14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek Generations

9. Modesty Forbids

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Like Bruce Banner’s trousers, which survive his Hulking-out without being torn asunder in a wardrobe malfunction for the ages, the Nexus preserves modesty by being incredibly selective about what it scoops up and what it doesn’t.

On Veridian III it scoops up both Soran and Picard but leaves the rocks and Soran’s scaffolding completely intact. Just how does that work? This ribbon of spaceship-crushing joy selectively picks up not just the men and their clothing while managing not to collect bits of what they're standing on? It’s hard enough to buy that the transporter can do it to this degree, but at least that’s plugged into a supercomputer. So how does the Nexus know to collect Picard’s boots, rather than stopping at his socks? Is it intelligent?

Modesty is fine, but when a galaxy-surfing phenomenon knows to do it, it’s plain stupid.

 
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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.