butt of the rifle, or just punch him in the face. Hell, he could just shoot him in the leg; Sybok would survive a non-vital hit from a glorified potato gun.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Let's be charitable and grant that Spock's refusal to shoot Sybok isn't an act of idiocy (even though Sybok has already taken hostages and made clear his intention to hijack the ''Enterprise'', and Spock has no idea whether or not Sybok has turned into an extremist in pursuit of his beliefs). In that case, Spock could still nerve-pinch Sybok, hit him with the butt of the rifle, or just punch him in the face. Hell, he could just shoot him in the leg; Sybok would survive a non-vital hit from a glorified potato gun.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Let's be charitable and grant that Spock's refusal to shoot Sybok isn't an act of idiocy (even though for all he knows Sybok could a terrorist who intends to use the ''Enterprise'' to attack the Federation, Klingons and/or Romulans). In that case, Spock could still nerve-pinch Sybok, hit him with the butt of the rifle, or just punch him in the face. Hell, he could just shoot him in the leg; Sybok would survive a non-vital hit from a glorified potato gun.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': The ''Enterprise'' crew to sympathise with Nikolai, but point out that his plan isn't practical. He would only save the population of a single town, confine them to an extremely small geological area, and leave them without the numbers to sustain a viable population; it would be arguably more a FateWorseThanDeath. To say nothing of the fact that if the equipment generating the bubble ever failed, the Boraalans would die instantly.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': The ''Enterprise'' crew to sympathise with Nikolai, but point out that his plan isn't practical. He would only save the population of a single town, confine them to an extremely small geological geographical area, and leave them without the numbers to sustain a viable population; it would be arguably more a FateWorseThanDeath. To say nothing of the fact that if the equipment generating the bubble ever failed, the Boraalans would die instantly.\\
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* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead}} And the Children Shall Lead]]", Gorgan, the MonsterOfTheWeek has brainwashed a bunch of children to do his bidding, which includes getting the crew to divert the ship to a heavily-populated colony and causing hallucinations so that they don't alter course. Eventually, Kirk and Spock, who still haven't been affected by the hallucinations, come up to the bridge to see what's happening.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The children to sneak off the bridge, and then summon Gorgan to give him a progress report. Kirk and Spock will probably still suspect that ''something'' weird is being caused by the children, but they won't know exactly what.\\
'''Instead:''' They summon Gorgan ''on the bridge, in front of Kirk and Spock''. Even Gorgan indirectly chides them for their carelessness, and the only reason why this doesn't result in his immediate defeat is the fact that Kirk himself has a fairly firm grip on the IdiotBall throughout this episode. It still ends up playing a major part in Gorgan's downfall, as Kirk summons him again by replaying a recording of the children performing the summoning ritual.
'''You'd Expect:''' The children to sneak off the bridge, and then summon Gorgan to give him a progress report. Kirk and Spock will probably still suspect that ''something'' weird is being caused by the children, but they won't know exactly what.\\
'''Instead:''' They summon Gorgan ''on the bridge, in front of Kirk and Spock''. Even Gorgan indirectly chides them for their carelessness, and the only reason why this doesn't result in his immediate defeat is the fact that Kirk himself has a fairly firm grip on the IdiotBall throughout this episode. It still ends up playing a major part in Gorgan's downfall, as Kirk summons him again by replaying a recording of the children performing the summoning ritual.
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* In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead}} And the Children Shall Lead]]", Gorgan, the MonsterOfTheWeek has brainwashed a bunch of children to do his bidding, which includes getting the crew to divert the ship to a heavily-populated colony and causing hallucinations so that they don't alter course. Eventually, This causes Kirk to unwittingly beam two {{Red Shirt}}s into space, not knowing that they've left orbit from the planet where they picked up the children, and Spock, who still haven't been affected by the hallucinations, come up to on discovering this, he calls the bridge to see what's happening.angrily demand to know why they've altered course, and says that he and Spock are coming up there.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The children to sneak off thebridge, bridge before Kirk and Spock arrive, and then summon Gorgan to give him a progress report. Kirk and Spock will probably still may suspect that ''something'' weird is being caused by the children, but they won't know exactly what.\\
'''Instead:''' They summon Gorgan ''on the bridge,in front of right there and then'', and he materialises just as Kirk and Spock''. Spock arrive. Even Gorgan indirectly chides them the children for their carelessness, and the only reason why this doesn't result in his immediate defeat is the fact that Kirk himself has a fairly firm grip on the IdiotBall throughout this episode. It still ends up playing a major part in Gorgan's downfall, as Kirk summons him Gorgan again at the climax by replaying a recording of the children performing the summoning ritual.
'''You'd Expect:''' The children to sneak off the
'''Instead:''' They summon Gorgan ''on the bridge,
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'''You'd Expect''': The ''Enterprise'' crew to sympathise with Nikolai, but point out that his plan isn't practical. He would only save the population of a single town, confine them to an extremely small geological area, and leave them without the numbers to sustain a viable population; it would be arguably more a FateWorseThanDeath. To say nothing of the fact that if the equipment generating the bubble ever failed, the Boraalans would die instantly.\\
'''Instead''': Picard berates Nikolai, telling him that the Prime Directive says they shouldn't save the Boraalans, ergo they have nothing to discuss. Dr. Crusher is the only crewmember even vaguely supportive of Nikolai, and even then is shouted down almost immediately by the others. Moreover, Picard bans Nikolai from returning to the planet and tells him that he will likely face career-ending consequences for his little stunt, causing Nikolai, who now has nothing left to lose, to covertly transport the Boraalans that he saved onto one of the ''Enterprise'' holodecks, leaving the crew needing to find a new planet for them.
