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00:00Much as we absolutely love Star Trek, there is no questioning the fact that some moments leave us
00:04scratching our heads, or shouting to the sky, or in a situation where my mum has said I'm not
00:09allowed to watch it around the house anymore because I get a bit involved. The original
00:14article that this video was based on was written by the wonderful Marcus Fry. I, however, am Sean
00:19Ferrick for Trek Culture, and here are 10 more frustrating Star Trek moments.
00:25Number 10. Voyager skipping past Borg space.
00:27After Voyager was flung into the Delta Quadrant, it was only a matter of time before they ran into
00:31the Borg, whose territory was known to be located directly between them and Earth. Unfortunately
00:36for fans of the show, Voyager's stay in the heart of Borg space was much more brief than
00:40they originally predicted. Kess went Super Saiyan and launched the ship all the way to
00:43the other side of the territory in The Gift, one episode after Voyager first entered it
00:47in Scorpion. Voyager went on to encounter the Borg several more times throughout the series,
00:51but the writers having them skip past the most difficult part of their journey so easily
00:54wastes so much story potential. We could have had a season-long arc of the Voyager struggling
00:59desperately to make it through the home of one of the most terrifying empires in Trek. It would
01:03have been the perfect opportunity to give the show a bit of a darker tone and raise the stakes.
01:07Maybe one of the crew being assimilated. Having Kess launch the ship to safety with their
01:11telepathic powers was a good idea, but it definitely would have been nice to see more than two episodes
01:16inside of Borg territory. Number 9. Kirk's revival in Into Darkness
01:20Star Trek Into Darkness gets a lot of criticism for mostly just being a bit of a rip-off of The
01:24Wrath of Khan, really. Some, however, like to think of it as more of an homage film, especially when it
01:29comes to the ending when Kirk sacrificed himself to save the ship, just like Spock did in the original.
01:34Look, Kirk's death scene was great, but the frustrating part is just how they brought him back.
01:38In The Search for Spock, Spock was resurrected using the Genesis planet and his catcher in a really
01:42creative way that tied into the previous film brilliantly, but in Into Darkness, McCoy basically
01:47just invented an immortality serum using Khan's blood. This method of bringing him back to life
01:51was pretty uninspired and came out of nowhere, but worse than that, it basically meant that people
01:55could be resurrected at any time the plot required, provided they produced more augmented blood in a lab.
02:01It only removed the stakes in a way that Spock's revival didn't, given that Project Genesis ended and
02:06the planet degraded over time. Number 8. The Return of the Ferengi
02:10Some fans were pretty upset with the redesign of the Klingons in Season 1 of Star Trek Discovery.
02:14They were now hairless for some reason, had giant elongated heads, and looked more like
02:18generic reptilian aliens from another TV show. Some of these changes were rolled back a bit
02:23into the second season, like for example, their hair came back and it was explained that Klingon
02:27warriors sometimes shave their heads in times of war. Something that strangely didn't see much of
02:30during the Dominion War, but no, it's neither here nor there. Star Trek Discovery then made another
02:35change that got people up in arms. Season 4 of Discovery gave us a few scenes,
02:40with the Ferengi that looked much closer to Andrew Probert's original design of the Ferengi.
02:45Whereas the Ferengi we were used to seeing on screen had smoother features and skin,
02:50apart from the oldest ones like Zek, these ones had a more spiked ear and were a bit more lined.
02:56Again, the fandom was a little bit up in arms. Some liked it, some hated it, some were like
03:02oh you're changing things for the sake of changing things, others were like yeah but that's in the very
03:05first sketch. Really, it's just one of those watershed moments in Star Trek that, once again,
03:11people get really frustrated about or love, depending on the day of the week.
