When Trek is Moronic
So... in Starfleet universe everyone is super nice and no one ever goes for the head-shot, right? Or is it just part of the list of things designed to make security officers look implausibly dysfunctional and incompetent to the point that my suspension of disbelief goes flying out the window? The list goes something like this:
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1) Except all those episodes where they don't. The weird part is, early TOS and TNG episodes showed them wearing helmets. Sometimes. Or maybe they were playing football?
2) No, but exploding power conduits cause all sorts of shrapnel. I was looking at a bridge full of head wounds just last night, caused by equipment debris. Those were preventable deaths.
3) Except they're often on stun and there's no reason why standard issue body armor couldn't deflect even higher settings because for every perfect bullet, there's always a way to stop it. Not that there's any internal consistency when it comes to phase weapons. TNG showed us that phasers could vaporize things easily while other series insisted they were more limited due to... energy consumption.
4) Weapons don't magically aim themselves; formation and movement still matter.
6) I distinctly recall hearing about depleted power cells while watching DS9. While I suck at tidily reciting episodes and quotes - and will make no effort to do so for the sake of nit-picking - I remember learning that bit of info.
7) It's Starfleet. The default order is "hold your fire".
8) Believe it or not, this has been brought on by DS9 and its extensive war plots. I just accept that TNG was asinine in an attempt to be utopian.
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