Star Trek: 10 Dumbest Decisions By Starfleet Officers

You'd think that being an officer means you need to be smart. No one told these folks.

#StarTrek #Starfleet #Dumb

[FB-nolr]

Picard in Generations. Choosing to exit the Nexus moments before Soran launches the rocket into the star when he could have gone back further in time, saved his family from the fire in the vineyard, and upon meeting Soran for the first time just saying "arrest that man, he's planning to destroy a star harbouring a pre-industrial civilisation!"

[jameszuniga]

I went to see 2009 Star Trek with non-Trek fans. They had NO IDEA why I was laughing so hard when Olson appeared on screen in his RED suit. 🤣🤣

[DrakeAurum]

What about Kirk not listening to Saavik and showing some regulation-mandated caution when approaching the Reliant? Just raise the shields, it's like one button press.

[jenniferwilliams]

You can add Rick Berman giving Terry Farrell an ultimatum to the list.

[JosephDickson]

6:02 Anyone notice how Neutral Zone only seems to apply to Federation vessels? Klingons and Romulans are always in the zone. 😂

[TzeentchLord]

Captain Georgio beaming onto a Klingon battle cruiser with only herself and ONE PERSON.

[stefanmisch]

How about not checking Geordi's visor before returning him to duty. Or at least use a backup device. It's not the first time his visor was manipulated.

[aj_chan]

#11: wearing red and beaming down to an unknown planet with Kirk, Spock and McCoy

[jackpoe]

You missed the worst Star Trek decision ever. The Paramount brass allowing JJ Abrams to have anything to do with the franchise :)

[robertcooke]

I can’t remember which Voyager episode it is, but I distinctly remember Chakotay saying something like, “everything we do seems to have the opposite effect on us. Shall we launch a photon torpedo?”

It really made me laugh as one of the stupidest things a first office could say.

[GizmoFromPizmo]

Say what you want about Commodore Decker, William Windom's portrayal of this character is THE high water mark of STOS! William Shatner wishes he could act as well as that. What a great role! What a great actor!

[deddy]

To be fair to Joe, how were those environmental suits actually supposed to protect from anything? You were still breathing the air because THE HEADPIECES WEREN'T SEALED.

[ClarinoI]

Whichever officer designed the computer consoles to be filled with rocks and explosives should surely be on this list somewhere.

[cjt]

You watch a list like this and marvel at how Starfleet survived beyond the TOS era xD

[johnternus]

I laughed so LOUD during the description of Mat Decker's decision- that my wife came in to find out the reason for the outburst. I replayed it for her. "Ah." she said. Love that Lady!

(FOR THE RECORD: my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE moment in Start Trek: Decker tells Kirk he beamed the crew to the 3rd planet. It is here where Kirk reminds Decker that, " there IS no 3rd planet!". Decker- breaking down into hysteria- "DON'T you think I KNOW THAT?!?! There WAS one - But Not ANY MORE!!!"
God Bless Willian Windom!!!
I am gonna go watch it again now...)

[SatoshiMatrix]

The Doomsday Machine is one of favorite episodes of Star Trek ever, so I gotta disagree with #3. Shortly after the USS Constillation is discovered, the Enterprise crew play back Decker's logs. In the logs, the Constillation was investigating a planet breaking up, goes to investigate and then is attacked and crippled by the Doomsday Machine. Decker beamed his crew down to evacuate them (I guess the concept of escape pods wasn't invented yet).

Decker had no way of knowing the Doomsday Machine was responsible for breaking up the planet, or that Doomsday Machine would destroy another planet. He was indeed acting in the best interest of his crew to beam them off the Constillation which Decker assumed would quickly be entirely destroyed by the Doomsday Machine, but instead it ignored the Constillation afterwards and went after the planet instead.

The whole story works so wonderfully because Decker was faced with an impossible choice with no answer. Does he leave his crew onboard a crippled ship where life support is out on most of it when facing a deadly enemy ship or does he evacuate his crew to safety? It still seems that evacuation was the correct move even knowing what we know.

[tomf]

- Mr Spock, you're the most cold blooded man ...
- Thank you doctor. I just won my fourth game.
- That's impossible !

[djhutchison]

9:27 You can't blame Commodore Stone for that. Spock himself ran the diagnostic on the ship computer, and found it to be mechanically sound. Computers, and the understanding around them were very different during the time the series was produced.

[pinky]

Please do "Top 10 Most Impractical Uniforms", about the most impractical uniforms, survival-suits and space-suits.

[davidblank]

Landry is the only character who's the same in the prime and mirror universes. Always loved that.