Before modification by Isaac at 14/10/2013 11:24:03 PM
I normally engage my suspension of disbelief to just enjoy the show, noise in space doesn't bug me, and I give even ignore the 'exploding consoles' crap or space engagements occurring closer than WWII naval engagements did as visual stimulation for the audience but plots based on junk science or stuff that is just wrong bother me.
A few? Ha! It barely qualifies as science fiction most days. But yeah I love my Trek.
That's definitely reasonable, getting rid of heat is a serious problem... which one would attend to by plastering the hull with radiating fins. I always ignore the cooked alive aspect because unless they're stuff is all 99%+ efficient and dumping into space all the excess heat ought to fry them anytime they do anything. "We freeze really fast because the ship is designed to radiate heat and absurdly fast rate compared to its apparent surface area" is, to me, an acceptable excuse only if they 1) Say that is the case and 2) explain why it was not practical to have that option shut off, and 3) Why the ship doesn't have the massive heat reservoirs you'd expect someone to include on any ship that built up terajoules of energy inside every time it flipped the shields/weapons on and used them so a snot to fry the crew. And 4) Why none of the very obvious and simple extra measures wouldn't be built in to deal with this, even if it was a just the equivalent of caches of bubblewrap with Infrared reflective insides that you could spread over the damn hull.
Consistency is also an issue, like continuity in general, this time we're freezing, this exactly parallel case we're not. At least if some super-tech from an enemy is sucking out the heat, like in B%'s showdown with the Vorlons and Shadows, there's a specific if BS reason for it.
Sure, and everyone gets some leeway for accidents, oops, and artistic license but that can only stretch so far before its just magic. It's like the pinprick leak from a bullet causing everyone to suck out into space when you could just stick your thumb over the thing and have a huge hickey and frostburn if it took someone a while to find some duct tape. Open an airlock or shuttlebay door and yeah you're going flying but there's SF where a fist size whole gets blown in the hull and some poor devil gets sucked onto it then sucked through like they were meat in a sausage maker.