What immediately bugs you when watching an episode? Mine is when they transport someone sitting down and they reintegrate in a standing position (or vice versa). Sure, the tech is near magical but my suspension of disbelief pretty much snaps when they do this.
My experience is mainly limited to TNG, but they have a terrible quarantine protocol when it comes to the danger of alien microbes/parasites/diseases/conditions.
I don’t just mean like requiring that the ground party should be forced to isolate after every field mission, but there are so many episodes where someone comes back from a planet with some strange illness, they take forever to even report something wrong, and even after they go to the med bay and determine “We have no idea what this is,” other members of the crew just visit and interact with no precautions, or sometimes even let the sick person just wander wherever on the ship if whatever they have isn’t debilitating.
Medical should have a large, dedicated, airgapped space similar to the brig where they can keep people for observation when there is suspicion of infection. And everyone should be suited up when interacting with any patients there.
I feel like the idea is their scans are so comprehensive as to make it unnecessary. You would think considering how often the scans fail they would do it but its been awhile so the question in my head is how soon the thing shows up. Im almost sure there have been some that are quick but others that such precautions would still not catch. All the same it would have been good for it to have taken either a real long time in every instance or required some interaction with something to activate it or something.
Just beaming down to a new planet and raw-dogging the atmosphere is bad science! Makes me crazy!
‘Raw dogging the atmosphere’ cracked my shit up I can’t stop laughing.
Hey, it was good enough for Prometheus, it’s good enough for Star Trek!