Regarding the Spock probability reference, I’ve always imagined that TV shows and movies either take place in the parallel universe where very specific events happen to take place (e.g. the universe where the ‘bad guys’ miss the ‘good guys’ with all of their bullets despite being trained soldiers), or in the case of the Enterprise, the camera follows the adventures of the one ship that is super lucky. Perhaps the probability of survival really is 2.234 %, the Enterprise is just the 1 in 1,000 ship that keeps surviving (because who wants the camera to follow those other ships?).
Regarding the Spock probability reference, I’ve always imagined that TV shows and movies either take place in the parallel universe where very specific events happen to take place (e.g. the universe where the ‘bad guys’ miss the ‘good guys’ with all of their bullets despite being trained soldiers), or in the case of the Enterprise, the camera follows the adventures of the one ship that is super lucky. Perhaps the probability of survival really is 2.234 %, the Enterprise is just the 1 in 1,000 ship that keeps surviving (because who wants the camera to follow those other ships?).