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TOS Snafus
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The Netpicker's Guide to St:Gen
The Apple: Near the end of the show, when the Big-E fails to break free of the tractor beam, Scotty falls against the captain's chair and one of the floorboards comes up off the floor.
Assignment Earth: Kirk (in the briefing room) has Scotty on the tabletop viewscreen. Scotty (in Engineering) gives Kirk a report. Kirk ends the transmission with Kirk out and reaches to turn off the viewscreen but the viewscreen turns off before Kirk switches it off. AI at its finest, eh?
By Any Other Name: In one scene Spock was talking with out moving his lips. It occurs when Spock and the Kelvin Rojan are playing chess and they are discussing Rojan's response to Kirk kissing the Kelvin woman Kelinda. Initially we see the two characters playing chess and talking, but the view then switches to close ups of each person's face as they talk. When Spock says the line "Captain Kirk seems find her quite attractive" he looks as if he is thinking about something, but does not say anything. Must be telepathy.
Charlie X: Uhura started singing in the rec room. Kirk (wearing his gold captains shirt with a black collar) is with Charlie when he gets a message to come up to the bridge. Jim and Charlie get into the turbolift. When they arrive on the bridge, Jim is wearing his green open necked captain's shirt. Also in this episode, we see Charlie lying down flat on the medical exam bed, pushing those exercise blocks with his legs. McCoy smiles and looks up at the medical readout console above the bed and Charlie's unexerted face is reflected in it at an impossible angle.
City on the Edge of Forever: Kirk mentions Orion's beLt. and points to it in the sky. Orion should not be visible in the night sky at that time of year (according to a calendar shown on a wall) in the US in that year. Also, in the panning shot of the city where a bunch of brick buildings are shown, there is a radiation trident on a sign on a wall, which normally signifies a fallout sheLt.er. Fallout sheLt.ers shouldn't exist for *years*.
The Cloud Minders: When Kirk and Spock are first captured by the miners, Kirk says something like "What is the meaning of this attack", but his mouth doesn't move.
Court-Martial: Kirk says "Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory sensor. It can, in effect, hear sounds. By installing a booster we can increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power" (which the writers seemed to think sounded more impressive than "one") (and we just have to assume that the voices were masked out like the heartbeats and other ship noises were). And, at the end when Kirk is fighting Finney, Kirk's shirt is ripped at his right shoulder but his stunt double's shirt is obviously undamaged in that area.
The Enemy Within: Bad-Kirk's scratch on his face switches sides. Also, when Bad-Kirk demands brandy from McCoy, the closeup show shows him with the Good-Kirk uniform. And, when Good-Kirk is holding bad Kirk on the transporter pad, his hands are touching. Then he talks to Spock and his hands are apart. After that, a longshot shows his hands touching again. When he's on the planet, Kirk's gold shirt has the usual emblem on. When he beams back aboard, the emblem is missing. He swoons, and Scotty helps him out of the transporter room. After the break, we see Scotty and Kirk in the corridor, and the emblem is back.
The Lights of Zetar: Kirk has Romaine put into the pressure chamber and increases the pressure one atmosphere per second. At that rate, she'd have been crushed like a bug in under a minute.
Mudd's Women: When the women are first beamed up to the Enterprise , it flashes back and forth between the women and Scott, Spock, and McCoy. If you watch it carefully, you will see that they spliced in a scene of McCoy standing in sick bay smiling, and he is wearing a different uniform and has the medical scanner behind him.
Operation: Annihilate!: In a well-known Star Trek outtake (which you can see on the blooper tapes), the amoeba-creature accidentally hits Spock's rear end instead of his back. This scene was re-filmed for the episode as aired.
A Piece of the Action: When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy first beam down to the planet, a long shot shows the three of them approaching a bench. Kirk puts him hand on the bench and McCoy is behind him. A closer shot follows that shows McCoy standing behind the bench and then Kirk walks into the shot, behind McCoy, and then arrives at the bench.
