Some obvious examples
- the holodeck gets a fatal software error and people are stuck in a classic novel
- a shuttle breaks down and crashes into a habitable planet
- the federation loses a space battle, but thankfully there’s some space jungle (nebula, asteroid field, etc) to hide out in, thankfully within sub light distances
When there is radiation, everyone is always totally fine yet the “one minute to lethal exposure” always goes all the way into the last minute. Nobody has any issues before that thought.
All the illnesses, parasites and exposures that happen that they don’t just remove with the beamy thingy.
Even the aliens are very into 20th century Earth stuff, European and USA stuff especially.
All-cabable entities are for some reason petty and mean and super interested in historical Earth stuff.
It would be interesting to see a new Star Trek show explore this phenomena and frame it as human supremacism within the Federation considering they’re the most important founding species. Would be cool if existing shows already explored this but that would be too much to expect from 90s/00s TV.