Thread: The dumbest star trek moment I ever watched.

Deep Space Nine. All in all, for a non-trekkie, it wasn't a bad series.

But whenever you get star trek writers together, stupidity is bound to happen. Although frequent on Star Trek Voyager, Deep Space Nine seemed to have more luck. Usually.

But this doozy had me cussing. And making me cuss over a T.V. show is pretty extreme all on it's own.

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Season two, episode seventeen.

Jadzia Dax and some trill dude snag what seems to be a piece of subspace on the bussard collector of the runabout that they are running about in.

Jadzia decides to transport it to the lab and study it. What she discovered was that it was a "Proto-Universe" that was forming and expanding.
How did they Transport (Beam me up, Scotty) a "proto-universe?" That they move this thing around with the transporter is hilarious enough; we'll ignore that for now.

What's really delicious is that she makes the determination that this 'proto-Universe' will expand until it replaces our own Universe.
Well, that's depressing news.
So, they develop a means to destroy the inconsiderate thing- But not before Dax observes tell tale signs of massive energy consumption and non random energy usage- strongly implying that a very technical intelligent civilization has developed inside of the 'proto-universe'.
Sisko puts the plans to destroy the Universe on hold while trying to figure out their next move- Does he destroy another civilization in order to spare his own civilization? Here, the writers created, wrote in, devised, THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVES, a weird Moral Dilemma for Sisko to face.

What's the end solution? I guess Sisko didn't want to deal with this thing so he tells Dax to "return it where they found it."
What? Like, throw it back and forget you ever saw it? Not my problem? NIMBY? Isn't the thing STILL going to Expand until it replaces our Universe? Isn't this thing STILL going to kill us all? It's never discussed or covered. Dax, "Safely returns it from whence it came" and Magically, the whole problem is forgotten. Later on, when this thing should have expanded and destroyed us all, the characters are still runing around deep space nining. "What 'proto-Universe?' Never heard of it."

I mean, if returning the thing was the simple solution, why the hell didn't they just do that the first time? The implication was that that would not solve the expansion problem.
Until the writers got the end of the script and said, "Aww screw it."
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I recall the day our first color TV was delivered to our home. It was in the summer of 1968, and we were boating and water skiing on our favorite lake when my Dad broke the news. We couldn't wait to get home and see if Spock's skin had a green tint. No such luck, but it made finishing out the original Star Trek series much more enjoyable.

These days I have little interest in the original series. Because I enjoyed TNG so much yet because of school and work missed many of the episodes, I bought the full 7-season DVD set. When Voyager came online I tried to see most episodes, but as my ex hated it, that would be her "girls out night" and she'd meet with friends while I enjoyed about 2/3 of the episodes. By now I've seen about 3/4 of the episodes, but am not enough of a fan to buy the DVD set.

DS9? No way. I've seen many of its episodes, and none seemed to have any of the same flavor as Star Trek should. I find it incredulous that it, too, spent seven years in production.

Star Trek: Enterprise returned the flavor of the original, and I love the fact that its setting was incorporated into the most recent Star Trek film which launched future movies onto the path of exploring an alternate universe beginning with James T. Kirk taking command of the Enterprise.

Yes, I'm a trekkie, although I'm not fanatic about it.

My youngest daughter now a adult and 26., and I as a weekly ritual rented all of TNG ( next generation ) and all of Voyager

but our interest died at the deep space nine base.. She and I had a fondness for this science fiction bent.. and found that some of the scripts were weak.

I remember a string of episodes were a portal opened.. very near.. like some sort of transport to some place else.. and it always bothered me.. as rubbish.

and then in the TNG they had the Q. who out of spite threw us at the Borg... and effectively changed the path of history.. that bothered me.

Over the years, yes they made some stupid errors that given time and knowledge we now wince at., but I still hold it as great stuff.

Resistance is futile.. and it was.