Return of the Archons: When the landing party is hemmed in by Landru's legions at both ends of an alley, Kirk orders them to fire (on stun). McCoy's phaser appears not to fire at all. I suppose animation forgot to do the effect. In addition, when Kirk's landing party starts running from the festival, a quick shot shows a rock BOUNCING off the head of one of the landing party members and up into the air. Now THAT'S a thick head! Also, when the landing party arrive at the hotel, it is daylight. Kirk talks a few minutes and then the landing party is escorted to their room. The owner opens a window and it is now pitch black outside. This planet might have a short day/night cycle, but their clock system seemed to be pretty close to that of the Earth's.
Shore Leave: The yeoman gets her uniform torn by Don Juan, and then changes into the 'princess' costume. When she changes back into her uniform again, it has miraculously been repaired. The rip also switches from her right shoulder to her left shoulder. Also, Spock and Kirk are discussing the tiger that was seen and it appears. BUT it clearly has a chain around its neck and when it gets up, the chain is clearly seen to extend toward the ground. In the scene where the caretaker appears for the first time, you can see the shadow of a boom pass across the tree in the middle of the screen.
Space Seed: As Kirk is bashing in Khan's glass coffin, his phaser falls off his beLt.. McCoy keeps looking down at it, like he's wondering when they're going to yell 'cut' so they can re-shoot the scene. They never did re-shoot because they didn't want to invest in more glass. later, during the hearing at the end, when Kirk rings the ship's bell, watch McCoy closely. He has a strained, silly grin on his face, as if DeForest Kelley is desperately trying to keep from bursting out laughing. As Kirk finishes the last ring, McCoy sighs, as if in relief, and assumes a more appropriate expression.
The Squire of Gothos: Trelane sees Earth history 900 years late, but since he talks of Alexander HamiLt.on's death (1804) and of how he admires Napoleon (whose reign started in 1804). This would put the episode sometime just after 2704. This is more than four centuries too late. It is possible to give the writers some leeway here since I don't think they had decided on what year TOS was to be set in yet.
The Ultimate Computer: Spock and Scotty are in the Jefferies tube and Kirk and the scientist are below looking at what they are doing. Kirk is restraining the scientist. From the top view, Kirk is holding him by his arm. The shot from the floor shows Kirk's arm around his head.
ST: The Motion Picture: You can see the ceiling of the stage they were shooting at in at least one of the scenes with the Enterprise. These scenes are in the extended video version when Kirk leaves the Enterprise in pursuit of Spock. A portion of the Enterprise hull and airlock was buiLt. for the scene. A matte painting was to augment this scene, but since all of the scenes of Kirk and Spock inside Vejur were rewritten or cut from the theatrical version, it was never commissioned. Also in this longer video version, Kirk leaves the Enterprise in one spacesuit but retrieves the unconscious Spock in a different one. An external view of Kirk's travel pod in the space dock shows it passing between a spotlight that is illuminating the secondary hull. The spot illuminates the travel pod as it passes through it, but the travel pod doesn't cast a shadow on the Enterprise. Last scene on the bridge shows Spock and McCoy wearing their jackets. A stripe on the sleeve color codes the departments: Spock wearing orange for science and McCoy green for medicine. The final scene shows that McCoy and Spock switched jackets, where they were wearing the correct ones in the previous scene.
ST II: The Wrath of Khan: When Khan comforts his fallen comrade (the guy with the blond hair) you can see that guy closed his eyes even though he is "dead".When Kirk, McCoy, and Saavik beam aboard Regula 1, Kirk orders phasers on stun. It appears that Kirk and Saavik each have their respective phasers set correctly, as indicated by a single glowing light. McCoy, though, seems to have his set to kill, with all the lights blinking in sequence, through the cycle. I imagine this is the kill setting, as Capt. Terrell's phaser behaves similarly before he kills an unfortunate Genesis project scientist and finally himself. Saavik refers to the Gamma Hydra system, and a few minutes later Klingon warships attack. In "The Deadly Years" from TOS we are told that the Gamma Hydra system borders on Romulan space. Either (1) the Klingons won it in a war or trade, (2) the system is where Klingon, Romulan, and Federation space intersect, (3) The Romulans allow Klingons to patrol their space, (4) the continuity people screwed up.
