Data could not use contractions. WTF's up with that? A highly advanced android who's stronger, faster, better than humans and he can't even use contractions?
Annoying thing about TNG
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They made a whole episode where Riker realized he was in a fake enviornment based on Data's using a contraction.
Eh...it was just one of those quirks that made him 'Data'. I give Brent Spiner mad props for that...you'd have to consciously never say contractions, when it's something you normally don't even think about.
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lol, yeah, and geez, you think he would be able to store a bunch of known humorous statements/jokes and fake a laugh here or there.
He did, yet still lacked everything else you need to be funny, like timing and delivery. In fact, in one episode, he had a comedian come in and try to teach him how to be funny, and he still couldn't.
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If that is the only thing you find annoying or illogical about TNG, you haven't been paying much attention.
wait a minute... am I the only one that finds it disturbing that you could prolly attach a Mr Coffee to a deflector array on ANY federation ship AND that the deflector, depeding on what mods you put on it, could do ANYTHING.
I'm still stuck on the part where hundreds of different species evolving light years apart somehow managed to all speak English.
That and the gravity-in-outer-space thing....
Yeah, "We've modified the deflector grid to emit chromiton (sp?) particles so we can go back in time, then re-configured it to emit photon particles to cloak the ship, then re-configured it to make a hologram of the ship as a decoy..." That was awesome.
Originally posted by: tcsenter
I'm still stuck on the part where hundreds of different species evolving light years apart somehow managed to all speak English.
That and the gravity-in-outer-space thing....
They must be using the deflector array to generate gravity AND translate everything.
They don't... they have what's called a 'universal translator' embedded in their head... this was explained in a DS9 episode.
Well that's technology. Who's to say we won't discover that in 400 years as well?
Kadarin
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My list of annoying things about Star Trek:
Bathrooms are few and far between.
The Federation appears to be a Marxist police state.
Everybody (civilians included) wears gay-looking jumpsuits, and there is no sense of style.
Pop culture is nonexistent (for entertainment, everyone appears to perform either Shakespeare or classical music).
Space only has two dimensions.
All aliens are people with prosthetic foreheads. Aliens should be alien, with unusual or incomprehensible motivations and thought processes.
The "universal translator".
As a military organization, the Federation is utterly pathetic (in one episode, they sent Picard, Crusher, and Whorf on a special-forces type mission.. WHY?!)
Starfleet uniforms are impractical - no pockets, and colorfully useless for camoflage purposes.
Ground teams use the hand phaser, which is often rendered useless by alien jamming technology. They should use mechanical slug throwers in some cases.
Federation ship to ship weapons systems are horribly underpowered.
The Federation does not appear to understand its own technology (when a shipboard engineer can improvise anything with the main deflector array, up to and including traveling to alternate universes, one wonders why such things aren't known or documented somewhere)
The holodeck, transporter, and replication technology are not used effectively nor apparently fully understood by the Federation, yet their use is ubiquitous.
Bathrooms are few and far between.
The Federation appears to be a Marxist police state.
Everybody (civilians included) wears gay-looking jumpsuits, and there is no sense of style.
Pop culture is nonexistent (for entertainment, everyone appears to perform either Shakespeare or classical music).
Space only has two dimensions.
All aliens are people with prosthetic foreheads. Aliens should be alien, with unusual or incomprehensible motivations and thought processes.
The "universal translator".
As a military organization, the Federation is utterly pathetic (in one episode, they sent Picard, Crusher, and Whorf on a special-forces type mission.. WHY?!)
Starfleet uniforms are impractical - no pockets, and colorfully useless for camoflage purposes.
Ground teams use the hand phaser, which is often rendered useless by alien jamming technology. They should use mechanical slug throwers in some cases.
Federation ship to ship weapons systems are horribly underpowered.
The Federation does not appear to understand its own technology (when a shipboard engineer can improvise anything with the main deflector array, up to and including traveling to alternate universes, one wonders why such things aren't known or documented somewhere)
The holodeck, transporter, and replication technology are not used effectively nor apparently fully understood by the Federation, yet their use is ubiquitous.
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