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** Then there's the bit at the beginning, where the ''Enterprise'' gets hit with four energy blasts from Nomad that are supposedly the equivalent of "ninety photon torpedoes", yet Kirk is surprised when ''a single torpedo'' gets absorbed by Nomad.
* The cloaking device. Ignoring the fact that it's already been proven such a device would make a ship ''easy'' to find (since it would show up as a huge void in the background noise, as at least one "super-stealthy" submarine crew has had the unfortunate experience of finding out), when we're first introduced to it, it's explicitly stated that the Romulans, who ''developed'' the damn thing, ''couldn't figure out how to see through it''. To paraphrase [[SF Debris]], how do they not know the frequency ''of their own damn cloaking device?!''
** That depends on how the cloaking device works, which we're never told. If, for one hypothetical possibility, it worked by bending electromagnetic signals around the ship's volume without loss, that would solve both the "black hole in space" problem (as you're picking up normal emissions for that area of space) ''and'' the "frequency" problem (as there's no frequency to detect -- the entire point of the device is that it looks exactly like a similar volume of empty space would look). So, depending on the actual cloaking mechanism, there may or may not be any plot hole here.
* Captain Pike in "The Menagerie" is seriously crippled, but can communicate sufficiently to send one of two signals ("yes" or "no"). Apparently most of information theory and [[Everyone Knows Morse|the concept of Morse code]] were lost between now and then -- if he can communicate that much, he ought to be able to communicate ''any'' message... which would [[Anthropic Principle|knock the bottom out of the whole story]].
* The several episodes where Kirk throws an entire planet into shambles because he personally feels that the way they live is wrong or is holding up the (wrong) concept of evolution for the people on the planet. Granted, every time the reigning person or supercomputer is trying to kill him and the ''Enterprise'' (usually for being guilty of trespassing and meddling), but when his plan succeeds Kirk then goes into some kind of speech about "how the way it was is bad and now you must learn to become proper people!".
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