ST V: The Final Frontier: When Spock used his ski boots in the turbolift shaft, they went by several decks muLt.iple times, most notable - deck 52 (52 cards in a deck). Also, the highest numbered deck is more than the number of decks the big E has. In fact, they had the decks numbered the wrong way. Deck one is supposed to be at the top. Every time someone mentions marshmallows, they say "marshmellons". In the movie, this does not make sense. If you read the novel, it is explained.Where did Uhura find palm leaves on Nimbus III, a desert planet? I don't recall there being replicators on shuttles back then…
ST VI: The Undiscovered Country: Sulu's coffee cup breaks, but is back on the table (unbroken) in the next scene. They may have fixed this for the video release.When the subspace wave starts shaking the Excelsior, Mr. VaLt.ane (Science Officer) is next to Sulu's seat giving a report. When they show the science station, he's sitting down at station. When they go back to the whole bridge shot, you can see him moving from Sulu's seat to station. Looks like a scene got put in out of sequence, eh? The cloaked bird of prey is defeated by a gas-seeking torpedo - Lt. Uhura having suggested the use of "the equipment we're carrying to chart gaseous planetary anomolies". At the beginning of the film, it is the Excelsior which is carrying this equipment, not the Enterprise. In fact, the Enterprise is in space dock when Kirk et.al. first set off. This was explained by the producers as a mistake that wasn't caught until the movie was nearly released, and it was too late to fix it, so they just left it in, figuring that the nit-pickers could rationalize a way around the problem. When Kirk is recording the log entry that will be used against him in court, he says (re Klingons): "I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. Later, at the trial when it is played back it says "I have never been able to forgive them... The only explanation USENETters were able to come up with was that what we heard had been translated into Klingon, and then back again. In TNG "Birthright II" Kahless overflowed some ocean with his tears (according to Klingon legend). But in ST6:TUC, Spock states that Klingons have no tear ducts. One of the other Klingons did say that it was impossible (most likely referring to the amount of tears needed) but it's still a SNAFU. Gorkon's daughter became the chancellor after he died in ST6:TUC. In TNG "Redemption, Part I" Gowron said that women may not serve on the council. They could explain this away by saying that Gorkon's daughter made such a mess of things they banned them, or changed the laws for other reasons. Also, we know from TNG "Unification" that new Klingon governments are fond of rewriting history, so maybe they decided to "selectively forget" her reign. The time at the top of the viewscreen reads "01:18" (I don't recall seconds) when the photon torpedoes were fired at Kronos I. A short bit later, the screen read 01:38. It seems odd the sequence of the assassination took 20 minutes. Sure enough, an even shorter bit later, the time read 01:29. Klingon blood color is inconsistent. They fixed this in the video release by adding footage that explains that this was a human disguised as a Klingon. When Kirk is rolling around in the snow with "himself", they are rolling towards McCoy's feet (perpendicular to McCoy's body), the next shot has them rolling over McCoy coming from his side (parallel to McCoy).
Opening Credits (1st & 2nd Season): During the opening sequence, the graphics show a departure from the Sol system, beginning with Earth with the sun in the background, and featuring fly-bys of Jupiter and Saturn. During this sequence, the camera pans right, and we see sunlight off the left side of Earth and Jupiter, but the right side of Saturn, indicating that Saturn is backlit.
Opening Credits (From Third Season On): During the opening sequence, at the end of the planets, watch closely the starfields. The stars go in two completely different directions. Encounter at Farpoint: The computer, giving Riker directions in order to meet Data on the holodeck, tells him the holodeck is the next door on the right. However, Riker turns left and walks into the holodeck.
The Naked Now: When Troi finds Tasha in her quarters, affected by the intoxication disease and trying on Troi's scarves, she and Tasha hold hands as Tasha tries to grab a scarf from Troi. The camera switches views between Troi and Tasha as they face each other. When facing Troi, Troi is holding Tasha's right hand with her right hand. When facing Tasha, she is holding Tasha's right hand with her left hand. Also, in one of the views, they are holding a scarf, but not in the other. The rights and lefts may be off, but there is definitely a screw-up in the scene.
