What always got me was Star Trek's "We've just encountered this anomaly in space; Federation scientists have never gotten past the theoretical stages on this; but we'll figure out a way through it in days/hours."
And how about how one of the most delicate and easy-to-break systems on board the Enterprise were the Holodeck Safety Protocols? Seemed like you could spill coffee on the right point on the deck and take out that circuit...
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