'''You'd Expect''': The ''Enterprise'' crew to sympathise with Nikolai, but point out that his plan isn't practical. He would only save the population of a single town, confine them to an extremely small geological area, and leave them without the numbers to sustain a viable population; it would be arguably more a FateWorseThanDeath. To say nothing of the fact that if the equipment generating the bubble ever failed, the Boraalans would die instantly.\\
'''Instead''': Picard berates Nikolai, telling him that the Prime Directive says they shouldn't save the Boraalans, ergo they have nothing to discuss. Dr. Crusher is the only crewmember even vaguely supportive of Nikolai, and even then is shouted down almost immediately by the others. Moreover, Picard bans Nikolai from returning to the planet and tells him that he will likely face career-ending consequences for his little stunt, causing Nikolai, who now has nothing left to lose, to covertly transport the Boraalans that he saved onto one of the ''Enterprise'' holodecks, leaving the crew needing to find a new planet for them.
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** The ''Enterprise'' arrives at the planet Altamid on an apparent rescue mission, but not long after arriving is suddenly ambushed by a huge swarm -- a ''quarter-million'' of them, according to WordOfGod -- of small, two-man spacecraft, who quickly launch an attack.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kirk to order immediate warp speed in any direction away from the swarm. Even if the ships making it up are only small and weak (which they're decidedly ''not''), there's no feasible way for the ''Enterprise'' to take out such an ungodly huge number of ships, as Spock points out.\\
'''Instead''': Kirk orders the ship to open fire on the swarm, accomplishing nothing. The swarm proceeds to absolutely annihilate the weapons, warp engines and deflector array of the ''Enterprise'' in a matter of seconds, and it's only because of a MacGuffin that the swarm's leader, Krall wants being aboard the ship that it isn't instantly reduced to a pulverized cloud of debris.
'''You'd Expect''': Kirk to order immediate warp speed in any direction away from the swarm. Even if the ships making it up are only small and weak (which they're decidedly ''not''), there's no feasible way for the ''Enterprise'' to take out such an ungodly huge number of ships, as Spock points out.\\
'''Instead''': Kirk orders the ship to open fire on the swarm, accomplishing nothing. The swarm proceeds to absolutely annihilate the weapons, warp engines and deflector array of the ''Enterprise'' in a matter of seconds, and it's only because of a MacGuffin that the swarm's leader, Krall wants being aboard the ship that it isn't instantly reduced to a pulverized cloud of debris.
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* In "The Deadly Years", Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and Scotty are stricken by radiation-induced aging that also kills a female RedShirt. Kirk's failing mental faculties lead to him being relieved of command by the visiting Commodore Stocker, thus leaving him as the highest-ranking officer on the ''Enterprise''. However, despite his rank, he has never commanded a starship.\\
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* In "The "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears}} The Deadly Years", Years]]", Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and Scotty are stricken by radiation-induced aging that also kills a female RedShirt. Kirk's failing mental faculties lead to him being relieved of command by the visiting Commodore Stocker, thus leaving him as the highest-ranking officer on the ''Enterprise''. However, despite his rank, he has never commanded a starship.\\
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* In the two-parter "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow}} In Purgatory's Shadow]] "/"[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E15ByInfernosLight}} By Inferno's Light]]", Garak and Worf are captured in a runabout and taken to an asteroid prison.\\
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* In the two-parter "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow}} In Purgatory's Shadow]] "/"[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E15ByInfernosLight}} Shadow]]"/"[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E15ByInfernosLight}} By Inferno's Light]]", Garak and Worf are captured in a runabout and taken to an asteroid prison.\\
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** In the series finale, an older version of Janeway plans to negate her own timeline by helping Voyager get back much earlier than intended. She'll have to break a lot of rules to accomplish her plan, though.\\
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** In the series finale, "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame}} Endgame]]", an older version of Janeway plans to negate her own timeline by helping Voyager get back much earlier than intended. She'll have to break a lot of rules to accomplish her plan, though.\\
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** In the episode "Timeless", Harry Kim and Tom Paris manage to build a slipstream drive like the one on the alien ship from "Hope and Fear". Problem is, it destabilizes after a few minutes, so they have to make constant course corrections. Harry tries but can't keep up, killing the entire crew except himself and Chakotay. A future version of Harry Kim rewrites the past so that the ship drops out of transwarp after two or three minutes in its trial run, so that it doesn't crash and kill the crew.\\
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** In the episode "Timeless", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E6Timeless}} Timeless]]", Harry Kim and Tom Paris manage to build a slipstream drive like the one on the alien ship from "Hope and Fear". Problem is, it destabilizes after a few minutes, so they have to make constant course corrections. Harry tries but can't keep up, killing the entire crew except himself and Chakotay. A future version of Harry Kim rewrites the past so that the ship drops out of transwarp after two or three minutes in its trial run, so that it doesn't crash and kill the crew.\\
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** In "Someone to Watch Over Me", the Doctor and Paris have a bet going to see if he can teach Seven how to go on a date without being her usual overbearing self. After an early attempt is messed up by Seven tearing the guy's ligament during a dance, the Doctor takes her himself for the "final exam", so to speak, which is a dinner being held for an alien ambassador. The Doctor's teachings work, and Seven does splendidly.\\
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** In "Someone "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E21SomeoneToWatchOverMe}} Someone to Watch Over Me", Me]]", the Doctor and Paris have a bet going to see if he can teach Seven how to go on a date without being her usual overbearing self. After an early attempt is messed up by Seven tearing the guy's ligament during a dance, the Doctor takes her himself for the "final exam", so to speak, which is a dinner being held for an alien ambassador. The Doctor's teachings work, and Seven does splendidly.\\
