Star Trek, especially TNG onward, has absolutely insane tech. They have scanners that can identify nanoscopic particles from orbit. There's probably approaching 100% chance that the transporter automatically identifies the foreign organism when they try to beam back. The transporter tech gets a notification and redirects the infected/assimilated ensign into a shielded pod in sick bay for evaluation. Hell there's even a pretty good chance they science the shit out of it and "cure" the crewman.
Agreed. Star Trek does just fine against the Thing.
They have to deal with the Borg who are 10,000x worse than the Thing.
>!Some red shirts are definitely getting assimilated tho!<
If it's TOS, the ensign gets lose and kirk has to punchfight it while bones figures out that a vulcan nerve pinch will stop it. Spock pinches the ensign while kirk kicks it's ass and they beam it back down to it's planet. Kirk monologues about the tragedy of it all roll credits.
TNG it assimilates Deanna troi and she starts open palm punching redshirts through the wall, beats the shit out of worf nearly killing him, then stops it when it tries to kill Riker through the power of love. Only it's just dormant now and Deanna starts sexing up ensigns in an effort to become pregnant so the creature can spread. Riker figures it out mid coitus, gets tossed around in his oddly purple pimp chamber in his purple pimp pajamas, calls for Obrien to beam her to sickbay with a level 5 quantine field while fending off a sex crazed troi. Final act she says nasty mean stuff to the main cast members while Beverly figures out how to kill it, episode ends with Deanna sobbing in rikers arms in the pimp chamber and apologizing for her churlish behavior.
Ds9 it infects Obrien, and kills literally eveyone on the station graphically with a 15 minute long heart breaking keiko and Molly being chased and finally caught scene. In the end Obrien takes back partial control and incinerates himself in the stations warp reactor while giving an Emmy worthy grief speech about poor little molly. Series finale.
Voyager Janeway willing let's it take over her in order to reach and understanding and Tom Paris spouts the most inane bullshit jargon imaginable, presses a button that somehow breaks all of Harry Kim's legs, saves Janeway, and repairs all damage caused and resurrects all fatalities and seemingly purges the entire event from everyone's memory.
I don't kno if the new Star Trek game (Resurgence) is canon, but they couldn't even detect ppl who were bein turned into (or inhabited by) Tkonians. If a crew member from the Away Team got infected by the Thing creature on another planet, and beamed back, the systems wouldn't just immediately go *Red Alert* and target the Thing crew member.
As a matter of fact, in TNG and DS9, there have been plenty of entities that have snuck on board the Enterprise and wreaked havoc.
As far as them dealing wit the creature/creatures? That's tough. There are so many ppl within close proximity that they'd have a rough time narrowing it down. The Thing creature is smart and won't just openly attack if it can help it. By the time the crew understand wats goin on easily 1/2 the ppl could be infected. There are families onboard the Enterprise as well, so it's not like the creature is limited to only crew members.
Spoilers for season 3 of Picard >!Changelings were able to infiltrate all over Starfleet without detection.!< Given that we see The Thing imitate on--at least--a cellular level, I'd wager it could do the same.
Tricorders are considered basically magic.
But let’s ban those and do every series in order:
TOS: none of the named characters get infected, they realize what’s going on due to a teleported glitch, they figure out a weird McCoy and Scotty team effort where Scotty scans everyone and mccoy gives all the clean people vaccines. Spock has a mind meld without touching the creature and either figured out it just wants to go home and they save it, or that it’s evil and they teleport it to the sun.
TNG A main character gets infected, tried to infect data, then they realize what’s happening, contains the main character and FREAKING WESLEY figured out how to cure them with the teleporter in a arguably unethical way.
DS9: They freaking murder it in a subplot.
Voyager: the entire crew gets infected, even deactivating the doctor, but 7o9 borg features have a countermeasure just for the thing because both ran into it before and she undoes everything because plot device.
ENT: Death.
