In Star Trek: TNG, they fix most problems by carefully tuning some techno-babble device:
“The frequency is 7.5”
“Almost there! Can we go lower?”
“7.3… 7.1… Fixed!”
So basically, everyone stands around, hanging on the words of a person counting out numbers.
Essentially, the climax of every TNG episode is a Sesame Street sketch with the Count, and they take turns being the Count.
It’s so simple and pure. It’s the platonic ideal of handling tension and stakes in a TV show… just count down until the resolution.
I love it so much.
I still really struggle, like all the time, with understanding how something as perfect and wonderful as Star Trek: TNG can exist… and how, given that it exists, the world that produced it constantly fails to live up to it.