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** In "Night", a Malon captain is poisoning a sentient species by dumping his toxic cargo in their otherwise empty region of space. To try and solve this, the crew offers to show the captain how to build a means to recycle their toxic waste. The Malon captain admits this would solve a lot of problems on his world, and as other Malon episodes show managing the toxins is a constant and very dangerous problem for the Malon people.\\
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** In "Night", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E1Night}} Night]]", a Malon captain is poisoning a sentient species by dumping his toxic cargo in their otherwise empty region of space. To try and solve this, the crew offers to show the captain how to build a means to recycle their toxic waste. The Malon captain admits this would solve a lot of problems on his world, and as other Malon episodes show managing the toxins is a constant and very dangerous problem for the Malon people.\\
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** In the episode "Basics", the crew is stranded on a hostile alien planet without technology and realize they are going to have to rough it if they want to survive. [[CreatorsPet Neelix]], the survival expert ([[InformedAttribute despite having shown absolutely no survival skills whatsoever in previous episodes]]), is given command of a team where they decide to gather as much bones as possible to use for tools from right near the mouth of a cave.\\
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** In the episode "Basics", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E26S3E1Basics}} Basics]]", the crew is stranded on a hostile alien planet without technology and realize they are going to have to rough it if they want to survive. [[CreatorsPet Neelix]], the survival expert ([[InformedAttribute despite having shown absolutely no survival skills whatsoever in previous episodes]]), is given command of a team where they decide to gather as much bones as possible to use for tools from right near the mouth of a cave.\\
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** In "Repression", someone is attacking the former Maquis on ''Voyager'' and putting them in comas. For safety reasons, Chakotay tells the Maquis to pair off and not go anywhere alone. Some time later, he and his partner (a female Vulcan RedShirt) come across Chell by himself and learn that his partner was B'Elanna, but she ditched him because she thought she could take care of herself (either that, or she just got tired of his constant paranoia).\\
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** In "Repression", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E4Repression}} Repression]]", someone is attacking the former Maquis on ''Voyager'' and putting them in comas. For safety reasons, Chakotay tells the Maquis to pair off and not go anywhere alone. Some time later, he and his partner (a female Vulcan RedShirt) come across Chell by himself and learn that his partner was B'Elanna, but she ditched him because she thought she could take care of herself (either that, or she just got tired of his constant paranoia).\\
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** "The Raven" and "Dark Frontier" provide Seven of Nine's backstory. It starts when her parents, Magnus and Erin Hansen, decide to study a mysterious but dangerous force called the Borg.\\
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** "The Raven" "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E6TheRaven}} The Raven]]" and "Dark Frontier" "[[{{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E15DarkFrontier}} Dark Frontier]]" provide Seven of Nine's backstory. It starts when her parents, Magnus and Erin Hansen, decide to study a mysterious but dangerous force called the Borg.\\
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** In the pilot episode, ''Enterprise'' traces Klaang's abduction to the Suliban helix. Archer and Trip have already broken him out of his restraints, and while Trip takes him back to ''Enterprise'', Archer ends up in the temporal chamber with the invisible Silik. Now, Silik has already interrogated Klaang with truth serum and determined that he knows nothing, and he suspects the same of Archer, meaning that he's not a threat. Therefore, Silik graciously allows Archer to leave unharmed.\\
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** In the pilot episode, "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E01E02BrokenBow}} Broken Bow]]", ''Enterprise'' traces Klaang's abduction to the Suliban helix. Archer and Trip have already broken him out of his restraints, and while Trip takes him back to ''Enterprise'', Archer ends up in the temporal chamber with the invisible Silik. Now, Silik has already interrogated Klaang with truth serum and determined that he knows nothing, and he suspects the same of Archer, meaning that he's not a threat. Therefore, Silik graciously allows Archer to leave unharmed.\\
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** The episode "Terra Nova" reveals one that happened decades ago (from our heroes' perspective). To wit: Earth discovers an M-class planet about nine light-years away and sends a ship over to begin colonizing it. This leads to the foundation of the Terra Nova colony, with a population of roughly 200. Since this seems to be a success, Earth lets them know that they plan to send over another wave of colonists.\\
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** The episode "Terra Nova" "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E06TerraNova}} Terra Nova]]" reveals one that happened decades ago (from our heroes' perspective). To wit: Earth discovers an M-class planet about nine light-years away and sends a ship over to begin colonizing it. This leads to the foundation of the Terra Nova colony, with a population of roughly 200. Since this seems to be a success, Earth lets them know that they plan to send over another wave of colonists.\\
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** "A Night In Sickbay": Trained diplomat Archer is negotiating with a race who are so prudish they have in past stormed off the ship after discovering humans eat in public, to access a component that is crucial to the continued functioning of the warp drive. As part of this, he goes to visit a stand of sacred trees.\\
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** "A "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E05ANightInSickbay}} A Night In Sickbay": Sickbay]]": Trained diplomat Archer is negotiating with a race who are so prudish they have in past stormed off the ship after discovering humans eat in public, to access a component that is crucial to the continued functioning of the warp drive. As part of this, he goes to visit a stand of sacred trees.\\
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** In "Demons", our heroes learn that an AbsoluteXenophobe movement called "Terra Prime" used genetic material from Trip and T'Pol to create a HalfHumanHybrid and are holding her at their mining colony on the moon so they can use her as a symbol of how interspecies relations will bring about the end of humanity. Despite the unnatural circumstances of her creation, Trip and T'Pol still consider her their daughter and want her rescued. Naturally, Archer agrees.\\
