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?!<
I know it’s blasphemy, but I’m not a Lower Decks fan.
Contextualize this for an ignorant boob, okay?
That central character is the currator of the Voyager museum, and the Lower Decks crew is there to take the newly completed museum ship to Earth. He spends the whole time stressing over their antics.
I was actually looking for a gif of him saying “Subtle updates that do not impact historical consistency are an acceptable compromise for preservation!” but I couldn’t find it lol