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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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Those pattern buffer filters aren't getting any better over the decades, are they?
You know, they should not even let the doors on shuttle craft open in dock, and just beam people in and out of them. That'd solve an entire other vector of infection.
The problem with Star Trek is, and always has been, that writers keep making it harder every episode for later authors to find ways of introducing crisis like these. Every solution closes a plot device door.
Star Trek has a serious Eagles Flying The Ring To Mt Doom problem.
I've never understood the eagles argument. One of the major character deaths is to a brutally strong uruk hai archer, mordor would absolutely annihilate flying enemies with ballistae, archers, and/or their own flyers, while brightly lit up by The Eye.
Also the Eagles are beings of demi-god like power that are second only to Gandalf's kind, if even them. The reason Gandalf cannot carry the One True Ring is that its effects are proportional to the carrier's power. Gandalf, being basically a step below the gods, absolutely should never be near the thing because he could probably destroy the world with it. The Eagles, being of very similar power to Gandalf, also should stay the fuck away from the Ring because they obliterate the world. The reason a Hobbit has to carry it is because Hobbits are the magical power equivalent of a 17 year old battery you found at the back of your grandma's junk drawer.
Why do people think this? The eagles are pretty explicitly mortal beasts, not Maiar or even immortal like Elves. They are servants of Manwe, but just big smart birds.