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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 they originally
00:40predicted. Kess went Super Saiyan and launched the ship all the way to the other side of the
00:44territory in The Gift, one episode after Voyager first entered it in Scorpion. Voyager went on to
00:49encounter the Borg several more times throughout the series, but the writers having them skip past
00:52the most difficult part of their journey so easily wastes so much story potential. We could have had a
00:56season-long arc of the Voyager struggling desperately to make it through the home of one of the most
01:01terrifying empires in Trek, it would have been the perfect opportunity to give the show a bit of a
01:05darker tone and raise the stakes. Maybe one of the crew being assimilated. Having Kess launch the ship
01:10to safety with their telepathic powers was a good idea, but it definitely would have been nice to see
01:14more than two episodes inside of Borg territory.
01:18Number 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
01:24The Wrath of Khan,
01:25really. Some however like to think of it as a more of an homage film, especially when it comes to
01:30the
01:30ending when Kirk sacrificed himself to save the ship just like Spock did in the original. Look,
01:34Kirk's death scene was great, but the frustrating part is just how they brought him back. In the search
01:38for Spock, Spock was resurrected using the Genesis planet and his Catra in a really creative way that
01:43tied into the previous film brilliantly, but in Into Darkness, McCoy basically just invented an
01:47immortality serum using Khan's blood. This method of bringing him back to life was pretty uninspired,
01:52and came out of nowhere. But worse than that, it basically meant that people could be resurrected
01:56at any time the plot required, provided they produced more augmented blood in a lab. It
02:01only removed the stakes in a way that Spock's revival didn't, given that Project Genesis ended
02:06and the 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.
02:15They were now hairless for some reason, had giant elongated heads, and looked more like generic
02:19reptilian aliens from another TV show. Some of these changes were rolled back a bit into the
02:23second season, like for example their hair came back and it was explained that Klingon warriors
02:27sometimes shaved 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 with the Ferengi
02:41that looked much closer to Andrew Probert's original design of the Ferengi. Whereas the Ferengi we were used to
02:47seeing on screen had smoother features and skin apart from the oldest ones like Zek, these ones
02:52had a more spiked ear and were a bit more lined. Again, the fandom was a little bit up in
02:58arms.
02:59Some liked it, some hated it, some were like oh you're changing things for the sake of changing
03:03things, others were like yeah but that's in the very first sketch. Really it's just one of those
03:08watershed moments in Star Trek that once again people get really frustrated about or love depending on the
03:14day of the week. Number 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
03:26prime timeline counterparts from the original series. Kirk was particularly quick to move through the
03:30ranks, he went from a cadet to captain of the Federation's flagship all because of his work defeating
03:35Nero and saving the Earth at the end of the 2009 film. Problem is that plenty of other characters in
03:40the
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
03:59wondering about the true nature of his species. The Q Continuum as he called it was always spoken about
04:03vaguely as some 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 Continuum
04:13when the Q known as Quinn brought them there to show how miserable life for the Q has gotten.
04:19Unfortunately 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 basically
04:34meant 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.
04:42Later the crew visited the Continuum again in the episode The Q in the Grey and it was portrayed as
04:46a battlefield in the American Civil War. It makes sense that the domain of the Q would be beyond the
04:51understanding of humans but the fact that we can't possibly ever know what life is truly like in
04:55the Continuum is a bit of a bummer really. Number 5 Riker being confused about gender-neutral language in the
05:0024th century The Next Generation episode The Outcast was frustrating for a lot of Shrekies mostly because it
05:06tried to tell a story in support of gay pride for the first time in the franchise's history but it
05:10totally missed the mark on a lot of stuff and ended up dealing with gender far more than sexuality.
05:15The Enterprise-D was introduced to the Genii, a species with only one sex, and Riker started to
05:20form a relationship with one of them named Saren who he found out was actually identifying as female.
05:25The whole episode then focused on her struggle to be accepted as a woman by her society. There are a
05:30number of problems with the Outcast but there's one scene that seems particularly short-sighted.
