Stargate physics vs. Star Trek

Star Trek:TNG "A Matter of Time": To save a planet from a nuclear winter effect, the Enterprise fires "ionizing phasers" into the atmosphere, which will burn off the dust around the globe, then shoot a bunch of energy back at the Enterprise, which will absorb it with their shields then fire out into space.

None of this makes any sense whatsoever, nor is any of it based on anything previously established in the Trek universe. Berman and Braga are so incredibly lucky that they had the actors they did, and the state of SF on TV at the time, because TNG was really more of a "space fantasy" show.

OTOH...

Stargate:Atlantis: Given the simple single premise of the Stargate, we get to the intergalactic Stargate matrix - stringing together stargates one after the other to reach from the Pegasus Galaxy to the Milky Way. McKay programs the stargates with a macro to reach a midpoint station, then the rest of the way. The entire thing is elegant and wholly consistent with everything established in the Stargate universe.