OT: Star Trek Movie (XI)

[AgentZero]

I do not like the clean, hopeful Star Trek. The whole, "Let's solve our problems with idealism! And technology!" attitude makes my channel-flicking finger very itchy. Well, I'm not entirely against the "let's solve our problems with technology" part, because it's sci-fi, so of course technology will play a part in it.

And coming up with some neat little gadget to solve a particular problem that we can look at and say, "Wow, that's cool," is good sci-fi technofantasy. Realigning the phase coil inductors is not.

Why not just say, "Well, Captain, what we're going to do, see, is load the magazines with bovine fecal matter, and fire it out the torpedo tubes. Oh look, the bovine fecal matter blew them up! Aren't we clever?" Because that, and realigning the phase coil inductors, is exactly the same damn thing.