Nits for Star Trek: Voyager episode
Bliss
1. Naomi at the helm.
Tom instructs her to press two buttons to bring the ship to quarter impulse speed. But Naomi presses the two buttons indicated, then presses the first button twice without any instruction and before Tom asks her if she can pilot the ship back to Voyager. Why is this little girl who still places her finger in her mouth over the idea of piloting the DF pressing more buttons than instructed? Why isn't Tom stopping her from pressing that last button twice?
And whatever happened to the protocol that prevents unauthorized personnel from accessing the ship's interfaces (first described in TNG's "Hero Worship")? "Hero Worship" maintained that little Timothy couldn't have ruined the research vessel because no matter how much he hit the interface controls nothing would happen unless he also entered an identification code. Does Naomi also have an identification code that will activate commands on the DF or has the DF done away with this protocol?
Nit Value: 0.25
2. Astrometrics display.
In a previous scene Tuvok announces the wormhole is 400 million kilometres away. This is about half the distance between Jupiter and the Sun (roughly where the asteroid belt resides). This is 22 minutes away at the speed of light.
Yet the course shown on the Astrometrics screen shows the ship passes through a solar system, past another solar system, and then on to the wormhole.
Either these are very small solar systems or the course being shown is the one they've already followed to get to where they are.
But why show the previous course taken when they are preparing to go to the wormhole? And how difficult can it be to plot a straight course of 300 million kilometres (the distance they are from the wormhole at the time of this scene [a distance slightly larger than that from Mars to the Sun]) to the wormhole, that they would need four senior officers in Astrometrics to do it?
Nit Value: 0.25
3. Security.
How secure is the ship that the removal of one iso-linear chip allows a non-comm to access the Captain's logs? And how did the computer know it should grant access to the logs after the removal of the chip when it had already refused access to the last voice command (ie the command wasn't repeated but the computer reversed its previous decision anyway)?
Nit Value: 0.50
4. Needle in a haystack.
How does Seven manage to spot an object on the Astrometrics screen that, when enlarged, turns out to be Qatai's ship?
Nit Value: 0.25
5. 300 million kilometres is not 3.4 light years.
When the wormhole is detected Tuvok announces it is 400 million kilometres from the ship. When Seven arrives in Astrometrics from the survey mission she finds that they are 300 million kilometres from the worm hole. However, when she talks with Qatai for the first time she announces she is 3.4 light years from Qatai's ship.
That's considerably more than 300 million kilometres.
Nit Value: 0.50
6. The final log entry.
When Seven reviews Janeway's log entry the first one showed a date of 52542.3. The last entry of the show is given the same stardate despite the passage of a few days.
Nit Value: 0.50
Summary:
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Nit Value for "Bliss": 2.25
Wulf's Nitpicker Rating: 7.75
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