Unintended Consiquences : Or, "oops, haden't thought a' that.

[Lee]

Flangepart, that was frickin beutiful!
That's gotta be one of the coolest posts I've ever read! AWESOME!!!

[john]

Here's one I've always wondered about; how does an invisible man see? You can't see him, meaning the light passes right through him, so that means that it also passes right through his eyes rather than being focussed onto his retinas. The SFC series always said that the light was going around him and that he saw in a different spectrum than visible light, but most movies just assume that you can see while invisible.

 Or when someone becomes a ghost, they can't pick up anything (at least at first) or touch anything, so how do they climb stairs or stand on floors?

 Star Trek TNG made this same mistake in the episode where Geordy and someone else were 'phased' and couldn't touch anything, but yet they didn't fall through the deck. Then there's the question of how they were able to breath since they'd be out of phase with the air too.

 Even going by the rules of the show, they screwed up bigtime in a couple episodes. One episode showed them using the transporter to cure a fatal virus in the doctor. They used a sample of her DNA from before she contracted the virus as a guide for re-assembling her, so that she came out healthy (and with her memory up to the time the DNA sample was from, intact!). This means that they could use the transporter to cure pretty much anything. Lose an arm? No problem, just toss it into the transporter and put the person back together using a DNA sample from before he got hurt.

 Then there was the episode where Picard and 3 others were turned into children when the transporter left something out of their bodies. Congratulations, you've just discovered the secret of eternal youth! Nobody ever has to die of old age or disease in the Star Trek universe again.

 I always wondered why the holographic docter on Voyager would need to use real instruments to examine a patient, can't he just instantly made holographic instruments? Or why he'd need to actually talk to the computer, since he's a creation OF the computer.

 What about the holodeck, how does it simulate an enviroment much bigger than the room it's in? I could see if it used forcefields for the ground and moved people back when they got close to a wall, sort of like a treadmill, but what does it do when two crewmembers walk away from one another?

[J.R.]

I actually read in a Star Trek book that the holodecks have a treadmill-like thing on the ground that takes relativity into account or something. Another is when there's an explosion in a film  and someone runs down a hall from it or escapes it in an elevator shaft, and the filmmakers neglect to notice that not only would the sheer heat burn your skin clean off, but the fire would eat all the oxygen and you'd suffocate.

[AndyC]

Noticed something similar in the Spider Man movie, when Spidey and Gobby were fighting in the burning building. The temperature would have been hundreds of degrees in there. There should have been a lot more smoke as well.

[john]

Volcano has people standing on the other side of a concrete barrier from molten lava. Not to mention how they were able to create a solid, curving wall out of barriers that are wider on the bottom than on the top.