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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" RIKER: And while he was hiding he ate the fruit of a cove palm. JAKE: It was just a joke. I didn't... RIKER: I assume you are aware of the infectious nature of the parasites which inhabit cove palms? |
Transporters: Jake's brother had already been beamed back to the Enterprise after the incident in question, but the parasites he got from the cove palms were still a threat. This represents yet another failure of the much-heralded "biofilters", and yet another reason to wonder how Starfleet officers can trust those biofilters so implicitly. |
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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" RIKER: Are you familiar with the condition upon which I agreed to allow you two boys to remain on the Enterprise when your parents went on sabbatical? |
Culture: it's bad enough that families of Starfleet officers are housed on board a warship and routinely carted into deadly situations, but now we learn that the ship functions as a day-care for officers who aren't even there! What sort of parents would take a vacation and leave their kids on a ship which might be in the Romulan Neutral Zone or a border skirmish with the Cardassians on any given day of the week? The motivation of the average Starfleet officer is confusing to me. From what I know of real-life soldiers, they are motivated by their desire to protect their friends, families, and homelands (or to pay for their college tuitions). Therefore, having one's family on board a warship strikes me as a mistake of enormous proportions because it dilutes his attention and motivations. When his family is at home, his entire attention can be focused on the task at hand. Anything the soldier does to stop the enemy will help protect his family. But when that family is on board, an immediate conflict of interest arises. Now, his devotion to duty might actually harm his family. What if the ship is under attack? How can an officer concentrate if his wife and children are on board? What if the ship has taken a hit? Won't the thought cross his mind that they might be trapped in some burning, damaged part of the ship, calling out his name? I may not be an expert on military psychology, but I can't imagine that a distraction of that nature would be good in combat. Of course, an exceptionally strong devotion to the state might weaken the importance of this potential conflict of interest, so that's one possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that they're simply idiots. That might help explain why the E-D tended to lose so many vital functions so quickly in combat, because damage control efforts were delayed while officers checked on their loved ones to make sure they were safe :) |
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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" DATA (in Picard's voice): Computer, recognize Picard, Jean-Luc. Alpha Two clearance. COMPUTER: Priority clearance recognition, Alpha Two. ... DATA (in Picard's voice): Isolate all remaining command functions and accept related orders and inquiries from Main Bridge only. ... GEORDI: No matter what we try, the computer will only acknowledge commands from the bridge, sir. WORF: He's blocked every subspace channel, Captain. We can't even call for help. PICARD: Have you tried tracing back navigation inputs? WESLEY: We don't even know what star system we're in, sir. RIKER: The only way we knew we'd come out of warp was by looking out a window. |
Design: the security model of the Enterprise is based entirely on voice recognition. Since Data can mimic Picard's voice patterns accurately enough to fool the computer, this means that Data can seize control of the ship whenever he wants. Therefore, it stands to reason that the Terminator could also do it, as well as Rich Little :) |
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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" GEORDI: Under normal circumstances, we could divert that field energy and use it to cancel the force field protecting the bridge... But we have to retain the medical quarantine. PICARD: Determine the absolute minimum field energy that Doctor Crusher needs... and use the rest to get me onto my bridge. |
Design: the medical quarantine system is entirely based on forcefields, rather than using forcefields as a backup for a physical containment system. The slightest, most temporary loss of function would therefore mean the contamination of the entire ship. That's incomprehensibly stupid. |
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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" SOONG: And what's so important about the past? People needed money, they got sick. Why tie yourself to that? |
Culture: Dr. Soong repeats the incessant Federation propagandistic lie that they have overcome disease and the need for money. People still die of disease in the Federation, and money is a necessary method of quantifying work and resources even in a communist society. Doesn't the word "rubles" sound familiar to anyone? |
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TNG Season 4, Ep# 77: "Brothers" BEVERLY: Willie Potts has twenty-four hours, thirty-six tops. If it goes longer than that, the only thing Starbase Four-One-Six will have left to do is a postmortem. |
Misc: Dr. Crusher has no way of prolonging the life of a boy infected with deadly parasites. This calls the usefulness of stasis fields into question; they must have some weakness we are not aware of. |
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