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Nov 282010
 

In the seventh-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation titled “Attached”, Picard and Dr. Crusher are being held captive on a planet. During an escape attempt, they are in a series of caverns when Beverly says, “I smell gas” and there is an eruption of flame from the ground a few feet from where they’re standing.

Problem: natural gas has no smell. That rotten-egg smell usually associated with natural gas is added by your local gas company so you will notice a leak. There is no logical reason for her to say “I smell gas”, because she couldn’t have. There might be a possible exception if the gas in question is propane, but that smell might be added as well.

Nov 172010
 

In an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation titled “Disaster”, Dr. Crusher and Geordi are trapped in a cargo bay after the ship collides with a quantum filament. They soon run into a problem: a radiation leak caused by a plasma fire is going to cause a whole bunch of stainless steel drums to explode. Crusher and Geordi have to move these containers away from the plasma fire before evacuating the cargo bay’s oxygen to extinguish the fire.

If you watch the way they’re moving the containers, it’s clear that the reason they’re having trouble is because they’re pressing DOWN on them as they’re trying to slide them.

Sep 012010
 

There is one thing about every Star Trek series and movie ever made that has always bothered us. It has to do with the outdoor lighting in any of the exterior shots of the Enterprise (ANY Enterprise). It isn’t as obvious in the original series, but anything made afterward shows the ship passing by with a light source illuminating the ship’s exterior.

What we want to know is WHERE is the light source, because you never get a clue where the light is coming from, but in deep space with no nearby stars or planets the exterior shots should be black as midnight, maybe blacker.

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