The biggest engineering thing that I see repeated that doesn’t make any sense is when they are fighting the Borg. They set their phasers to randomly change frequencies to avoid them adapting. They still adapt.
What the fuck? This should only work a couple times before the Borg know how to counter every frequency the phasers can use but it happens literally every time they fight.
That’s not fair. He also runs level one and level three diagnostics.
But not level two. Never level two.
Why not level 2??? WHY???
If you run a level 2 diagnostic, you have to take apart the entire warp core.
If the shiz really hits the fan there’s 4 or, Koala forbid, 5. We can roundly ignore that one stray “Level 10” diagnostic from DISCO.
I will not stand idly by for this good natured robbing of my man Geordi! Harrumph! Harrumph, I say! 😾
Best engineer in starfleet? Then why’d you have to build a replica of Leah Brahms? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Nobody is going to forget that, huh?
Dude doubled down on the creeper demeanor and then gaslit the girl when called on his crap. I am normally a Geordi enjoyer but the ick imposed in this instance is impossible to ignore.
Possibly an interesting and useful bit of sci-fi, that pair of episodes.
We live in an age where we’re confronted with new and untested ways of interacting with other people and their intellectual works and having to ask ourselves what we’re okay with. Case in point: Deepfake porn.
Star Trek would often do hilariously infeasible things with the computer. Remember how far-fetched asking the computer to just create a new scenario in the style of a Sherlock Holmes adventure? We can actually do that now. How long will it be, with things like LLMs and generative AI, before we can ask a computer to simulate a living person and it works like it did for Geordi? Is it okay to do when you need to talk to an expert? Is it okay to form a friendship or relationship with that simulation?
The writers of TNG thought of this in the early 90’s.