03:15Number 7. The Alternate Kirk's Promotion
03:17Something odd that you might have noticed about 2009 Star Trek and the other alternate universe
03:22films is that all of the main cast came aboard the Enterprise at way younger ages than their prime
03:26timeline counterparts from the original series. Kirk was particularly quick to move through the ranks,
03:31he went from a cadet to captain of the Federation's flagship all because of his work defeating Nero
03:35and saving the Earth at the end of the 2009 film. Problem is that plenty of other characters in the
03:40film, like Spock and Scotty, helped just as much or more than Kirk but got way less credit. Beyond that,
03:45we've seen characters get promotions for exceptional work but now go straight from a cadet to a captain
03:50which would normally take a decade or two of service. Number 6. Seeing Inside the Q Continuum
03:55Ever since the Enterprise first met Q in the first episode of The Next Generation, fans have been wondering about
03:59the true nature of his species. The Q Continuum, as he called it, was always spoken about vaguely as
04:04some sort of realm where all the Q reside, occasionally leaving to interfere with less
04:08advanced lifeforms. Finally, in the Voyager episode Deathwish, we got to see inside of the
04:13Continuum when the Q, known as Quinn, brought them there to show how miserable life for the Q has gotten.
04:18Unfortunately, their visit was a little bit anticlimactic. According to Q, the Continuum existed in a
04:24dimension so far beyond human comprehension that in order for the crew to visit it, anything was
04:29physically translated into illusions that could be understood by lower lifeforms. What this
04:33basically meant was that, rather than a trippy visual spectacle unlike anything we've ever seen,
04:37the Continuum was presented as an old desert road, and the Q were presented as ordinary humans. Later,
04:42the crew visited the Continuum again in the episode The Q and the Grey, and it was portrayed as a
04:46battlefield in the American Civil War. It makes sense that the domain of the Q would be beyond the
04:50understanding of humans, but the fact that we can't possibly ever know what life is truly like in the
04:55Continuum is a bit of a bummer, really. 5. Riker being confused about gender-neutral
05:00language in the 24th century The Next Generation episode The Outcast was frustrating for a lot of
05:05Shrekies, mostly because it tried to tell a story in support of gay pride for the first time in the
05:09franchise's history, but it totally missed the mark on a lot of stuff and ended up dealing with
05:13gender far more than sexuality. The Enterprise-D was introduced to the Genii, a species with only one
05:18sex, and Riker started to form a relationship with one of them named Sauron, who he found out was
05:23actually identifying as female. The whole episode then focused on her struggle to be accepted as
05:28a woman by her society. There are a number of problems with the Outcast, but there's one scene
05:32that seems particularly short-sighted. While speaking with Riker about her sexless species,
05:36Riker was extremely confused on what pronouns to use for them. When the episode was made,
05:40they, them, theirs was not very popular singular pronouns in America, even though they were popular
05:45for describing someone of unknown gender in the past. So Sauron told Riker that the Genii used a
05:50gender-neutral pronoun that had no equivalent in English. Watching this scene back today is
05:54particularly frustrating for non-binary folks. Fortunately, Discovery seemed to retcon this by
05:58giving us our first non-binary human character, Adira Tal, who used they, them, theirs, showing
06:04that there's not just aliens who can exist outside of male and female expectations.
06:084. Icheb's Death A lot of old Trekkies can criticise New Trek for being too dark and depressing,
06:13specifically Discovery or Picard. Some take this too far and decide to write these shows off entirely,
06:18which is a bit of an overreaction, but there are times when even the biggest supporters of the new
06:22Trek era have to see where the haters are coming from. Specifically, Icheb's death scene from Star
06:27Trek Picard was one of those brutal and abrupt deaths of a major character in Trek history.
06:32Icheb was the only one of the Borg children recovered by Voyager who came back to Earth with
06:36the rest of the crew. He was an extremely intelligent young man with a passion for helping
06:40others and a bright future ahead of him. Then, after decades of wondering what happened to him after
06:44reaching the Alpha Quadrant, we were given a scene of him screaming in agony as someone ripped out his
06:49eyeball to harvest his Borg implants for sale. To make this even more awful, Seven of Nine discovered
06:53him and decided to end his suffering. The scene was meant to show how Seven had changed into an
06:57emotionally broken vigilante, but Icheb's death just came as such a surprise. It was definitely
07:02a good way to give Seven more of an edge, but it would have been nice to have had some build-up to
07:05the death scene. It just feels like the writers threw away his character for Seven's sake.
