Sir Patrick Steward gravely disappointed me once again in his lack of knowledge of physical laws. The one episode I had the displeasure to review was appalling in that he allowed himself to contribute to the dumbing down of the audience. The opening scene shows a young woman in her apartment being attacked by Romulan assassins. She dispatches them with ease. She seeks out Picard. They talk and Picard realizes she is a biological android that may have been created by Data, his friend, long since destroyed.
The next scene shows Picard and the biological android crossing a public square heading toward a flight of stairs that are 20 feet wide and 40 feet high. There were no other people in view. As they approached the stairs, many Romulans appear out of thin air on the stairs. She confirms to Picard she isn’t human by charging toward the Romulans and leaping upward 30 feet to combat them rather than running up the stairs. The human body is incredibly fragile because it is mostly comprised of water. Water is incompressible.
The remaining mortally wounded Romulan spits on her. His spit was acid. She screams as the acid eats at her flesh. She is holding one of the Romulan’s energy rifles. It explodes. The explosion throws Picard at least 30 feet backward. The explosion shock wave would have killed Picard by hydrostatic shock to his organs. If he had survived a blast in the real world, we would see at the least capillary disruption over his skin that faced the force of the blast, as well as, serious damage to his eyes. Picard suffered no physical trauma from the blast. The explosion left no traces, not even scorch marks from the heat. There weren’t any body parts from the Romulans or the android either. Completely and utterly impossible.
Written by Mark Pullen. Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell.