Spoilers for TNG S04E14 Clues
!The Enterprise encounters a planet inhabited by an isolationist species who uses a fake wormhole to knock people out so they can somehow mask their presence. OK, I’m with it so far.
This trap fails on Data who revives the crew and the aliens say they need to destroy the Enterprise to stop people finding out about them. Picard points out that if the Enterprise is destroyed Starfleet will come looking for them. Again, so far so good.
The aliens agree to let the crew live if they can wipe everyone’s memory and order Data to never say what happened. This memory wipe takes 24 hours so they modify the computer records to make everyone think a day hasn’t passed and they were actually out for 30 seconds. Then they do it again when the crew realises after finding some unforseen clues, so now at least 48 hours has passed. This is where it lost me.
I can understand them not realising straight away if they’re in deep space and not communicating with Starfleet, but surely they’re going to figure out their chronometer is 2 days off eventually and go back to try and figure out what went on?!<
The DS9 2 parter Homefront & Paradise Lost
A badmiral plans a military coup using a supposed Changeling attack as justification. He uses an elite group of cadets (Red Squad) to sabotage the planetary power grid, preplans drastic moves for his former loyalist crew to positions of power, and has the ability to mobilize personnel onto every street corner and test people at random.
Keep in mind he’d already been shown to be replaced by a changeling infiltrator once, and one of the infiltrators tells Sisko there are 4 of their people on the planet causing chaos.
Yet Sisko talks Leyton down who resigns his commission, Benteen probably got demoted or court marshalled, Red Squad gets tossed on a super secret mission (that is revisited later)…and everything just kinda goes back to normal.
What about the remaining 4 changelings on Earth? What about all the others culpable with the coup?