Code Of Honor: While on the planet, watch Deanna's arms. In the group shots, Deanna's arms are at her sides, while, in the close-ups, her arms are behind her back. During the fight with Yareena, Yar's weapon is on her left hand. However, when Yar beams up with Yareena, the weapon moves to her right hand. I hate to think what else could be rearranged during transport!
The Battle: The Ferengi Daimon raises the shields on the Stargazer, which should prevent transport, yet, right after raising shields, the Daimon beams off the Stargazer. Hide and Q: Shortly after Riker and the bridge crew are teleported to the planet by Q, Data's rank insignia are wrong. He's suddenly a Lt.JG for about three minutes.Datalore: Upon beaming down to the planet's surface, Commander Riker gives the stardate as 4124.5. A little later, Captain Picard gives it as 41242.45. Also, the glass of champagne Lore pours for Data goes flat immediately before Data picks it up thanks to the time that passed between the filming of the scenes. You can see it during the traveling wipe.
Skin Of Evil: When Riker is being pulled into Armus, the away team runs towards Armus. However Geordi drops his phaser into Armus. When Captain Picard beams onto the planet, the away team is standing around calmly, and Geordi's phaser is back in his pocket. (Either the phaser didn't get THAT dirty, or they beamed down another one quickly). Also, the computer-generated picture Worf is looking at within the first minutes of "Skin of Evil" is the very same one you can see twice later: It contains already this graph of Armus' energy-level (or whatever it's meant to represent) with the same ups and downs Troi is causing much later in the show!
We'll Always Have Paris: The Eiffel Tower moves around in the Holodeck.Conspiracy: At the beginning of the episode, while Picard is asleep, Riker tells LaForge to increase speed to Warp 6. Laforge replies, "Aye Sir, full impulse." Elementary, Dear Data: Geordi asks, "What's wrong Data?" Data gives him the page. Geordi says, "Data this is impossible," and he flips the paper over so that it faces the camera. At this point we see the drawing right-side-up, which means that Geordi was looking at it upside down.
Loud As A Whisper: Data has learned sign language and is now interpreting what the mediator is saying. Data quotes the mediator as saying "My friends have died" or something like that, before it is even signed.
The Measure of a Man: In the first third we see the Enterprise circle this *spinning* spacestation, but then, when Picard meets this woman the first time, they stay at the window and you can see the moving Enterprise in front of *motionless* stars. In this episode, Data is shown bending a metal bar. However, the metal bar that Riker places on the JAG officer's desk is not bent in the same manner. In addition, the speed at which the bar is bent should have produced plenty of heat.
The Dauphin: There is a scene where both of the aliens have changed into monsters. First the nanny changes to attack Wesley, then the girl changes. There is a cut, and you see both monsters from a side view. The girl-monster stands in front of a mirror, but you don't see a mirror image. The monsters change back to the human forms and you still cannot see the mirror images. At this time there is a cut again, but you see a similar view of the room and now you can see the mirror image of the girl in the mirror. At the time they copied the monsters on the film, they didn't recognize that there was a mirror in that room.
The Royale: The surface temperature of the planet is less than absolute zero by six degrees Celsius. Also, after they beam the piece of the ship out of orbit, O'Brien and Riker pick it up with their bare hands (coming from space, it should have been close to zero Kelvin itself). Plus, after beaming down, they then scan the atmosphere to see if it's safe to breathe.
Q Who: Q snaps with his fingers to send the Enterprise back to the starting point. The ship then turns around to the left. But look at the view of the stars on the screen: they move from right to left. This is the wrong direction. Worf shoots Borg #1, who falls to the ground, his left arm sprawled over his head and his right leg bent in an awkward position. The camera switches to wide-angle, and in that instant the dead Borg changes his position.
