20 Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek"
1. The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less
advanced people and decides to blow it off and go fishing.
2. Commander Riker and Geordi decide to pull a practical joke
on Wesley and beam him into the women's gymnasium
shower room.
3. The Enterprise goes to visit a remote outpost of scientists,
and gets hopelessly lost in the wrong star system.
4. The crew of the Next Generation sit around for an entire
episode and watch reruns of the original Star Trek.
5. Data gets too close to a hair-dryer and spends an entire
episode walking around flashing a well known Vulcan hand
sign and saying "live long and prosper".
6. The Enterprise crew is captured by a vastly superior alien
intelligence which puts them in a galactic cubby hole and
forgets about them.
7. The Enterprise successfully ferries an alien VIP from one place
to another without his luggage.
8. An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to
interface to the Enterprise's computer, only to be destroyed
because it is the wrong polarity.
9. A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed
as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent
engineering staff. The part however has not been available
for 200 years.
10. Over a period of two months, the entire crew of the Enterprise
become infected with genital warts.
11. The Enterprise encounters a vastly inferior alien intelligence,
which they spend an entire episode belittling and embarrassing.
12. The Enterprise breaks down in deep space and has to be towed
back to a star base by a garbage scow.
13. Guinan reveals that on her home planet, all she ever did was
work at a Mcdonalds.
14. The Enterprise develops a bad case of 'space rust' and spends
most of an episode at drydock with painters wondering how
to get the paint to dry in outer space.
15. Captain Picard walks off the job for most of an episode in a
dispute over vacation and medical benefits.
16. Dr. Crusher receives a letter lost in the mail for 15 years
from her late husband telling her he has been having an affair
and is leaving her.
17. The warp engines start acting up a bit, and Geordi gets blown
to bits when he drops his visor in an engine while fixing it.
18. Wesley Crusher goes on a weekend jaunt with 'The Traveler'
and comes back 40 years older.
19. Counselor Troi tells Worf that he really is an evil rotten person
deepinside.
20. Data falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and stays
behind to get married and raise a family.
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