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π€ So like, what would stop some diplomat from just bringing a suitcase nuke with them when getting beamed on board, and setting it off?
The transporter detects and disables weapons mid beam. In at least one episode, they held a diplomat in the buffer to ask what to do about their weapon.
How the fuck is that even possible even by technobabble standards?
How would they differentiate a weapon from life-saving medical equipment, and why wouldn't some evil villain capitalize on that fact?
Or just make the crew beam down on some planet for some meeting and nuke the meeting place?
Or just pack a ship full of antimatter and ram it into the Enterprise?
The whole way war is done in Star Trek is so fucking stupid π€¦
See, that's a logical and reasonable explanation and LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ought to take lessons from you.
Ehh. I'm still not quite sold on that point, but I accept your explanations for the others.
ββ Yeah, I figured they would react like that even with positive acknowledgement of anything logical they had to say, because surprise-surprise, they weren't actually speaking in good faith, they were just angry someone pointed out plot holes in some dumb TV show that their own friend even acknowledged is just fiction and doesn't matter.
You all are highly highly oversensitive and you need to grow up. If it's just fiction don't throw temper tantrums when people point out plot holes because you can't tolerate any sort of criticism toward a TV show of all things.
Even crazier, they can filter out disease in the transporter. That's how they don't bring plagues back onto the ship after going on away missions.
How do they tell what's a natural microbiome vs. crazy alien bacteria? Who knows, it's a fantasy space show. Just sit back and relax.
That's just a weak-ass cop-out and you and I know it.
Why even have plots if they have magic machines that can make any problem go away with arbitrary explanations of how they work that are neither consistent or logical within the rules of its universe?
It's stupid. And I can bet you're just going to respond "Well, I like it anyway so I don't care" in which case why even bother responding?