Anybody remember the Nitpickers Guide to TNG that listed inconsistencies and plot holes in every single episode?

No episode was safe!

The book was funny, not mean spirited. Yet it resembled a lot of the bad faith nitpickiness of today used to bash Modern Trek.

Inner Light: Where’s Troi in this episode? She was of service during “Shades of Gray,” informing Pulaski of Riker’s mental state. Why isn’t she up on the bridge?

Darmok: After the attempted rescue of Picard via shuttle fails, Riker orders Data and Troi to find a way to communicate with the Tamarian. Troi wears her gray unitard when Riker puts her on the case. Later we see her and Data working, and she wears her burgundy unitard! In other words, in the middle of this crisis she changed outfits.

8Best of Both Worlds*: And speaking of the famed “You’re in my way” conversation in the turbolift, what is with Shelby, anyway? The Enterprise is hiding inside a nebula and desperately trying to come up with some way to defend against a foe who threatens the entire Federation, and she is worried about her career track? Personally, if I were Shelby I’d be more worried about becoming a Borgette.

Measure of a Man: Bruce Maddox was either a boy genius or doesn’t show his age. Looking approximately thirty-five years old, he claims to have evaluated Data on the android’s entrance to Starfleet Academy. In the episode “Redemption II,” Data states that he has twenty-six years of service to Starfleet. That episode occurs approximately two and one-half years after “The Measure of a Man.” So, at this point, Data has been in Starfleet for about twenty-three and one-half years plus four years at the Academy. Did Maddox actually evaluate Data when he was seven or eight?

Yesterday's Enterprise: Crusher’s tricorder must not be working very well. She walks through the main bridge of the Enterprise-C and soon pronounces that all the bridge crew except Garrett are dead. Yet after the doctor beams away, Castillo, quite alive, digs himself out of the wreckage. The wreckage certainly didn’t seem sufficient to block the sensors.