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** In "Demons", "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E20Demons Demons]]", our heroes learn that an AbsoluteXenophobe movement called "Terra Prime" used genetic material from Trip and T'Pol to create a HalfHumanHybrid and are holding her at their mining colony on the moon so they can use her as a symbol of how interspecies relations will bring about the end of humanity. Despite the unnatural circumstances of her creation, Trip and T'Pol still consider her their daughter and want her rescued. Naturally, Archer agrees.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Sisko to warn the Bajoran fighters to hold fire in order to avoid accidentally destroying the ship -- one of the occupants of which is the son of the Skrrean leader, no less -- which would doubtless turn the already strained relationship between the Bajorans and Skrreans into a major diplomatic incident.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' Sisko to warn the Bajoran fighters to hold fire in order to avoid accidentally destroying the ship -- one of the occupants of which is the son of the Skrrean leader, no less -- which would doubtless turn the already strained relationship between the Bajorans and Skrreans into a major diplomatic incident. Worst case, they can just let the teenagers land on Bajor, where they'll likely end up captured in about five minutes by Bajoran security forces.\\
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** In "The Deadly Years", Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and Scotty are stricken by radiation-induced aging that also kills a female RedShirt. Kirk's failing mental faculties lead to him being relieved of command by the visiting Commodore Stocker, thus leaving him as the highest-ranking officer on the ''Enterprise''. However, despite his rank, he has never commanded a starship.\\
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
** In the final episode, "Turnabout Intruder", insane Janice Lester switches bodies with Captain Kirk so she can stop being a woman and become a Starfleet Commander.\\
** In the final episode, "Turnabout Intruder", insane Janice Lester switches bodies with Captain Kirk so she can stop being a woman and become a Starfleet Commander.\\
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
**In the final episode, "Turnabout Intruder", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder}} Turnabout Intruder]]", insane Janice Lester switches bodies with Captain Kirk so she can stop being a woman and become a Starfleet Commander.\\
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** From "The Alternative Factor", two of the Enterprise's dilithium crystals have been stolen, and Kirk immediately suspects Lazarus, who, earlier that day, begged Kirk to give them to him so he could kill his enemy. Also, Kirk and Spock have been growing increasingly suspicious of Lazarus' true intentions.\\
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** Later on in that episode, Kirk is accidentally transported to an antimatter universe, where he meets a parallel version of Lazarus who, unlike his prime universe counterpart, is completely sane. Anti-Lazarus confirms what Kirk and Spock have feared; that if he and Lazarus come into contact, it would set off a chain reaction that would destroy both universes.\\
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** Later on in that episode, Kirk is accidentally transported to an antimatter universe, where he meets a parallel version of Lazarus who, unlike his prime universe counterpart, is completely sane. Anti-Lazarus confirms what Kirk and Spock have feared; that if he and Lazarus come into contact, it would set off a chain reaction that would destroy both universes.\\
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** Again in the same episode, assuming the idea of trapping both Lazarus in the corridor is the best course of action.\\
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** Again in the same episode, assuming Assuming the idea of trapping both Lazarus in the corridor is the best course of action.\\
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** In "The Enterprise Incident", the Romulan commander has three ships surrounding the ''Enterprise'' and is busy trying to seduce Spock into defecting. Unbeknownst to her, Spock is using this to buy time for Kirk to beam aboard disguised as a Romulan and steal the cloaking device. By the time the commander realizes that Spock is playing her, the cloaking device is gone.\\
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** In "And the Children Shall Lead", Gorgan, the MonsterOfTheWeek has brainwashed a bunch of children to do his bidding, which includes getting the crew to divert the ship to a heavily-populated colony and causing hallucinations so that they don't alter course. Eventually, Kirk and Spock, who still haven't been affected by the hallucinations, come up to the bridge to see what's happening.\\
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* In the original PilotEpisode "The Cage", Captain Pike is startled by the appearance of the female yeoman assigned to him delivering him a report on the bridge, then trying to explain the reasons to his also-female first officer.\\
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* In the original PilotEpisode "The Cage", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage}} The Cage]]", Captain Pike is startled by the appearance of the female yeoman assigned to him delivering him a report on the bridge, then trying to explain the reasons to his also-female first officer.\\
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** In "Datalore", the Enterprise happens to find Lore, an identical twin robot of Data. At one point, when Data and Lore are alone, Lore reveals himself to be an EvilTwin by incapacitating Data, then claims that ''he'' is Data and that Lore attacked him, and he disabled Lore in response.\\
** In "Datalore", the Enterprise happens to find Lore, an identical twin robot of Data. At one point, when Data and Lore are alone, Lore reveals himself to be an EvilTwin by incapacitating Data, then claims that ''he'' is Data and that Lore attacked him, and he disabled Lore in response.\\
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
**In "Datalore", "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E12Datalore}} Datalore]]", the Enterprise happens to find Lore, an identical twin robot of Data. At one point, when Data and Lore are alone, Lore reveals himself to be an EvilTwin by incapacitating Data, then claims that ''he'' is Data and that Lore attacked him, and he disabled Lore in response.\\
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** In "Heart of Glory", the ''Enterprise'' rescues a group of Klingons from an exploding freighter, which they claim to have been attacked by a Ferengi ship which they managed to destroy in a CrazyEnoughToWork gambit. Worf, however, points out that he analysed the weapons signatures on the freighter before it exploded, and that they were those of Klingon disruptors. The leader of the group, Korris, tries to claim that the Ferengi ship was armed with Klingon weaponry.\\
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** In "The Price", TheFederation and several others are engaged in a bidding war over what appears to be [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the only known stable wormhole]] in the galaxy. Picard, however, is not fully convinced, and sends a science team through the wormhole to verify its stability so that they won't end up with a proverbial lemon.\\
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** In "The Perfect Mate", the ''Enterprise'' is transporting an ambassador to a peace conference. Said ambassador has brought along a gift for the other side's chancellor as a peace offering, which he describes as "quite fragile and quite irreplaceable."\\
