Crew: Avast Captain! We are caught in the invisible force-walls of Mime-o-tron! We must escape before the ship is crushed!
Captain: Full speed ahead! Engineering, give us all the thrust you have!
Mime-o-tron: A HA! I laugh at your paltry sub light engines! They have not the power to escape my force walls!
See, this is a *limit*. It doesn't matter if the audience has every watched ST before; its clear that the ship is unable to escape their situation. But us crazy fan people can see that this is a real ship, that isn't able to conjure up any arbitrary capability. To regular viewers, this is a part of the background, another little fact that becomes a part of the bigger picture of the universe. To casual viewers, its just a tense moment. But what it ISN'T, is an obstacle to these casual viewers. They aren't missing anything, the scene still makes sense, but they don't get the depth. So why do B&B think it has to be different? To have continuity is to be consistent, not just constantly re-using terms and situations, as seen in ENT. I'm interested to hear the thoughts of our writing community on this, as I'm not really sure on this sorta thing
