My favorite is the repair tool from S1 PIC, the one powered by imagination. Lets just create and forget a magic wand that commoditizes the entire engineering department 🙃
I’m going to be honest - the first season of PIC was so bad I tried to forget about pretty much everything but Laris. I am pleased to report that I successfully forgot everything about the imagination repair tool and still no longer recall it.
I’m glad I’ve almost completely forgotten the first two seasons of PIC.
I’m glad they at least tried to make a good 3rd season… but I’d still rather forget it too.
Heck, maybe I should just start considering Picard dead since Wolf 359. … No, no. That’s taking it too far. Just need to ignore the non-canon anti-fan non-trek noise.
That alien transporter with a range of 40,000 light years (the spatial trajector) that just can’t work on Voyager because it has an incompatible power supply
Infinitely fast travel at warp 10 that comes with serious, but entirely curable side-effects
It annoyed me so much that Discovery basically wrote off all the propulsion technologies that didn’t quite work in the 24th century, just so the spore drive could be special in the 32nd century.
I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.
At least Discovery’s could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it’s worth.
“If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold” is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.
If we’re counting Kelvinverse stuff, the plot twist in Star Trek Into Darkness in which magic villain blood turns out to be the universal cure for Actual Death also qualifies.
my favorite example of “we can do this extraordinary thing and we will never talk about it again”:
My favorite is the repair tool from S1 PIC, the one powered by imagination. Lets just create and forget a magic wand that commoditizes the entire engineering department 🙃
I’m going to be honest - the first season of PIC was so bad I tried to forget about pretty much everything but Laris. I am pleased to report that I successfully forgot everything about the imagination repair tool and still no longer recall it.
I hope you didn’t start watching the second season.
I’m glad I’ve almost completely forgotten the first two seasons of PIC.
I’m glad they at least tried to make a good 3rd season… but I’d still rather forget it too.
Heck, maybe I should just start considering Picard dead since Wolf 359. … No, no. That’s taking it too far. Just need to ignore the non-canon anti-fan non-trek noise.
I just can’t respect someone’s opinions on writing when they don’t know it’s not “cannon”.
Ultimate vibe engineering.
Janeway and Paris preferred to stay in the delta quadrant rather than explain their giant Yeerk babies.
It annoyed me so much that Discovery basically wrote off all the propulsion technologies that didn’t quite work in the 24th century, just so the spore drive could be special in the 32nd century.
I have much the same gripes about Voyager making the Warp 10 speed limit a universal hard limit, rather than something that the warp drive was simply not able to achieve.
At least Discovery’s could still pulled them back out of the rug with them not having to wring every single piece of dilithium for all it’s worth.
“If you go just a bit faster than the Voyager, the universe itself breaks, and all propulsion technologies are obsoleted past the threshold” is much harder to get around without something like Q shenanigans.
Isn’t there a plant in TOS that can heal wounds that’s never brought up again?
i only remember this plant, not sure it was healing anything…? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)
If we’re counting Kelvinverse stuff, the plot twist in Star Trek Into Darkness in which magic villain blood turns out to be the universal cure for Actual Death also qualifies.
Oh how I aspire in writing my own Star Trek stories to both not do that, and explain away why it’s like that (basically: “forgot we could do that”).
or the detachable Enterprise saucer section
i think that one was about money, shooting the separation scene turned out to be more complicated and expensive than they thought…