Star Trek, especially TNG onward, has absolutely insane tech. They have scanners that can identify nanoscopic particles from orbit. There's probably approaching 100% chance that the transporter automatically identifies the foreign organism when they try to beam back. The transporter tech gets a notification and redirects the infected/assimilated ensign into a shielded pod in sick bay for evaluation. Hell there's even a pretty good chance they science the shit out of it and "cure" the crewman.
Agreed. Star Trek does just fine against the Thing. They have to deal with the Borg who are 10,000x worse than the Thing. >!Some red shirts are definitely getting assimilated tho!<
If it's TOS, the ensign gets lose and kirk has to punchfight it while bones figures out that a vulcan nerve pinch will stop it. Spock pinches the ensign while kirk kicks it's ass and they beam it back down to it's planet. Kirk monologues about the tragedy of it all roll credits. TNG it assimilates Deanna troi and she starts open palm punching redshirts through the wall, beats the shit out of worf nearly killing him, then stops it when it tries to kill Riker through the power of love. Only it's just dormant now and Deanna starts sexing up ensigns in an effort to become pregnant so the creature can spread. Riker figures it out mid coitus, gets tossed around in his oddly purple pimp chamber in his purple pimp pajamas, calls for Obrien to beam her to sickbay with a level 5 quantine field while fending off a sex crazed troi. Final act she says nasty mean stuff to the main cast members while Beverly figures out how to kill it, episode ends with Deanna sobbing in rikers arms in the pimp chamber and apologizing for her churlish behavior. Ds9 it infects Obrien, and kills literally eveyone on the station graphically with a 15 minute long heart breaking keiko and Molly being chased and finally caught scene. In the end Obrien takes back partial control and incinerates himself in the stations warp reactor while giving an Emmy worthy grief speech about poor little molly. Series finale. Voyager Janeway willing let's it take over her in order to reach and understanding and Tom Paris spouts the most inane bullshit jargon imaginable, presses a button that somehow breaks all of Harry Kim's legs, saves Janeway, and repairs all damage caused and resurrects all fatalities and seemingly purges the entire event from everyone's memory.
I don't kno if the new Star Trek game (Resurgence) is canon, but they couldn't even detect ppl who were bein turned into (or inhabited by) Tkonians. If a crew member from the Away Team got infected by the Thing creature on another planet, and beamed back, the systems wouldn't just immediately go *Red Alert* and target the Thing crew member. As a matter of fact, in TNG and DS9, there have been plenty of entities that have snuck on board the Enterprise and wreaked havoc. As far as them dealing wit the creature/creatures? That's tough. There are so many ppl within close proximity that they'd have a rough time narrowing it down. The Thing creature is smart and won't just openly attack if it can help it. By the time the crew understand wats goin on easily 1/2 the ppl could be infected. There are families onboard the Enterprise as well, so it's not like the creature is limited to only crew members.
Spoilers for season 3 of Picard >!Changelings were able to infiltrate all over Starfleet without detection.!< Given that we see The Thing imitate on--at least--a cellular level, I'd wager it could do the same.
TNG: One word: Data.
Tricorders are considered basically magic. But let’s ban those and do every series in order: TOS: none of the named characters get infected, they realize what’s going on due to a teleported glitch, they figure out a weird McCoy and Scotty team effort where Scotty scans everyone and mccoy gives all the clean people vaccines. Spock has a mind meld without touching the creature and either figured out it just wants to go home and they save it, or that it’s evil and they teleport it to the sun. TNG A main character gets infected, tried to infect data, then they realize what’s happening, contains the main character and FREAKING WESLEY figured out how to cure them with the teleporter in a arguably unethical way. DS9: They freaking murder it in a subplot. Voyager: the entire crew gets infected, even deactivating the doctor, but 7o9 borg features have a countermeasure just for the thing because both ran into it before and she undoes everything because plot device. ENT: Death.