Talk:Clues
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[edit] "Plot Hole"
Current version as I write this says:
- There is a major plot hole in this episode. At the end of the episode, the crew's memory of the last couple days is erased, Data is told not to tell them anything about the incident, the computers are adjusted to remove any information about the time lost and the ship's chronometers are reset to reflect only 30 minutes of lost time. However, when the ship evetually syncs with a federation time beakon they would find that they were off by a couple days and thus the investigation would start all over again.
This is not really a problem, as in the Star Trek universe, wormholes can be a form of time-travel. I'm not sure how best to write this explaination in an encyclopedic way, hence putting the comment here and not on the page itself. Whitepaw 11:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Although this wasn't gone into in detail in the episode, I would assume that a group of people as intellegent as the Enterprise crew would forsee this very predictable problem with thier plan and find a way to deal with it while they are working to cover up the other clues. I'm removing tthe note from the episode. Wikidenizen 15:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
In addition, why would the aliens not also erase the memory of detecting a class M planet in the first place.
Whitepaw - I noticed a simliar problem at the start. Data reccomends synchronising the ships internal chronometer with the nearest starbase. Wouldn't anyone notice the date changing as well? Can you give an example of an episode where a wormhole is used for timetravel? Wikidenizen - They couldn't wipe the memory of the planet because that was the reason they moved far enough into the system to be affected by the 'wormhole.' SuperlativeHors 05:41, 17 March 2008