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** In "Unification, Pt. 2", Sela has captured Picard, Spock, and Data and told them all about the Romulan plot to conquer Vulcan, and is trying to get Spock's cooperation since their holographic imitation of him would be a poor substitute. Naturally, he refuses.\\
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** In "Phantasms", Data starts having weird and disturbing dreams, including one involving Counselor Troi in a situation right out of the music video for Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More." He goes to see her about the dreams.\\
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** In "The Next Phase", Geordi has discovered that, while intangible, he leaves detectable particles when he interacts with solid objects, and Data is now trying to "decontaminate" all the things he's touched or walked through. He starts shoving his arm through things in front of Data to get Data's attention, but Data doesn't get it.\\
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** In "Skin Of Evil," the villain of the week, Armus, is the byproduct of a species of "dazzling, perfect beings" cleansing them of all things "evil." Once shed of him, they dump him on a remote planet, leaving him forever in isolation.\\
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "Move Along Home", the station plays host to the Wadi, a species seemingly obsessed with games. The day after the FirstContact party, Jake tells Odo that his father disappeared. Odo checks and, sure enough, Sisko, Kira, Dax, and Bashir are nowhere to be found. (They're currently trapped in the Wadi game "Chula.") Odo heads straight for Ops, where the Starfleet security officer, Lieutenant Primmin, is the only senior officer present.\\
** In "Move Along Home", the station plays host to the Wadi, a species seemingly obsessed with games. The day after the FirstContact party, Jake tells Odo that his father disappeared. Odo checks and, sure enough, Sisko, Kira, Dax, and Bashir are nowhere to be found. (They're currently trapped in the Wadi game "Chula.") Odo heads straight for Ops, where the Starfleet security officer, Lieutenant Primmin, is the only senior officer present.\\
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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
**In "Move "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E10MoveAlongHome}} Move Along Home", Home]]", the station plays host to the Wadi, a species seemingly obsessed with games. The day after the FirstContact party, Jake tells Odo that his father disappeared. Odo checks and, sure enough, Sisko, Kira, Dax, and Bashir are nowhere to be found. (They're currently trapped in the Wadi game "Chula.") Odo heads straight for Ops, where the Starfleet security officer, Lieutenant Primmin, is the only senior officer present.\\
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** In "Sanctuary," after the Bajorans refuse the latest visitors from the Gamma Quadrant, the Skrreans, permission to settle on Bajor, several teenage Skrreans steal a damaged ship and try to fly it to Bajor. O'Brien warns Sisko that the ship's engines are leaking radiation, and any phaser fire could ignite it. Two Bajoran fighter craft then show up to intercept it.\\
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** In the two-parter "In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light", Garak and Worf are captured in a runabout and taken to an asteroid prison.\\
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** In the episode "Valiant", Jake and Nog are rescued by the titular starship, which is under the command of the elite cadet group Red Squad (the officers supervising them had been killed in a skirmish shortly after the war began). According to the recently-promoted Captain Watters, their mission is to gather intel on a new Dominion battleship. With Nog's engineering help, they manage to sneak up on the battleship and covertly scan it, gathering a boatload of intel--including a possible weakness.\\
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** In "Sanctuary," after the Bajorans refuse the latest visitors from the Gamma Quadrant, the Skrreans, permission to settle on Bajor, several teenage Skrreans steal a damaged ship and try to fly it to Bajor. O'Brien warns Sisko that the ship's engines are leaking radiation, and any phaser fire could ignite it. Two Bajoran fighter craft then show up to intercept it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Sisko to warn the Bajoran fighters to hold fire in order to avoid accidentally destroying the ship -- one of the occupants of which is the son of the Skrrean leader, no less -- which would doubtless turn the already strained relationship between the Bajorans and Skrreans into a major diplomatic incident.\\
'''Instead:''' He contacts the fighters, but doesn't warn them of the ship's damaged engine. Instead, he fruitlessly tries to persuade their pilots to break off pursuit, then contacts the Bajoran general in command of the fighters and tries to get him to call them off, but doesn't warn him about the leak either. It's not until the Skrrean ship fires upon the Bajoran fighters that Sisko even thinks to warn the Bajorans, but the information doesn't get passed on quickly enough, resulting in one of the fighters accidentally destroying the ship with a warning shot. The Skrreans subsequently leave the system, now very firmly wanting nothing to do with the Bajorans.
'''You'd Expect:''' Sisko to warn the Bajoran fighters to hold fire in order to avoid accidentally destroying the ship -- one of the occupants of which is the son of the Skrrean leader, no less -- which would doubtless turn the already strained relationship between the Bajorans and Skrreans into a major diplomatic incident.\\
'''Instead:''' He contacts the fighters, but doesn't warn them of the ship's damaged engine. Instead, he fruitlessly tries to persuade their pilots to break off pursuit, then contacts the Bajoran general in command of the fighters and tries to get him to call them off, but doesn't warn him about the leak either. It's not until the Skrrean ship fires upon the Bajoran fighters that Sisko even thinks to warn the Bajorans, but the information doesn't get passed on quickly enough, resulting in one of the fighters accidentally destroying the ship with a warning shot. The Skrreans subsequently leave the system, now very firmly wanting nothing to do with the Bajorans.
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** Kathryn Janeway, now an admiral, contacts Jean-Luc Picard with a "purely diplomatic assignment" to Romulus to meet with Shinzon.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jean-Luc Picard to remember that, while Janeway may outrank him, he is the superior tactician and diplomat between them. Picard has more experience dealing with Romulans than she does, and he has enough clout within the Federation to get a fleet of ships behind him in case this Shinzon guy had something more sinister planned.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the assignment as it's been given and sends the Enterprise alone into Romulan space. With no plans, and no backup. It was only because of blind luck and bad writing that this didn't end with Picard dead, his crew turned to ash, his ship destroyed, and Shinzon free to deploy his new superweapon on the rest of the quadrant.
