[[ mmHg is a perfectly serviceable unit of measure for atmospheric pressure, and is still used in the 21st Century.]]

WHERE? I haven’t seen it used for years, and it certainly isn’t used in the scientific literature.

To my ST knowledge, the Enterprise-D (NCC-1701-D) from ST:TNG was constructed at Planetia Utopia on Mars. By contrast, I remember Commodore Robert April in “The Counter-Clock Incident” (Animated Series) saying that he was there “at the San Francisco Navy Yards” when the original Enterprise’s “unit components were built.”

I don’t mean to outgeek you, but there it is.

Point. A meaningless point, to be sure, but a technicality which should be acknowledged in case anyone actually cares.

“I can think of an exception — the medical technology. If you remember the episode “Journey to Babel,” they needed a relative of Sarek’s to transfuse blood to the poor guy — apparently the 23rd century hadn’t come up with a blood substitute. ”

Or they didn’t have any blood substitute in stock which was appropriate to Sarek’s physilology. Modern medicine doesn’t have a vulcan blood substitute either, so no points there.

“And I remember Doctor McCoy in another episode giving an atmospheric pressure reading from a tricorder in “millimeters of mercury.” Any climatologist or meteorologist in the 23rd century should be using pascals, or at least millibars.”

Units of measure are not a matter of technological advance. mmHg is a perfectly serviceable unit of measure for atmospheric pressure, and is still used in the 21st Century.

I recall reading a review – I didn’t study the episode in question – where there were -two- folks in red shirt, a woman and a black guy, and the aliens did a thing to them and only the black guy came out alive. I hope I got that straight.

So if you are the -only- red-shirt person in a scene, is when you ask the captain if you can make a phone call to your loved ones. Otherwise, you could be lucky, and you don’t want to reduce your chances by admitting you -have- loved ones. Or plans to quit the service and go into the shoe business. Or musical ability. (Unless you are good at funeral tunes, then you can play out at the end of the show. Picard and Riker, for instance, have those skills.)

[[“Modern technology is actually more advanced than is shown on Star Trek”
Based on what?
” except for the gizmos granted: Warp drive, antigravity, transporter and some medical gadgets.”
Some gizmos? /Everything/ aboard a 23rd-century Starship is more advanced than anything we had in the 80s, and only the most recent advances in 21st-century technology are starting to eclipse some of the less important advances of 24th-Century technology.]]

I can think of an exception — the medical technology. If you remember the episode “Journey to Babel,” they needed a relative of Sarek’s to transfuse blood to the poor guy — apparently the 23rd century hadn’t come up with a blood substitute. And I remember Doctor McCoy in another episode giving an atmospheric pressure reading from a tricorder in “millimeters of mercury.” Any climatologist or meteorologist in the 23rd century should be using pascals, or at least millibars.

Then there’s the fact that soldiers shoot at each other with guns — where are the robot soldiers? How long will human soldiers survive as an institution once governments can field robots that can seek, aim, fire and take down thirty or so opponents every second? The idea of Han Solo getting behind the battle droid in “The Empire Strikes Back” and shooting it while it’s distracted makes for nice special effects, but it isn’t terribly realistic. (Yes, I know we’re discussing Star Trek and not Star Wars. Just making a point about robot soldiers.)