We see the covert team training at negotiating a tunnel course within a tight time frame but when they reach the planet they do nothing remotely similar. They move slowly and reach obstacles that are nothing like their training. Plus, most annoying, was the 5 year old level of their conversation where they have to explain to the audience everything that they are doing. The dialog was horrendous. Beverly shaking off being crushed by rocks as if they were Styrofoam was ridiculous. An accident should have a plausible consequence.
Far more logical would be for us to see them appear in the cave, confirm that it looks like their map, run through the tunnels exactly the same as their training and THEN run into a problem, such as a cave-in that blocks their planned route. They then must go around it, so they they state that they will have to take the cliff route. Because a 500 m cliff and cavern doesn't magically appear within a year. And magically lead to the same place. In fact most logical would be having to go down 500m and then back up to get back to join where they want to be. It is possible to write plausible scripts and dialog.
Some reviewers complain that it is implausible that Picard, Warf & Beverly would lead this covert team, but it's Star Trek, of course the main characters are going to be performing the key roles, so most of the audience will accept this.
It was more problematic that the Federation's flagship would arrive without its well-known captain to negotiate such a serious matter. They didn't have a viable cover story for why he was missing.
Having a well-known human and Klingon walk into a crowded public place to book covert passage into Kardassian space was ridiculous. It would have made far more sense to see another Federation team perform that role in the bar and then see the team boarding the Ferengi ship, with its captain surprised that the passengers where not who he expected. But different actors would have cost more money.
The way that they relieved the captain was also implausible. Why act like he is permanently relieved when the whole crew will see that he's using the holodeck to plan for a specific mission? If they wanted to pretend that, then he should have immediately left on another ship and trained there. (But too expensive.)
It was initially interesting to see how the new captain takes charge of the ship but it quickly went downhill. He gives an order to go to 4 shifts, Riker concludes that it's not feasible but instead of directly informing him, it comes up in a conversation at the ceremony? That's pathetic.
It is common practice that a new commander will make many changes for no reason other than to assert his authority and get people accustomed to following his commands. Some of his commands didn't make a lot of sense, especially changing from three to four shifts because that's a lot of upheaval in a critical time period.
Of course the writers wanted a fight scene, but even a junior Kardassian, would have been able to setup a plan to capture the three of them without any risk. Just turn on a force field to contain them. It wasn't plausible that the Kardassians would simply let Worf and Crusher leave, but they weren't important to the plot anymore.
Once again, an interesting premise and some good points but not nearly as engaging as it should be,
Far more logical would be for us to see them appear in the cave, confirm that it looks like their map, run through the tunnels exactly the same as their training and THEN run into a problem, such as a cave-in that blocks their planned route. They then must go around it, so they they state that they will have to take the cliff route. Because a 500 m cliff and cavern doesn't magically appear within a year. And magically lead to the same place. In fact most logical would be having to go down 500m and then back up to get back to join where they want to be. It is possible to write plausible scripts and dialog.
Some reviewers complain that it is implausible that Picard, Warf & Beverly would lead this covert team, but it's Star Trek, of course the main characters are going to be performing the key roles, so most of the audience will accept this.
It was more problematic that the Federation's flagship would arrive without its well-known captain to negotiate such a serious matter. They didn't have a viable cover story for why he was missing.
Having a well-known human and Klingon walk into a crowded public place to book covert passage into Kardassian space was ridiculous. It would have made far more sense to see another Federation team perform that role in the bar and then see the team boarding the Ferengi ship, with its captain surprised that the passengers where not who he expected. But different actors would have cost more money.
The way that they relieved the captain was also implausible. Why act like he is permanently relieved when the whole crew will see that he's using the holodeck to plan for a specific mission? If they wanted to pretend that, then he should have immediately left on another ship and trained there. (But too expensive.)
It was initially interesting to see how the new captain takes charge of the ship but it quickly went downhill. He gives an order to go to 4 shifts, Riker concludes that it's not feasible but instead of directly informing him, it comes up in a conversation at the ceremony? That's pathetic.
It is common practice that a new commander will make many changes for no reason other than to assert his authority and get people accustomed to following his commands. Some of his commands didn't make a lot of sense, especially changing from three to four shifts because that's a lot of upheaval in a critical time period.
Of course the writers wanted a fight scene, but even a junior Kardassian, would have been able to setup a plan to capture the three of them without any risk. Just turn on a force field to contain them. It wasn't plausible that the Kardassians would simply let Worf and Crusher leave, but they weren't important to the plot anymore.
Once again, an interesting premise and some good points but not nearly as engaging as it should be,