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K181 posted...

The series opened with them explicitly stating that they have a limited supply, listing their inventory, and warning that they had no way to replace them, and then promptly and completely forgot that for the rest of the series. And its not like they started uaiang alien torpedos, they kept on using Federation photons.

Plus, it was provisioned for what was anticipated as being a fairly short cruise hunting for a single ship in a specific sector. By all accounts, a massive and unplanned 7-year trek across tens of thousands of light years of uncharted space shouldve long since depleted their resources, resulted in widespread system failures, and a constant need to re-provision and adapt the ship.

And yet, aside from a throwaway two-parter that was promptly forgotten, that never happened other than specific McMuffins for individual threats. The ship was in near perfect working order, everyone was living a life of luxury, and they had the wherewithal to build not one but two super advanced shuttlecraft, all while being able to maintain a moral high ground. They did a worse job accounting for limited supplies than DS9 did, despite DS9 being on an active Federation supply and armament route.

The premise of the show was a previously post-scarcity ship suddenly finds itself without ability to resupply with Federation material, and shouldve been featuring the ship slowly breaking down, getting jury rigged, completely changing the appearance and capabilities of the ship with alien tech, and the crew getting increasingly desperate. Instead, even TNG devoted more time to ship maintenance than VOY, despite Enterprise being specifically provisioned for multiyear cruises and closer to Federation resupply.

I'm with you on all of that. I wish the epicness of the journey and the resource limitations came up more often (and the damage from previous episodes continued)

But "Actually you said you had 70 Torpedos but over the course of 8 years you had 100." just makes me think of the Wizard Did It scene from the Simpsons.

I don't think the Show would be improved if one episode had 10 minutes of B'Elanna installing Torpedos and saying "Man it's great we bumped into the Chazwazzers of the Milkakeikiki system who had Madithuium Conhectors that we could modify into Photon Torpedos in exchange for Tom's fucked up BDSM porn holonovels he got from Risa"

It's story nerds clashing with the numbers nerds and I'm with the story nerds every time.

Honestly the random female Vulcan extra after they established Tuvok and Vorik were the only 2 on multiple occasions bugs me more than the Torpedo count.