So, I am sitting here watching Star Trek: TNG while sewing my costume, and I have come to realize how silly the premise is. So, Broccoli gets the ability to be super smart, and then they come into a situation where they can only survive, down to the second, because of his new smarts. What if he hadn't become a genius? And this happens all the time. The Enterprise doesn't get by on skill, but on pure luck! Constantly! Whether it is Q, the traveler, or whatever. It is only about half the time that they solve a problem from thinking about it and using things they have always had on board.