Coincidentally, I’ve been rewatching Doctor Who and yesterday I watched the 2nd episode of the revival where they go to the end of the world watch party. The manager of the place was in his office and one of the mini saboteur spider robots showed up and pressed one key on his keyboard that opened the safety screen stopping the sun from cooking anyone in the room.
Why does the ship have a retractable safety screen? Why can it be lowered with a single key press from an office computer? If it can be lowered that easily why couldn’t he raise it again just as easily?
It’s Doctor Who, so none of these are remotely relevant questions, but I found this quite funny.
To be fair the safety screen is like sunglasses. Sometimes you need them and sometimes it makes things hard to see. But yeah he should have just hit the button or dived under three desk.
RTD Doctor Who usually operates on cartoon logic. The Doctor is smart and can do clever things sure. But pushing radiation from his body into his shoe and tossing it in the garbage. That’s Bugs Bunny stuff.
He didn’t have the security authorisation, duh.
And now I’m picturing Spot giving out his own security code. Authorization Spot Omega Epsilon 4, execute.
You can’t secure a spaceship against a cat; they can walk through walls.
Recently watched the episode were Barclay is terrified of the transporter while Geordie and O’Brien try to tell him it is the safest form of transportation ever and accidents never occur.
Like dude, every ither week something goes catastrophicly wrong with the transporters and either maims, kills, phase shifts, or de-ages someone. Or it sends you to a parallel universe. Or in Barclay’s case it gives you an infection or traps you in the transporter.
Also has a history of duplicating people entirely or duplicating their body but splitting their personality (passive Kirk and aggressive Kirk in season 1).
We also never saw him dump the most unholy shit ever known to man AND catkind five minutes before Data had guests over
Perhaps because the people who wrote the auto destruct sequence weren’t idiots.
The “improbable” humanoid forms of all species isn’t a mistake though - it’s addressed in the show.
Indeed. In TOS IIRC.
It in TOS I don’t recall it, in TNG there was an inter planetary race to find the McGuffin, which was just a message of how the first humanoids seeded all the planets with carbon life with their DNA so we would all evolve into humanoids.
Picard didn’t allow children on the bridge, you think he allowed cats?
Since when has a cat needed permission to go wherever it wants?
Especially as in PROD Murf was able to fire torpedoes with their ass.
