Moving the goal posts, a favoured tactic of petty managers everywhere.

I needed to see an increase in the number of these episodes.

Yeah more Star Trek. The Enterprise is a work of art.

Thank you, Mr. Spock, for enlightening the crew and the audience at home with your logic.

How does a person come up with an idea for this sort of youtube content? This content is worthy.

Can we just imagine for a moment how wonderful it would be if after we corrected people they would say "yes I need to rethink my actions"?

"We no longer want you to bring us a mere shrubbery. Now cut down the largest tree in the forest with a herring!"

Spock will enlogic this crew of emotional humans if he has to beat that logic into them!

A very common fallacy, well worth highlighting

This is probably the most common fallacy used in arguments. Most folks, however, don't react with understanding the way Sulu did when this is pointed out to them.

Makes logical sense to me that there needs to be more of these little nuggets of common sense being broadcasted...

Thank you.

My wife says this happens all the time in her line of work, but it's not always management but their customers who keep increasing their expectations when their first criteria are met.

It's going to be a great Friday evening now! I love these episodes. Thanks for all the effort in making them.

Great lesson! Love the background!

Dang I wish you’d just make a actual episodes. 😊

Love these! So awesome!!!!

Interesting. I've seen this done many times, but didn't know it was defined as a logical fallacy.

I feel like this one wasn't really about the rhetorical tactic of changing the goal posts, Sulu was changing his demands but he wasn't really using it as the basis of an argument... But I love the whole concept of Spock actually applying logical principles instead of just talking about logic, and running around correcting everyone on their applications of logic. Also I really hope there's one on the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

Great animation, Curt! Are you planning to upload new episodes of Star Trek Animated Series fan film on your channel?

"Mr. Sulu..., you will spend the rest of the week in the Agonizer!!"

TOS Spock should have had dialogue like this.

Nice to see a TAS depiction of Chekov had Filmation included Walter Koenig.

"Two weeks to flatten the curve." 🙄

Sorry, but I think this only barely captures the essence of moving the goalposts. It qualifies in the most technical sense, but there are other dynamics at play in this scenario. Namely, Sulu is Chekov's superior officer and is allowed to change his mind and decide to require a superior navigation course whenever he wants (assuming his own superiors don't overrule him in turn). He still marginally exhibits the fallacy in how he phrased his new orders, but given that that could be addressed simply by Sulu phrasing it as "Yes, Chekov, that is correct, but I've since decided I don't want to risk more than four spatial anomalies, so we'll need a revision to your revision", I don't believe this was the best example.

This is the closest I have ever seen Sulu acting like a prat.

I don't know, it doesn't feel like this captures moving the goalposts. I'd imagine something more like: S: Romulans are completely cowardly. C: I don't know about that; those Romulans in "Balance of Terror" [which I was not in] fought bravely. Their commander was tired of war, but even he wasn't afraid to fight. S: But they use a cloaking device! They won't fight unless they have an unfair advantage! See that? Chekov refuted the original premise pretty successfully, so Sulu shifted to a different claim without admitting that he was wrong.

What was the fallacy of "moving the goalpost" called before goalposts existed?

Spock's time would be better spent figuring out how they wound up in Oregon, rather than pointing out logical fallacies by the crewmen.

This video would be correct if ....

All of the religious apologetics people need to see this.