Star Trek: The Next Generation: Contagion (1989)
Season 2, Episode 11
5/10
Battlefield Iconia
24 March 2020
In the Scientology film Battlefield Earth the humans discover Harrier jets that are fuelled and functional after many decades. This was widely mocked. In this episode, the systems of the Iconians are still perfectly clean and working after 200.000 years. We don't even have words to describe how utterly ludicrous that is. Even worse is how Data can translate their language based on related (?) languages. For some reason Star Trek is always at its dumbest when language is involved. Oh, and in all that time no one has apparently discovered the planet either.

During the episode the Enterprise has serious computer errors. And no one thinks to do a cold reboot. Literally anyone who has ever used a computer would consider that first. Also there are no safeguards to prevent this? They just download the information from a ship that's experiencing major malfunctions?

However, despite being utterly and completely divorced from reality Contagion isn't bad. Shame no one from this universe was involved in writing this.
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