The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek First Contact

11. Shatter-Goof Glass

Star Trek: First Contact
Paramount

In a preposterous contrast to the forcefield-as-window seen earlier in the film, glass is back, baby, in the Observation Lounge. This is amply demonstrated when Captain Jean-Ahab Picard swings his phaser rifle at the center panel of the display case containing the “little ships.” Transparent aluminum this stuff isn't, and it goes to pieces like a saloon window in a TV Western.

It's the 24th century, and they don't have shatterproof glass? What's to prevent any hapless crewmembers from cutting themselves to ribbons whenever the ship inevitably does a "Starfleet shuffle" during some space combat or ship-rocking anomaly?

"Dr. Crusher. Bactine to the Observation Lounge, stat. Dr. Crusher..."

 
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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.