[TheVitaminPress]

I’ve always wanted to to a ST:TNG story where the crew members used to holideck to go to a “Renaissance Fair”. Only it turned out that what they considered to be renaissance culture was the mid 1990’s and so Picard was sipping gin and juice out of a pimp cup, Riker was confessing to Troi on the springer show and Data had turned himself into a Tamagachi. Meanwhile back on the bridge Ensign Everyman had the situation well under control because he had adopted a new ships policy of arbitrarily reversing the polarity at random intervals.

[BradyLS]

That would have been a great episode! I can see it now:

Commander LaForge: "Ensign...Why would you randomly reverse the ship's polarity?"

Ensign Everyman (blinks and thinks for a moment): "Well, Commander LaForge, if it were done regularly, the reversal would have to become a part of the maintenance procedures and schedule for every ship in the fleet. The optimal period for reversal would be different for every every class of ship. Every ship class—and variant—would have to undergo a StarFleet Maintenance Procedures Review and a period of testing before they could do it at all. And that could take years!"