'''You'd Expect:''' Jean-Luc Picard to remember that, while Janeway may outrank him, he is the superior tactician and diplomat between them. Picard has more experience dealing with Romulans than she does, and he has enough clout within the Federation to get a fleet of ships behind him in case this Shinzon guy had something more sinister planned.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the assignment as it's been given and sends the Enterprise alone into Romulan space. With no plans, and no backup. It was only because of blind luck and bad writing that this didn't end with Picard dead, his crew turned to ash, his ship destroyed, and Shinzon free to deploy his new superweapon on the rest of the quadrant.
** So things with Shinzon have gone irreparably pear-shaped, forcing the Enterprise to fall back to Federation space. They call ahead to have a fleet of ships rendezvous with them to engage Shinzon's ''Scimitar.''\\
'''You'd Expect:''' the Enterprise crew would plot their course carefully, and avoid anything that could interfere with their ability to contact the fleet for help should they get ambushed by Romulans--or worse, ''Shinzon''-- on the way.\\
'''Instead:''' They sail headlong into a dense nebula, which scrambles astrometric scans and long-range communica-...''[[OhCrap "Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!"]]'' \\
'''Furthermore:''' You'd expect Starfleet to notice the Enterprise should have come out of that nebula by now, put two and two together, and send some backup. \\
'''Instead:''' Starfleet doesn't do a damn thing.
'''You'd Expect:''' the Enterprise crew would plot their course carefully, and avoid anything that could interfere with their ability to contact the fleet for help should they get ambushed by Romulans--or worse, ''Shinzon''-- on the way.\\
'''Instead:''' They sail headlong into a dense nebula, which scrambles astrometric scans and long-range communica-...''[[OhCrap "Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!"]]'' \\
'''Furthermore:''' You'd expect Starfleet to notice the Enterprise should have come out of that nebula by now, put two and two together, and send some backup. \\
'''Instead:''' Starfleet doesn't do a damn thing.
** With the ''Enterprise'' having sustained heavy damage and used up its entire complement of weapons without so much as scratching the ''Scimitar'', Picard restorts to ordering the ship to ram the ''Scimitar''. Because of the distance involved, however, it takes a little while for the ship to close the distance.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Shinzon to either order his helmsman to reverse away from the ''Enterprise'' at full speed, use the ship's tractor beam to deflect the ''Enterprise'', or open fire with all weapons to obliterate the ''Enterprise'', since Picard is clearly willing to stop Shinzon regardless of the cost to himself and his crew.\\
'''Instead''': He just sits there, dumbfounded for several seconds, then only when the ''Enterprise'' is on the verge of collision does he make an order... which is to turn hard to port, which naturally does nothing to stop the impending impact. While the ''Enterprise'' is left completely disabled and helpless, the ''Scimitar'' loses its cloak and most of its weapons, meaning that even if they do use their Thaleron weapon to kill everyone on the ''Enterprise'', it'll now be much harder to attack Earth.
'''You'd Expect''': Shinzon to either order his helmsman to reverse away from the ''Enterprise'' at full speed, use the ship's tractor beam to deflect the ''Enterprise'', or open fire with all weapons to obliterate the ''Enterprise'', since Picard is clearly willing to stop Shinzon regardless of the cost to himself and his crew.\\
'''Instead''': He just sits there, dumbfounded for several seconds, then only when the ''Enterprise'' is on the verge of collision does he make an order... which is to turn hard to port, which naturally does nothing to stop the impending impact. While the ''Enterprise'' is left completely disabled and helpless, the ''Scimitar'' loses its cloak and most of its weapons, meaning that even if they do use their Thaleron weapon to kill everyone on the ''Enterprise'', it'll now be much harder to attack Earth.
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'''You'd Expect:''' The good guys to beam over a bomb, use the independent transporters in the shuttles, have Data/a security team with a tech on it take a shuttle and hack their way in, or replicate the emergency transporter.\\
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'''You'd Expect:''' The good guys to beam over a bomb, use the independent transporters in the shuttles, have Data/a security team with a tech on it take a shuttle (or the Reman fighter that they captured intact earlier in the film) and hack their way in, or replicate the emergency transporter.\\
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** So things with Shinzon have gone irreparably pear-shaped, forcing the Enterprise to fall back to Federation space. They call ahead to have a fleet of ships rendezvous with them to engage Shinzon's ''Scimitar.''\\
'''You'd Expect:''' the Enterprise crew would plot their course carefully, and avoid anything that could interfere with their ability to contact the fleet for help should they get ambushed by Romulans--or worse, ''Shinzon''-- on the way.\\
'''Instead:''' They sail headlong into a dense nebula, which scrambles astrometric scans and long-range communica-...''[[OhCrap "Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!"]]'' \\
'''Furthermore:''' You'd expect Starfleet to notice the Enterprise should have come out of that nebula by now, put two and two together, and send some backup. \\
'''Instead:''' Starfleet doesn't do a damn thing.
** Also from the start of the film, Kathryn Janeway, now an admiral, contacts Jean-Luc Picard with a "purely diplomatic assignment" to Romulus to meet with Shinzon.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jean-Luc Picard to remember that, while Janeway may outrank him, he is the superior tactician and diplomat between them. Picard has more experience dealing with Romulans than she does, and he has enough clout within the Federation to get a fleet of ships behind him in case this Shinzon guy had something more sinister planned.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the assignment as it's been given and sends the Enterprise alone into Romulan space. With no plans, and no backup. It was only because of blind luck and bad writing that this didn't end with Picard dead, his crew turned to ash, his ship destroyed, and Shinzon free to deploy his new superweapon on the rest of the quadrant.
