All right. Switching gears to fiction-writing, after some tedious administrivia this afternoon, carried forward from yesterday's ridiculous 3-hour meeting & debrief.
What is your LEAST favourite sci-fi trope? Bonus points if it's something that gets done to death on #StarTrek!
Least favorite SF trope.
The all powerful being. A thing that inherently has no limits. Has no conflict, nor any real reason to move the plot along.
That's a good one!
The only time I've seen it done well is in TNG's "The Survivors" (S3E03), which involves discovering a being so powerful that it commits a crime so horrific, there doesn't exist a mechanism capable of grasping the immensity of what it's done, let alone with the power to enforce a sentence.
Picard leaves that entity with its grief, which is all a mere mortal can ever hope to do.