I've said this before about the Einstein program, but if they have a Hawking program, why don't they make use of it more often?
When the first Away Team beam down to the outpost that has sent out a distress signal, the Team lands, sees the place is littered with corpses, and only then do they draw their phasers. Wouldn't it make more sense to have transported with their phasers already unholstered, given the circumstances?
And speaking of Away Teams, remember all those old jokes about never beam down with a Team if you're not one of the main players? They still hold true here . . .
I wonder, what happened to the Borgs' personal shields? Their technology seems to have retarded, not progressed. Why should they be so vulnerable to phaser fire when they used to be able to simply deflect it?
Is this why they try hiding behind what look to be plastic containers and metal drums? Why doesn't the phaser fire damage these objects?
I see the Unnamed Black Chick once more mans the Helm.
Interestingly, when we see Geordi working at the rear station on the Bridge, not only is he seated, but for the first time that I can recall in the entire series (and we are at the end of Season Six here) one of the zombies is too. Wow!
After the two Borg have beamed aboard and been shot, Picard suggests that "They beamed on board as a diversion to give their ship time to escape". Well, I suppose that if you believe, as their earlier trip through the matrix might lead you to, that if you are within reasonable distance of the rear of the Borg ship as it enters the matrix then you will be pulled into it also, that this may appear to be a reasonable assumption. Consider though, the first time we see the Borg vanish into the matrix just after the phaser fight on the colony. On orders from Picard, the chappie who is working at Worf's station fires two photon torpedoes at the Borg ship. The Borg ship enters the matrix, but although the torpedoes are practically up its exhaust, they don't enter the matrix. Instead, we see them zooming off into space. Picard's logic is therefore not only faulty, it is obviously faulty.
Why do none of the Away Teams, whatever circumstances they know they may be beaming into, wear protective clothing?
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