Things that never happen in Star Trek

  • The Enterprise runs into a mysterious energy field of a type that it has encountered before.
  • The Enterprise goes to check up on a remote outpost of scientists who are all perfectly all right.
  • The Enterprise comes across a Garden-of-Eden-like planet called Paradise, where everyone is happy all the time. However, everything is soon revealed to be exactly as it seems.
  • The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform, which later turns out to be a rather well-known old lifeform, wearing a silly hat.
  • The crew of the Enterprise are struck by a strange alien plague, for which the cure is found in the well-stocked sick-bay.
  • An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to the Enterprise's computer, only to find out that it has forgotten to bring the right leads.
  • A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
  • A power surge on the Bridge fails to electrocute the user of a computer panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge protection feature called a 'fuse'.
  • The Enterprise ferries an alien VIP from one place to another without serious incident.
  • The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence which does not put them on trial.
  • The Enterprise separates as soon as there is any danger.
  • The Enterprise gets involved in an enigmatic, strange, and dangerous situation, and there are no pesky aliens they can blame it on in the end.
  • The Enterprise is captured by a vastly inferior alien intelligence which they easily pacify with candy.
  • The Enterprise is involved in a bizarre time-warp phenomenon, which is in no way connected with the 20th century.
  • Somebody takes out a shuttle and it doesn't explode or crash.
  • A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, and some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to everyone's satisfaction.
  • The shields on the Enterprise stay up during a battle.
  • The Enterprise visits the Klingon Home World on a bright, sunny day
  • An attempt at undermining the Klingon-Federation alliance is discovered without anyone noting that such an attempt, if successful, "would represent a fundamental shift of power throughout the quadrant."
  • A major character spends the entire episode in the Holodeck without a single malfunction trapping him/her there.
  • Picard hears the door chime and doesn't bother to say "Come."
  • Picard doesn't answer a suggestion with "Make it so"!
  • Picard walks up to a replicator and says, "Coke on ice."
  • Counsellor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
  • Mood rings come back in style, jeopardizing Counselor Troi's position.
  • When Worf tells the bridge officers that something is entering visual range no one says "On screen."
  • Worf actually gives another vessel more than 2 seconds to respond to one of the Enterprise's hails.
  • Wesley Crusher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a geek, and consequently has a go at making some friends of his own age for a change.
  • Guinan forgets herself, and breaks into a stand up comedy routine.
  • Data falls in love with the replicator.
  • Kirk (or Riker) falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and isn't tragically separated from her at the end of the episode. [or even: Kirk (or Riker) meets an attractive woman and does not fall in love.]
  • The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less advanced people which is made a great deal easier by the Starfleet Prime Directive.
  • An unknown ensign beams down as part of an away team and lives to tell the tale.
  • Spock or Data is fired from his high-ranking position for not being able to understand the most basic nuances of about one in three sentences that anyone says to him.
  • Kirk gets into a fistfight and doesn't rip his shirt.
  • Kirk doesn't end up kissing the troubled guest-female before she doesn't sacrifice herself for him.
  • Spock isn't the only crew member not affected by new weapon/attack by alien race/etc!! due to his "darn green blood" or "bizarre Vulcan physiology" and thus he cannot save the day.
  • The episode ends without Bones & Kirk laughing at Spock's inability to understand the joke, and he doesn't raise his eybrow.