05:34While speaking with Riker about her sexless species, Riker was extremely confused on what pronouns to
05:39use for them. When the episode was made, they, them, theirs was not very popular singular pronouns in
05:43America even though they were popular for describing someone of unknown gender in the past. So Saren told
05:49Riker that the Genii used a gender-neutral pronoun that had no equivalent in English. Watching this scene
05:53back today is particularly frustrating for non-binary folks. Fortunately, Discovery seemed to retcon this by giving us our
05:59first non-binary human character, Adira Tal, who used they, them, theirs, showing there's not just
06:04aliens who can exist outside of male and female expectations. 4. Icheb's Death
06:09A lot of old Trekkies can criticise New Trek for being too dark and depressing, specifically Discovery
06:14or Picard. Some take this too far and decide to write these shows off entirely, which is a bit of
06:19an
06:19overreaction, but there are times when even the biggest supporters of the New Trek era have to see
06:24where the haters are coming from. Specifically, Icheb's death scene from Star Trek Picard was one of those
06:29brutal and abrupt deaths of a major character in Trek history. Icheb was the only one of the Borg
06:34children recovered by Voyager who came back to Earth with the rest of the crew. He was an extremely
06:38intelligent young man with a passion for helping others and a bright future ahead of him. Then,
06:42after decades of wondering what happened to him after reaching the Alpha Quadrant, we were giving
06:46a scene of him screaming in agony as someone ripped out his eyeball to harvest his Borg implants for sale.
06:51To make this even more awful, Seven of Nine discovered him and decided to end his suffering.
06:55The scene was meant to show how Seven had changed into an emotionally broken vigilante,
06:59but Icheb's death just came as such a surprise. It was definitely a good way to give Seven more of
07:03an edge, but it would have been nice to have had some build-up to the death scene. It just
07:06feels like
07:06the writers threw away his character for Seven's sake. 3. Michael Burnham's Mutiny
07:11Michael Burnham was given a pretty bad introduction in the first episode of Discovery, The Vulcan Hello.
07:15The episode ended with a assaulting Captain Georgiou with a Vulcan nerve pinch to fire preemptively on the
07:20Klingons against her wishes. This act of mutiny is what initially gave Burnham such an awful reputation with the
07:25rest of Starfleet, as well as the fans. She argued that the Klingons would respect the Federation if
07:29the Shenzhou beat them to the first punch, but this idea went against everything that the Federation is
07:33supposed to stand for, and it possibly would have just made the Klingons angrier. Later, she nearly
07:38redeemed herself by travelling to the lead Klingon ship to catch her Takuvma, and unfortunately that
07:42didn't work as Takuvma ended up killed after killing Georgiou in a brutal assault. While the Klingon Empire was
07:50always 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
08:01discovered by Captain Lorca and the USS Discovery. 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 through the
08:15transporter but didn't direct it to anywhere, so he was stuck unconscious in the pattern buffer for
08:19over 70 years, until the Enterprise D found his ship and revived him in the 24th century. It was
08:24awesome to have Scotty return and react to his new life in the future, but there was one scene in
08:28Relics
08:28that's quite frustrating for fans really who care about continuity. When Scotty first learned that he
08:32was rescued by the Enterprise, he didn't know so much time had passed and said that he thought Jim
08:35Kirk himself came looking for him. Of course, there's one problem. Kirk was believed dead when he was lost in
08:40the Nexus in Starter Generations, and Scotty was present on the Enterprise B when it happened.
08:44Generations, of course, came out about two years after Relics, but the thing is, Ronald D. Moore was
08:50involved in writing both stories. Now, it just makes Scotty seem like a bit of a jerk for forgetting
08:56about his friend's death. Of course, they do talk about that .00003 degradation, so... all's fair.
09:041. Seti Alpha what now? There were a lot of problems with the beginning of The Wrath of Khan,
09:09an otherwise amazing film. Pavel Chekov and other crew members of the USS Reliant were sent to Seti Alpha
09:136 to survey a supposedly lifeless planet for experimentation with the Genesis device.
09:18While exploring the circus, Chekov and Captain Terrell encountered the wreckage of the SS
09:21Botany Bay, Khan's ship from Space Seed. Despite the fact that Walter Koenig hadn't joined the
09:26cast yet when Space Seed was filmed, Khan immediately recognised Chekov. There's actually a different
09:29part of the scene that's even more annoying. Khan explained that the planet they were on was,
09:34in fact, Seti Alpha 5, the planet that Khan and his fellow augments were left on at the end of
09:39Space Seed. Apparently Seti Alpha 6 exploded and devastated the already harsh environment of Khan's
09:43planet. Yet it's unexplained how a planetary explosion could be missed by the Federation,
09:48especially since they know that a group of the most dangerous humans in the universe
09:51settled 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.
09:58Now 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
10:09frustrating Star Trek moments. I have been Sean Ferrick. You can catch us over on Twitter at
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10:28have a wonderful however long it is. I'm talking to you again. Make it so.
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