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But if all that did happen, then I could understand...

Cpl Kendall wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Ya...it's hard for even me to come up with an excuse for it. And that's saying something, cause I can come up with some weird stuff. Not as weird as Deep's rolling phaser emitter idea which wasn't even a necessary explination, but still, I can usually come up with something.

I can only surmise that the entire military records of Earth and it's local allies were destroyed in a horrible fire related accident and all military personel and hobbyists became Terry Schivo at the same time. Of course for this to work, the average Milky Way citizen would have to be lobotomized so they don't realise that "hey I don't get shot if I take cover behind this rock!"

...or piece of toilet paper

That's another oddity of note.

Cpl Kendall wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Ya...it's hard for even me to come up with an excuse for it. And that's saying something, cause I can come up with some weird stuff. Not as weird as Deep's rolling phaser emitter idea which wasn't even a necessary explination, but still, I can usually come up with something.

I can only surmise that the entire military records of Earth and it's local allies were destroyed in a horrible fire related accident and all military personel and hobbyists became Terry Schivo at the same time. Of course for this to work, the average Milky Way citizen would have to be lobotomized so they don't realise that "hey I don't get shot if I take cover behind this rock!"

I think a more reasonable is that weapons are powerful enough that taking cover doesn't work, but even that doesn't work considering the only time we've seen phasers penetrate solid objects like that is when the plot calls for it, like cutting through something or for comedic effect, like when Quark was hiding in a safe, which you would think would stand up to weapons better then the crates not even being burnt or scratched by the same beams.

ENT
Bajor
Kira
The original Ferangi
TOS
Vulcans
Bad science
Clip shows
Re set episodes

Let's see what annoys me in trek, in no particular order

Lack of explination for stuff that leads to idiotic fanboy ideas(see Deepcrush's rolling phaser ideas)
TNG
Q
Deanna Troi
Kendall
Picard
Data
people complaining about Enterprise
Soverign-class ships
Did I mention TNG?

ChakatBlackstar wrote:Let's see what annoys me in trek, in no particular order

Lack of explination for stuff that leads to idiotic fanboy ideas(see Deepcrush's rolling phaser ideas)
TNG
Q
Deanna Troi
Kendall
Picard
Data
people complaining about Enterprise
Soverign-class ships
Did I mention TNG?

What annoys you about Sovs?

Teaos wrote: Kira

You have to admit, though, she can look pretty foxy in that skin-tight suit.

Thankfully, there weren't all too many clip shows. YE aside, there's something unsatisfying about reset-button eps.

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:Let's see what annoys me in trek, in no particular order

Lack of explination for stuff that leads to idiotic fanboy ideas(see Deepcrush's rolling phaser ideas)
TNG
Q
Deanna Troi
Kendall
Picard
Data
people complaining about Enterprise
Soverign-class ships
Did I mention TNG?

What annoys you about Sovs?

IMO it's one butt-ugly ship. It's also armed to the teeth which takes us away from Starfleet's primary purpose.

Oh I also forgot fanboys*glares at Deepcrush*.

ChakatBlackstar wrote:

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:Let's see what annoys me in trek, in no particular order

Lack of explination for stuff that leads to idiotic fanboy ideas(see Deepcrush's rolling phaser ideas)
TNG
Q
Deanna Troi
Kendall
Picard
Data
people complaining about Enterprise
Soverign-class ships
Did I mention TNG?

What annoys you about Sovs?

IMO it's one butt-ugly ship. It's also armed to the teeth which takes us away from Starfleet's primary purpose.

Oh I also forgot fanboys*glares at Deepcrush*.

And your not one, everyone one-off ship seems like your dream uber ship.

I think the Sov is pretty and ship of its times. Starfleet is reacting to a more dangerous time.

KuvahMagh wrote:

ChakatBlackstar wrote:

Captain Picard's Hair wrote:
What annoys you about Sovs?

IMO it's one butt-ugly ship. It's also armed to the teeth which takes us away from Starfleet's primary purpose.

Oh I also forgot fanboys*glares at Deepcrush*.

And your not one, everyone one-off ship seems like your dream uber ship.

That's not true. My dream ship is the Xhosa

ChakatBlackstar wrote:
I think a more reasonable is that weapons are powerful enough that taking cover doesn't work, but even that doesn't work considering the only time we've seen phasers penetrate solid objects like that is when the plot calls for it, like cutting through something or for comedic effect, like when Quark was hiding in a safe, which you would think would stand up to weapons better then the crates not even being burnt or scratched by the same beams.

Even if there weapons were as powerful as all that (and as you say they aren't), it still makes sense to take cover simply to make it harder to hit you.

Given that the humble packing crate seems to be invulnerable to phasers, I think taking cover is just freaking common sense. I've never fired a gun in my life, and despite that I'd still know that cover = life.

Oh I also forgot fanboys*glares at Deepcrush*.

Not fanboy, just fan.

Given that the humble packing crate seems to be invulnerable to phasers, I think taking cover is just freaking common sense. I've never fired a gun in my life, and despite that I'd still know that cover = life.

Even people who don't know that going in get real quick to kiss dirt the first a live round goes off near them.

Indeed. It's a little thing called "survival instincts". It seems to have been bred out of Trek humans.