Here's the level this show is written on:
Picard and Riker beam onto the Eleos, apparently bringing transport inhibitors with them. When they realize Vadic is trying to beam Jack Crusher off the ship, they activate the transport inhibitors in order to protect him. The Titan then arrives and tries to beam the four to safety. Picard says it's "not a moment too soon" and Riker comments that Seven needs to "hurry up". Neither Picard nor Riker can figure out why the Titan's transporter isn't reaching them, until Jack suddenly remembers "The transport inhibitors!", which Picard then shoots.
What am I watching?
Not even the lamest, most dunderheaded episode of the Next Generation, DS9, Voyager or even Enterprise would have inadvertently written its main characters as this stupid, unless their odd behavior or forgetfulness was a plot point. Janeway or Archer or Trip being an asshole and having kneejerk reactions to situations is one thing, something that plenty of fans including myself criticized. But to watch a tense action scene shot in real time where Picard and Riker activate transport inhibitors, explaining their function to the person they're protecting as they do so, then 2 minutes later wonder why they can't be beamed up and have to have the guest character explain it back to them? This is off the charts. It's absolutely incredible to watch an episode where someone *throws a starship at another starship* (in a scene played entirely seriously rather than as goofy Orville- or Lower Decks-style comedy) and yet that ISN'T the stupidest scene in the episode.
Picard and Riker beam onto the Eleos, apparently bringing transport inhibitors with them. When they realize Vadic is trying to beam Jack Crusher off the ship, they activate the transport inhibitors in order to protect him. The Titan then arrives and tries to beam the four to safety. Picard says it's "not a moment too soon" and Riker comments that Seven needs to "hurry up". Neither Picard nor Riker can figure out why the Titan's transporter isn't reaching them, until Jack suddenly remembers "The transport inhibitors!", which Picard then shoots.
What am I watching?
Not even the lamest, most dunderheaded episode of the Next Generation, DS9, Voyager or even Enterprise would have inadvertently written its main characters as this stupid, unless their odd behavior or forgetfulness was a plot point. Janeway or Archer or Trip being an asshole and having kneejerk reactions to situations is one thing, something that plenty of fans including myself criticized. But to watch a tense action scene shot in real time where Picard and Riker activate transport inhibitors, explaining their function to the person they're protecting as they do so, then 2 minutes later wonder why they can't be beamed up and have to have the guest character explain it back to them? This is off the charts. It's absolutely incredible to watch an episode where someone *throws a starship at another starship* (in a scene played entirely seriously rather than as goofy Orville- or Lower Decks-style comedy) and yet that ISN'T the stupidest scene in the episode.