Hi! After reading opinions for a long time, I've realized that some episodes are quite controversial nowadays. For example, Star Trek: Voyager Season 4, Episode 17, "Retrospect," has been compared to the #MeToo movement, with some people criticizing how it "handles rape culture unevenly" (as one IMDb review puts it).
This got me thinking: What other things do you feel Star Trek make wrong?
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In their defence, they explicitly say they are not space military. Everyone else just treats them as such. Just because they've got exploration cruisers armed like warships.
It's not any more or less explodable than the rest of the ship. But we do see a good reason. The main screens on the bridge are physical on most ships. So if the master computer fails, they don't lose visibility completely.
Only if you can power it, and if you can afford to power a replicator, chances are, you can power a phaser enough to be useful, and they're far more versatile devices.
A regular gun using bullets is just a wasteful toy by comparison.
If anything, there's the question if why they didn't just run their phasers at wide beam, and deal with it that way.
There's no good point. From memory, Worf has to dismantle his badge for it, and it doesn't last for very long.
Most people just don't go down where there are bullets flying, and most civilisations use energy weapons like laser cannons.
If bullets were more common, they probably would have them. Similar to why the Borg don't block bullets with their shields.
Why have pockets if you can have everyone look like they're in wetsuits? It's like why no-one has first aid kits, or emergency supplies on them. Who has time for sensibility if you can have the ✨Aesthetique✨?