Samaritan Snare: Wesley opens a communications channel and says that Shuttle #2 is ready for takeoff. However, in the following scene, when the shuttle is seen powering up, there is a "01" on the outside of the shuttle. Oops.
Up The Long Ladder: When Riker and his team are overpowered in the clone Prime Minister's office, Riker is rendered unconscious by a phaser set to stun. As he is being dragged off-scene, you see him look up at the camera just as he thinks he is out of the shot. The Emissary: Data is playing poker at the start with the bridge crew. The stakes are being raised as they go around the table. Geordie folds, Dr. Pulaski sees and raises by pushing a stack of coins onto the pot. Long shot: small pot, no stacks. Close up: pot with 3 stacks of coins. Number One sees and moves another stack into the pot. Long shot: original pot, no stacks of coins. Worf wins with 3 aces. Any gambler keeps an eye on the pot; seems the director of TNG doesn't.
The Enemy: Picard says to Tomaluk that he will be escorting the Romulan ship to the Neutral Zone. Yet, in the closing shot, the Enterprise and the Romulan Ship take off in two different directions.
The Price: When the Ferengi Daimon talks to Picard about putting photon torpedoes through the worm hole, he says, "CasuaLt.ies of war, Captain", however, his mouth looks as if he is saying "Picard." Also, when Troi and someone are having dinner, at one point, one of them lifts up a fork and takes a bite, without anything on the fork. Must be a tasty fork!
The Hunted: At the end when the prisoners show up, Danar tells the leader to shoot. Danar shoots the wall behind him and it blasts a hole in the wall. Later scenes show the wall to be undamaged.
Yesterday's Enterprise: At the end of the episode, Geordi talks with Guinan. However, he is wearing an open neck uniform with black cuffs from the aLt.ernate timeline.
Sins of the Father: The sound effects people must have fallen asleep every time someone got slapped. Captain's Holiday: Picard is giving Vash the shovel with the handle pointing towards Picard. Switch to a far shot and the handle is now pointing to Vash.
Tin Man: The Enterprise and the Romulan ship are thrown far away by Tin Man. Wesley said that thev've been thrown "3.8 billion kilometers away". A couple seconds later, the sun goes nova, and they all saw it on the viewscreen. Unless the viewscreen is supposed to have some sort of sensor mechanism that relays events faster than the speed of light would bring the view in, they shouldn't have been able to view the star going nova for three and a half hours (assuming the US definition of "billion"): 3.8E9 km, 1000 m/km, 3600 s/hr = 3.52 hours, 3E8 m/s The Most Toys: When Data is talking to the Enterprise at the start of the episode, he says, "Level 1 precautions for incoming material remain in effect." But when Geordi and Wesley are playing back the tapes later, we hear, "Level 1 precautions remain in effect." Selective recorder?
Sarek: The music recital in this episode contained several errors. First, the quartet seating is towards the audience, not toward each other. Classical music was originally developed with the performers facing each other in order to get visual cues. Performing in front of the audience did not come about until much later. Second, the Allegro is by Brahm's, not Mozart. Third, the Allegro is a sextet, not a quartet. Also, in this story, Geordi and Wesley are setting up this pool, and Wesley says that the temperature is 150 degrees celsius, which is 302 degrees Farenheit. However, there was no obvious radiant heat because Geordi and Wesley stand close to the pool and peer inside.
Best of Both Worlds, Part II: As the Borg Ship is shown warping towards Saturn, the lighting on the planet is from the right, and the Borg ship arrives on the screen from the right, which would indicate that the ship is coming from the same direction as the sun...kind of a round-about way to get to the Earth, eh?
Family: Jack Crusher is shown (not wearing a communicator pin), then they show him again and a comm badge has magically appeared. At the end of the episode, there is a scene of Picard's young nephew, Rene, sitting under a tree and gazing up at the stars (presumably imagining following in his uncle's footsteps). Appearing clearly in the middle of the sky is the constellation Orion. But while the episode appears to be set in the summer months, Orion is only visible in the early evenings in the dead of winter. Either the 24th century terraforming teams have conveniently rearranged Earth's seasons (after all, they did make France look a lot like the Sonoma Valley), or the post-production people goofed up. Brothers: The code which Data gives to lock the Enterprise computer system differs between the spoken version and the version displayed on the screen.
