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**** By the way, Data ''doesn't'' leak: if you chop off his arm he has a snarl of wiring and metal "bones" — with empty gaps of air in between. And if you rip off or cut his skin, it just flaps there like wrapping paper, revealing the circuitry underneath. So the Trek writers accomplished the impressive feat of making even a handwave that didn't make sense actually contradict canon.

*** Not to mention the mutation that caused the disease to [[Hotter and Sexier|increase the libido of the crewmembers, or something]]. In "The Naked Time" it lowered inhibitions -- Riley, proud of his Irish ancestry, imagines himself as a old High King singing love songs; Sulu, who fancies himself a fencer, becomes one of [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]; Spock, forever forced to bury his emotional side has it come to the surface leading to him losing control and ''weeping''; Nurse Chapel admits her love to a man who can never return it; finally, Kirk, burdened by his position of Captain, breaks down and admits the enormous pressures he's under and how being around [[Love Interest|Yeoman Rand]] is painful. What happens in "The Naked Now"? "You're kinda hot, let's have sex!"

** In "Datalore", it's understandable for Lore to be dismissive of [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]] to slip up his disguise. But the crew is dismissive as well, causing Wesley to basically shout it out to them! And even that fails. The crew's, and especially Picard's, disbelief is inexplicable, since all Lore would need to do to impersonate Data is incapacitate him and switch outfits... which is exactly what he had done, and what he would eventually do again.

*** It's even worse than that because Picard had sent Wesley specifically to check on Lore and Data and see if something was amiss. Why send someone to check if something is wrong if you're just going to dismiss them when they say they saw something wrong?!

* In "Loud as a Whisper," the great negotiator that the Enterprise is transporting is deaf and speaks through a telepathic chorus of aides. But, throughout the episode, people address him when he isn't looking by calling his name, and people speak directly to him with no-one else present, and he responds. That could have made sense if they meant mute -- but they go to a lot of trouble to explain how he cannot process any sound.

* Worf's big bad-ass sash is so shiny that in the [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] episode, everyone logically reasoned that Worf must be the captain because he has the prettiest uniform. Hurrah for cultural diversity! But, Starfleet protocols forbid Bajorans to wear iddy-biddy earrings.

** And let's not forget that partway through the trial the engineers (as in actual scientists) discovered that the explosion that kicked off the whole thing was caused by a defective seal. As in it was clearly an accident. Nobody was at fault. ''There was no crime.'' But the JAG officer is allowed to continue her crusade anyway.

*** Even worse, not only is she allowed to continue her crusade, her assistants refuse to believe it was an accident, either, and purposely [[Lying to the Perp|lied to their suspect about the cause of the explosion]] to try and get him to confess. Shouldn't they have been punished for trying to perjure the defendant?

** Speaking of that episode, check out Data's behavior; he ''throws Geordi from an electrified panel'' and gives a ''human'' reaction of embarrassed surprise and shock. He stupidly puts his hand through a ''rapidly-changing portal through space'' (good thing the "image" didn't change while his hand was in there). And look at his reaction to being reactivated after purging his systems of the Iconian program. This is supposed to be an ''emotionless'' android, correct? One ''incapable'' of mimicking or even ''understanding'' human behavior? Why is he acting like this?

** No one in the 24th Century seems to know how to ''do a system restore on a computer''. You forgot that there was a ''reason'' there's a protective archive in the computer core, Geordi?

* "Time Squared" has a bad portrayal of both Captain Picard and Counsellor Troi. Picard acts ''extremely'' emotional and forceful with everyone, including the future doppelganger of him who drives the episode. Supposedly, he's acting this way because it appears that the doppelganger abandoned the Enterprise to its doom, and the crew have no way of knowing what caused the ship to explode or why the doppelganger left until it happens. But Picard has been shown to take stuff like this more calmly in previous episodes. And even his stress can't explain why he ''nearly assaulted his doppelganger while he was recovering in sickbay in order to get answers'', even though Troi told him several times that the doppelganger couldn't answer. Nor does it explain his rejection of the notion that the doppelganger was him simply because he couldn't see himself performing the actions the doppelganger did -- especially since earlier episodes have shown him to take stuff like this more calmly and open mindedly... Troi flip-flops on whether she's sympathetic or appalled by Picard's attitude. She goes from near-accusatory admonisment of him for his aforementioned assault, to ''defending'' his assault and ''rejecting the concerns of the ship's doctor about Picard's state of mind as unnecessary''. So, she clearly saw how out of character Picard was and even told him off about it, but she sees no reason to be concerned about it? What kind of counsellor is she? ([[Informed Ability|Don't answer that last question...]])

** As far as Picard's actions go, it's true he had dealt with some freaky situations in the past, but being face to face with a future version of yourself who may or may not have fracked up big time is got to be the sort of thing that strains even the strongest of sanities.

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