10 Awkward Things That Must Have Happened After Star Trek Episodes

The most awkward moments in Star Trek history may have happened off camera.

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[Enigmanaut]

Mark didn't marry 6 months after Voyager was lost. He married after Voyager was *declared* lost... which was about 4 years after it vanished.

[ProfArmitage]

Geordi was in no position to lecture Barclay on the ethics of recreating real people on the holodeck.
"I'm with you every day, Geordi. Every time you look at this engine, you're looking at me. Every time you touch it, it's me." Galaxy's Child

[NeoTechni]

My wife and I both lost it when you called Spock a loser

[johnfoss]

There should have been awkwardness between Janeway and Kim. Imagine Harry doing nearly everything by the book with no promotion while his bestie, Tom, starts as Ensign (technically below him), promotes to Lt, gets busted down to Ensign then promoted again.

[seanreid]

In Inner Light Picard lived far more than a decade inside the program. It was close to 3 or 4 decades

[jayb]

I don’t think that the Doctor really had romantic feelings for B’Elanna since if he did his fantasy probably wouldn’t be breaking up with her. He just fantasized about being so desirable that every woman on the ship wanted him.

[metropod]

I've always wanted to see what the reactions of the families of the Voyager crew would have been when they got the news they're still alive. "Message in a bottle" should have been a 2 part storyline.

[ShamankingZuty]

How can you not include "Hard Time" from DS9?! O'Brien experienced spending 20 years in a mind prison in an hour for a crime he didn't commit. He went insane from the hopelessness he experienced and the episode ends with him drawing the same shape he drew while in the mind prison to help keep himself calm. It's just never brought up again and I can't imagine how many years of therapy you'd need to get over not only the trauma of being wrongfully imprisoned for 20 years, but to only find out that an hour had passed by for everyone else must really have fucked with him even more.

[ruthp]

Janeway's fiance didn't marry someone else after only 6 months. (Where did you get that from?) In the episode Hunters of season 4 (that would be at least 4 years after being lost in the Delta Quadrant), she says that Mark had held out longer than most in hoping Voyager would be found but eventually he realized that he had to move on and continue his life, and that ' about four months ago' he married someone he worked with, meaning that at least 3 1/2 years had gone by.

[maxshenkwrites]

The lingering after-effects of Picard's experience in "The Inner Light" WERE addressed, although they didn't do so until the following season, in the episode "Lessons." Much of the plot of that episode is a direct callback to "The Inner Light."

[miriam]

I always imagine the captain and officers beside him just sitting there staring at the viewer after him saying 'engage' at the end of an episode. Just sitting there awkwardly twirling their thumbs while nothing happens during hours of travelling.

[haweater]

I've always thought that after events of "The Inner Light", that Picard was able to step back into the captain chair right away. The probe beam gave him decades of memories to play through, and when the transmission stopped after 25 minutes, his suppressed memories of his real life came back. He could still remember his command codes, but still took time off to reflect anyways. Yes, emotionally it was a ton to take in, like waking up from a thirty year long dream where in the end nothing "real" happened.

[DrakeAurum]

I'm fairly sure Starfleet is generally opposed to their officers gaining awesome cosmic powers. It's not as though it's ever gone well.

[MistyBottom]

I don't think that it's ever mentioned in an episode, but Voyager's variable geometry nacelles were introduced as a writing 'CYA' (cover your arse) for being able to exceed the warp 5 speed limit.

The writers knew they'd be bombarded by 'um actually' nerds when they decided Voyager would need to go faster to get home so they added some flappy bits to technobabble their way out of it if needed.

[control]

I'm glad Lower Decks isn't getting ignored in these lists. It's by far and away my favourite of all the recent Treks.

[CthulhuPresident]

Losing Mark sort of explains why Admiral Janeway was so much more of a hardass. She sort of always was, but post Voyager really had her dial up uncompromising and reckless to 11.
It was the entire reason she was able to go against the wishes of not just Starfleet but essentially the entire alpha quadrant and travel back in time to assist Voyager.
It was almost like she said 'If I can't have a happier ending, I know for a fact I can make a few happier outcomes for the crew who suffered under my captaincy'.

[richardjohnson]

Geordi lecturing Barclay about recreating real people on the holodeck is hilariously ironic considering what he was likely already doing with his holo version of Leah Brahms during that time. Hollow Pursuits takes place in between Booby Trap, when he created her and Galaxy's Child, when Geordi himself was busted by the real Leah

[TheDarkVampire]

On the Troi thing problem is with her empathetic abilities she will very much have known that Barkley (and anyone else ) was very much attracted to her that must also have been very awkward for Barkley as he would know she knows and as she is the very person he is supposed to talk to about his issues like that makes it even worse.

[dansmif]

I'm guessing Tom and Janeway avoided each other for a while after turning into salamanders and mating!

[leexgx]

The cumulative effect of Warp travel was more based on when they were going through the same part of space repeatedly (future warp system and necelles seem to limit or remove this problem the new enterprise and voyager had completely redesigned warp engines and neclles) in that episode it was more than a an issue because there was a narrow corridor that ships had to fly throu witch was causing cumulative effect and could effect local planets and sun and possible hole like rupture in space