'''You'd Expect:''' the Enterprise crew would plot their course carefully, and avoid anything that could interfere with their ability to contact the fleet for help should they get ambushed by Romulans--or worse, ''Shinzon''-- on the way.\\
'''Instead:''' They sail headlong into a dense nebula, which scrambles astrometric scans and long-range communica-...''[[OhCrap "Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!"]]'' \\
'''Furthermore:''' You'd expect Starfleet to notice the Enterprise should have come out of that nebula by now, put two and two together, and send some backup. \\
'''Instead:''' Starfleet doesn't do a damn thing.
** Also from the start of the film, Kathryn Janeway, now an admiral, contacts Jean-Luc Picard with a "purely diplomatic assignment" to Romulus to meet with Shinzon.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jean-Luc Picard to remember that, while Janeway may outrank him, he is the superior tactician and diplomat between them. Picard has more experience dealing with Romulans than she does, and he has enough clout within the Federation to get a fleet of ships behind him in case this Shinzon guy had something more sinister planned.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the assignment as it's been given and sends the Enterprise alone into Romulan space. With no plans, and no backup. It was only because of blind luck and bad writing that this didn't end with Picard dead, his crew turned to ash, his ship destroyed, and Shinzon free to deploy his new superweapon on the rest of the quadrant.
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'''You'd Expect:''' the Enterprise crew would plot their course carefully, and avoid anything that could interfere with their ability to contact the fleet for help should they get ambushed by Romulans--or worse, ''Shinzon''-- on the way.\\
'''Instead:''' They sail headlong into a dense nebula, which scrambles astrometric scans and long-range communica-...''[[OhCrap "Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers!"]]'' \\
'''Furthermore:''' You'd expect Starfleet to notice the Enterprise should have come out of that nebula by now, put two and two together, and send some backup. \\
'''Instead:''' Starfleet doesn't do a damn thing.
** Also from the start of the film, Kathryn Janeway, now an admiral, contacts Jean-Luc Picard with a "purely diplomatic assignment" to Romulus to meet with Shinzon.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Jean-Luc Picard to remember that, while Janeway may outrank him, he is the superior tactician and diplomat between them. Picard has more experience dealing with Romulans than she does, and he has enough clout within the Federation to get a fleet of ships behind him in case this Shinzon guy had something more sinister planned.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes the assignment as it's been given and sends the Enterprise alone into Romulan space. With no plans, and no backup. It was only because of blind luck and bad writing that this didn't end with Picard dead, his crew turned to ash, his ship destroyed, and Shinzon free to deploy his new superweapon on the rest of the quadrant.
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'''Instead''': Earth doesn't bother investigating until ''Enterprise'' just happens to be passing by and goes to check it out, thus belatedly learning that the colony was destroyed by the fallout of a meteorite, with the adult colonists dead and their children grown up with hatred for Earth and ignorance of their heritage.
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'''Instead''': Earth doesn't bother investigating until ''Enterprise'' just happens to be passing by and goes to check it out, thus belatedly learning that the colony was destroyed by the fallout of a meteorite, with the adult colonists dead and their children grown up with hatred for Earth and ignorance of their heritage.\\
'''And On That Note, You'd Expect''': That if Earth set up a colony on another world, they'd also set up a system to detect and intercept incoming meteors and other threats.\\
'''Instead''': They don't. So much for Terra Nova.
'''And On That Note, You'd Expect''': That if Earth set up a colony on another world, they'd also set up a system to detect and intercept incoming meteors and other threats.\\
'''Instead''': They don't. So much for Terra Nova.
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** Again in the same episode, assuming the idea of trapping both Lazarus in the corridor is the best course of action.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Kirk, Spock, and the two security guards present to stun insane Lazarus with a phaser or at least work together to overpower him and then get to a safe distance and have the Enterprise destroy the ship as soon as possible to prevent the possibility he gets by his counterpart.\\
'''Instead''': Kirk struggles with the madman alone, tells the others to stay back and not help, pushes him into the corridor, beams up to the ship, goes from the transporter room to the bridge, AND THEN orders them to fire on the ship.
'''You'd Expect''': Kirk, Spock, and the two security guards present to stun insane Lazarus with a phaser or at least work together to overpower him and then get to a safe distance and have the Enterprise destroy the ship as soon as possible to prevent the possibility he gets by his counterpart.\\
'''Instead''': Kirk struggles with the madman alone, tells the others to stay back and not help, pushes him into the corridor, beams up to the ship, goes from the transporter room to the bridge, AND THEN orders them to fire on the ship.
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'''You'd Expect''': These "perfect beings" would have both the goods morals and the good sense to warn others in the galaxy to steer clear of that planet, as a being like Armus would obviously be extremely dangerous. Or better still, euthanize this creature of absolute evil so no one need blunder upon him and be at his mercy.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': These "perfect beings" would have both the goods morals and the good sense to warn others in the galaxy to steer clear of that planet, as a being like Armus would obviously be extremely dangerous. Or better still, euthanize this creature of absolute evil "absolute evil" so no one need blunder upon him and be at his mercy.\\
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** In "Skin Of Evil," the villain of the week, Armus, is the byproduct of a species of "dazzling, perfect beings" cleansing them of all things "evil." Once shed of him, they dump him on a remote planet, leaving him forever in isolation.\\
'''You'd Expect''': These "perfect beings" would have both the goods morals and the good sense to warn others in the galaxy to steer clear of that planet, as a being like Armus would obviously be extremely dangerous. Or better still, euthanize this creature of absolute evil so no one need blunder upon him and be at his mercy.\\
'''Instead''': They apparently couldn't be bothered to do either, resulting in the senseless death of Tasha Yar at Armus's hands.
