It's TNG + Seth's humor. From what I've seen, it appears that teleporters are not a part of this Trek-ish universe. Wonder why they chose to leave them out. Makes for a lot of shuttle shots. Many episodes of Star Trek I'm left wondering, "why don't they use the transporter?" Makes the away missions much riskier.Yeah, I'm probably saying stuff everyone here knows, but the Transporter was introduced in
TOS to cut down on the effects budget, but ended up opening the biggest
can of worms for storytelling.
Why can't they just beam them up? Why not lock transporters onto the aliens who have taken the bridge hostage, and hold them in the transport-buffers until you can reach space prison? Or beam them into space? Enterprise actually hangs a lampshade on it at one point, telling a rube that the
Transporter is their means of a human execution. So when they "execute" Archer, they actually just beam him to another part of the ship, after which he engages them in guerrilla warfare.
The second biggest "why don't they…" for me is in Next Generation's later seasons, and it's "Why don't they just ask Guinan?" She seems to know just about every unknown they come across, but some stories she's there, most of them, she's not.
The usual answer for me was that Guinan is a Space-Know-It-All, and didn't actually get along with the ship's computer, which frequently locked Guinan in her room as a kind of practical joke.
By the way, while I'm happy about the ENTERPRISE' last season turning out so fantastic, I dislike the theme song more than ever.
It's so ridiculous to have that rhythm-guitar pop after the cold-open scenes, esp. when they transition from season 3's darker themes into Kenny-Loggins-esque. All they had to do was use the ending credits song — and it turns out, that was their damned plan! Look how good this is!
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