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!
I once ran across a hysterical list of "Top Ten Things You Will Never See on Star Trek"
I forget the order, but my favorites, and thus a backhand answer to your question were
The Enterprise encounters an alien disease the cure for which is in its well-stocked sickbay
and
The Enterprise encounters a member of an extremely advanced civilization that does not immediately put the captain on trial for all the crimes of humanity.
It drives me UP THE WALL that more effective medical uses for transporter tech weren't routinely featured on Star Trek - but of course, the moment you logically follow through on a new transporter capability, you lose 1/3 of your crises-of-the-week!
@MLClark
Exactly. They were so all.over the place with medical stuff, mostly just because lazy plot tropes.
I loved how Scalzi roasted the whole Sickbay thing in Redshirts.