Suddenly Human: When Jeramiah sits down in 10 forward to have a banana split, he is on Wesley's left. Then when Wesley get hit by the ice cream, it comes from Wesley's right. Near the end when Picard brings Jeramiah onto the bridge, we don't hear the sound effect of the turbolift doors opening. Remember Me: Beverly asks the computer to show her "the Universe". The computer then puts out a drawing of the Enterprise that is cropped with a sphere with the portion of the saucer section with the bridge cropped off. In the final act, when Wesley and the Traveler are entering the equations into the computer, watch Wesley's hand. He closes his eyes, and then places his hand on the case, about three inches below the entry pad. While he is making his entries, his hand starts moving up, while the sound effects people keep making the sounds in time. Dr. Crusher enters the turbo lift, in the last act, and ask to go to Engineering. The computer refuses and she says to go anywhere on Deck 36, and the turbolift then goes. The lights of the turbo lift then go down, indicating the lift went up from the bridge. When everyone has disappeared and Beverly comes off the turbolift and down onto the bridge, the cameraman/equipment can be seen in the reflective glass/mirror to the left of the lift. Legacy: During the card trick with Data, Riker's hand keeps on changing position during the trick when the camera switches.
Reunion: After K'Eyhlar dies, Alexander runs away. Worf lets out his primal scream. Then, we see her body being lowered to the floor. As she is finally settled, her eyes flutter open and closed several times (as, presumably, the actress, Suzie Plakson, "gets her bearings"). Also notice that her head is facing towards her left. However, when her body is shown full-on from the perspective of her feet (as Worf tells Alexander to "look at death, and never forget"), her head is facing slightly towards her *RIGHT*, and remains that way for the rest of the scene (a prime example of a scene being shot in several takes with the continuity person being asleep on the job). Also, Dr. Crusher and her aide come from the bedroom, not from the corridor. Maybe they killed her...When Worf kills Duras near the end of the episode the camera shows Duras's dead body and red blood coming from it. This is in conflict with Star Trek VI where the Klingons had pink blood.
Devil's Due: In the TOS episode "Day of the Dove", Captain Kang explicitly remarks that the Klingons have no devil. However, in "Devil's Due", Ardra uses the guise of the Klingon devil, Fekhlar, a creature that consumes the souls of cowards. Clues: Guinan has a cigarette in a holder, which changes length with each camera cut...a common problem in any movie where smoking is portrayed.
Night Terrors: Check out the Brittain's visual log when the captain is going mad, the name of the ship in the log is the USS Brattain, even though the saucer decal reads USS Brittain.
The Nth Degree: In the holodeck scene where Troi attempts to talk Barclay out of the neural net device he has concocted, the holodeck doors don't close properly. A section of light is visible for a minute or more at about waist level.
The Drumhead: After the first hearing with J'Ddan, Worf and J'Ddan leave the hearing room. The doors open, as they are walking though the doorway, the doors start to close, but hesitate, open back up and then close after they leave the doorway. Looks like someone pulled on the rope too soon. Also, Satie says that Captain Picard took command of the Enterprise at Stardate 41162. This is in error...it was 41152.
Half A Life: Near the end of the episode, when Lwaxana Troi is standing next to the mirror and then begins to walk away from it, for a brief instant the boom from the mike is visible in the reflection.
In Theory: In the teaser, Data finishes telling Jenna the reasons why she broke up with Jeff. She and Data then close up the photon torpedo, and she moves off to a control panel. On top of the torpedo rests a black, hand-sized deviceamajig. Data stands up, holding some sensormajig in his left hand. The scene then shifts to Data walking towards Jenna, and the sensormajig is now in his RIGHT hand (with no indication that he ever shifted it there), and Jenna is holding the deviceamajig she left on top of the torpedo (with no indication that she ever went back to get it).
