12 Stupidest Decisions By Star Trek Characters
9. Using The Enterprise; The Pegasus
Starfleet excels themselves once again with The Pegasus.
It is a classic TNG episode but let's examine the fact that the USS Enterprise is a ship filled with civilians and families. It is a ship of exploration set to go where no one has gone before and what does Starfleet decide?
To hand over command of a mission to an admiral seeking a banned piece of technology that's also being hunted down by the Romulans somewhere in an asteroid field.
Admiral Pressman could have had a more successful and covert mission on something a lot smaller but the Enterprise is anything but. The cover of a science mission might work but he unnecessarily puts over a thousand lives at risk and goes even further by taking an absolutely huge starship inside an asteroid. Why not drop everyone off first before heading into a potential red alert situation that you know of beforehand?
Viewers knew the stakes were high on this mission but this is an insane use of resources and hardly the way to keep such an covert operation under wraps. The number of people onboard hardly minimises the chances of word leaking out and to say it places Picard in a difficult position to begin with is an understatement.