Fair point there, but as I was reading what you wrote I thought that it’s ok to make a distinction between making silly stuff up (psychic aliens, magic crystals…) and just plain dropping a clanger in terms of existing knowledge.
For instance there’s the TNG episode where the Enterprise is in dry dock and they’re doing a sweep to remove all baryon particles from the ship. Baryons are a class of particles which includes both protons and neutrons, so I’m not sure what would be left of the Enterprise once they’d all been removed.