07:09Number 3 Michael Burnham's Mutiny Michael Burnham was given a pretty bad introduction
07:13in the first episode of Discovery, The Vulcan Hello. The episode ended with a assaulting
07:16Captain Georgiou with a Vulcan nerve pinch to fire preemptively on the Klingons against her wishes.
07:21This act of mutiny is what initially gave Burnham such an awful reputation with the rest of Starfleet,
07:26as well as the fans. She argued that the Klingons would respect the Federation if the Shenzhou beat
07:30them to the first punch, but this idea went against everything that the Federation is supposed to stand for,
07:34and it possibly would have just made the Klingons angrier. Later, she nearly redeemed herself by
07:39travelling to the lead Klingon ship to catch her Takuvma. Unfortunately, that didn't work,
07:43as Takuvma ended up killed after killing Georgiou in a brutal assault. While the Klingon Empire was
07:49always going to go to war anyway, lots of people took this to be Burnham's fault, and that gave
07:56her such a bad reputation with the rest of Starfleet that her name was Mud by the time she was discovered
08:02by Captain Lorca and the USS Discovery. Number 2 Scotty forgetting about Kirk's death.
08:07Fans were pleasantly surprised to see the return of Scotty from the original series in the Next
08:11Generation episode Relics. After a ship was damaged, he saved himself by sending his body
08:14through the transporter, but didn't direct it to anywhere, so he was stuck unconscious in the
08:18pattern buffer for over 70 years, until the Enterprise-D found his ship and revived him in
08:23the 24th century. It was awesome to have Scotty return and react to his new life in the future,
08:27but there was one scene in Relics that's quite frustrating for fans, really, who care about
08:30continuity. When Scotty first learned that he was rescued by the Enterprise, he didn't know so much time had
08:34passed and said that he thought Jim Kirk himself came looking for him. Of course, there's one problem.
08:38Kirk was believed dead when he was lost in the Nexus in Starter Generations, and Scotty was present on
08:43the Enterprise-B when it happened. Generations, of course, came out about two years after Relics,
08:48but the thing is, Ronald D. Moore was involved in writing both stories. Now, it just makes Scotty seem
08:55like a bit of a jerk for forgetting about his friend's death. Of course, they do talk about that
08:58.00003 degradation, so... all's fair? Number 1. Seti Alpha what now?
09:06There were a lot of problems with the beginning of The Wrath of Khan, an otherwise amazing film.
09:10Pavel Chekov and other crew members of the USS Reliant were sent to Seti Alpha 6 to survey a
09:14supposedly lifeless planet for experimentation with the Genesis device. While exploring the circus,
09:19Chekov and Captain Terrell encountered the wreckage of the SS Botany Bay, Khan's ship from Space Seed.
09:24Despite the fact that Walter Koenig hadn't joined the cast yet when Space Seed was filmed, Khan immediately
09:27recognised Chekov. There's actually a different part of the scene that's even more annoying.
09:31Khan explained that the planet they were on was, in fact, Seti Alpha 5, the planet that Khan and his
09:36fellow augments were left on at the end of Space Seed. Apparently, Seti Alpha 6 exploded and devastated
09:41the already harsh environment of Khan's planet. Yet, it's unexplained how a planetary explosion could be
09:47missed by the Federation, especially since they know that a group of the most dangerous humans in
09:51the universe settled in that same system. One would also think they'd return to check on the augments?
09:55You kind of can't be mad at Khan for being frustrated here.
09:57Now that's everything for this list, and if you reckon there's anything more that we missed,
10:01let us know in the comments for a potential third list. Don't forget to go back and read the article
10:05written by the wonderful Marcus Fry, and don't forget to check out the first list of most frustrating
10:09Star Trek moments. I have been Sean Ferrick. You can catch us over on Twitter at TrekCulture,
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