'''You'd Expect''': These "perfect beings" would have both the goods morals and the good sense to warn others in the galaxy to steer clear of that planet, as a being like Armus would obviously be extremely dangerous. Or better still, euthanize this creature of absolute evil so no one need blunder upon him and be at his mercy.\\
'''Instead''': They apparently couldn't be bothered to do either, resulting in the senseless death of Tasha Yar at Armus's hands.
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'''You'd Expect''': The Novan colonists would be cool with this. For one thing, there aren't that many M-class planets this close to Earth to colonize, and this particular one has plenty of real estate. For another thing, one colony of 200 isn't enough to establish a lasting civilization.\\
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'''You'd Expect''': The Novan colonists would be cool with this. For one thing, there aren't that many M-class planets this close to Earth to colonize, and this particular one has plenty of real estate. For another thing, despite what every AdamAndEvePlot may suggest, one colony of 200 isn't enough to establish a lasting civilization.\\
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'''Instead''': Earth and Terra Nova do nothing more than send angry messages back-and-forth--until communications with the colony sudden;y stop.\\
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'''Instead''': Earth and Terra Nova do nothing more than send angry messages back-and-forth--until communications with the colony sudden;y suddenly stop.\\
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** The episode "Terra Nova" reveals one that happened decades ago (from our heroes' perspective). To wit: Earth discovers an M-class planet about nine light-years away and sends a ship over to begin colonizing it. This leads to the foundation of the Terra Nova colony, with a population of roughly 200. Since this seems to be a success, Earth lets them know that they plan to send over another wave of colonists.\\
'''You'd Expect''': The Novan colonists would be cool with this. For one thing, there aren't that many M-class planets this close to Earth to colonize, and this particular one has plenty of real estate. For another thing, one colony of 200 isn't enough to establish a lasting civilization.\\
'''Instead''': The colonists tell Earth to bugger off, apparently deciding that they're entitled to the entire planet, just because. One hot-headed figure, a Mr. Logan, even threatens to fire on any Earth ships that approach the planet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Earth to call BS on this and send over another ship while making it clear that they won't tolerate Logan's behavior and will deal with him if he tries to act on his threat.\\
'''Instead''': Earth and Terra Nova do nothing more than send angry messages back-and-forth--until communications with the colony sudden;y stop.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': Earth to send over a ship to see what happened. Or ask the Vulcans for help--humans may not like asking favors from the Vulcans, but with 200 lives potentially at stake, surely they can swallow their pride.\\
'''Instead''': Earth doesn't bother investigating until ''Enterprise'' just happens to be passing by and goes to check it out, thus belatedly learning that the colony was destroyed by the fallout of a meteorite, with the adult colonists dead and their children grown up with hatred for Earth and ignorance of their heritage.
'''You'd Expect''': The Novan colonists would be cool with this. For one thing, there aren't that many M-class planets this close to Earth to colonize, and this particular one has plenty of real estate. For another thing, one colony of 200 isn't enough to establish a lasting civilization.\\
'''Instead''': The colonists tell Earth to bugger off, apparently deciding that they're entitled to the entire planet, just because. One hot-headed figure, a Mr. Logan, even threatens to fire on any Earth ships that approach the planet.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Earth to call BS on this and send over another ship while making it clear that they won't tolerate Logan's behavior and will deal with him if he tries to act on his threat.\\
'''Instead''': Earth and Terra Nova do nothing more than send angry messages back-and-forth--until communications with the colony sudden;y stop.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': Earth to send over a ship to see what happened. Or ask the Vulcans for help--humans may not like asking favors from the Vulcans, but with 200 lives potentially at stake, surely they can swallow their pride.\\
'''Instead''': Earth doesn't bother investigating until ''Enterprise'' just happens to be passing by and goes to check it out, thus belatedly learning that the colony was destroyed by the fallout of a meteorite, with the adult colonists dead and their children grown up with hatred for Earth and ignorance of their heritage.
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* In original PilotEpisode "TheCage", in which Captain Pike is startled by the appearance of the female yeoman assigned to him delivering him a report on the bridge, then trying to explain the reasons to his also-female first officer.\\
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* In the original PilotEpisode "TheCage", in which "The Cage", Captain Pike is startled by the appearance of the female yeoman assigned to him delivering him a report on the bridge, then trying to explain the reasons to his also-female first officer.\\
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'''The Result''': Kirk is forced to be beamed back onto the Enterprise, unintentionally taking 2 Teenaxi with him.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': That before flying to their next destination, the Enterprise crew to at least beam the 2 Teenaxi back onto Teenax (the Teenaxi's home planet) before leaving.\\
'''Instead''': They never think of this, and fly to their next destination ''without'' beaming the 2 back onto their planet where they belong.
'''You'd Then Expect''': That before flying to their next destination, the Enterprise crew to at least beam the 2 Teenaxi back onto Teenax (the Teenaxi's home planet) before leaving.\\
'''Instead''': They never think of this, and fly to their next destination ''without'' beaming the 2 back onto their planet where they belong.
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'''The Result''': Kirk is forced to be beamed back onto the Enterprise, unintentionally taking 2 two Teenaxi with him.\\
'''You'd Then Expect''': That before flying to their next destination, theEnterprise ''Enterprise'' crew to at least beam the 2 two Teenaxi back onto Teenax (the Teenaxi's home planet) before leaving.\\
'''Instead''': They never think of this, and fly to their next destination ''without'' beaming the2 two back onto their planet where they belong.belong. This is treated as a gag at the end of the film.
'''You'd Then Expect''': That before flying to their next destination, the
'''Instead''': They never think of this, and fly to their next destination ''without'' beaming the