Redemption II: In part one of this story, Worf said that he would be serving on the Bortas. Yet, in this episode, he is serving on the Hectar, with no explanation about the transfer. Also, Picard says to Guinan that Yar died a year prior to Guinan joining the crew. However, "Skin of Evil" was the fourth to last story of the season, and Guinan is first seen in the second season premiere "The Child", suggesting only 3-4 months between the two stories. Picard refers to the battle on Narendra III as taking place 24 years ago to Sela, and 23 years ago to Guinan. But, of course, Guinan senses time differently... When Worf is given his family name back the blood on the knife is red not pink as in Star Trek VI.
Darmok: The very last shot (from outside the ship) shows Picard looking out the windows of his ready room. You can see a reflection in the window of the stars moving. However, they are moving straight toward the window. The ready room on the port side of the ship. The stars should have been moving left to right (from our reflected view).
Ensign Ro: When Ensign Ro takes off her jacket, her communicator is on her jacket. However, when she hands the jacket to the little girl, her communicator jumps to her uniform, with no action of putting the communicator there. Then, when Ro talks with the girl, we sometimes see shots taken from behind the girl, sometimes from behind Ro. On the shots taken from behind the girl, Ro is less crouched, I mean that her head is much higher compared to when she is filmed from behind her.
Silicon Avatar: In the second act, look closely at the tricorder that Dr. Marr holds during the conversation between Dr. Marr and Data. During the conversation, she has her tricorder open. She then closes it, then reopens it, but holds the tricorder UPSIDE DOWN!!!!
Disaster: In the scene where Dr. Crusher and Geordi are evacuating all the air out of the cargo bay, Geordi hits the button that closes the cargo bay. The pushing of the button and resuLt.ing door closing are audible, even though sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. (Probably dramatic reasons) Also, when the ship starts shaking, they cut to Ten Forward, where the stars are shaking right along with the ship. Also, while in the turbo lift, when Picard gives out the pips to the girl, look closely (actully it's fairly obvious once you notice it). Her collar has two small holes where the pips go, before the pips were put on. Either they punched some holes to make it easier to put them on (since the collar looks fairly stiff) or it's a product of having to do the shot in several takes. In the last scene, Picard is leaving the bridge heading for his ready room, the door closes too early, and the sound comes too late.
The Game: When the crew are forcing Wesley to play the game, and Riker is holding his eyes open, Wesley blinks. Unification I: When Dr. Crusher is examining Data in order to prep him (and Picard) for Romulus, she asks if Data's ears are detachable, to which Data says that they are not. Yet, in "Datalore", Data's brother, Lore, is clearly shown without ears. A design change?
Unification II: After Spock, Picard, and Data have knocked out the Romulan guards, and Spock has Sela at gunpoint, Picard has no gun in his hand. After a camera switch, Picard then holds a Romulan "disrupter pistol". A minute later, after a scene with the Enterprise, Picard is still standing in the same place, but with a Romulan "disrupter rifle". After Data gives Sela the famous "Spock Pinch", and when Picard, Data, and Spock leave the room, look at the glass pyramid in Sela's office. There is a reflection of a cameraman chewing gum. New Ground: Alexander states that he was born on stardate 42305. Unless the equivalent of 01000 stardate equals approximately one year, Alexander would be only 2 and a half years old. Also, the creature which Riker saves from the lab is obviously a hand puppet.
Violations: Troi and Tarmin get into the turbolift on Deck 3. Troi orders it to go to Deck 8. When she gets off, the doors close just in front of the camera, clearly showing "Deck 3."
The Masterpiece Society: Geordi states that his VISOR covered the range from 1 Hertz to 1 Terahertz. While this covers radio, microwave, and far infrared frequencies, it does not cover near infrared, visible, uLt.raviolet, x-rays, or gamma rays.
Conundrum: While a record search is performed, Deanna's father was listed as "Alex". However, in "The Child", she named her child after Ian, her father's name. When MacDuff is talking to Picard in Picard's ready room, when Picard goes to the window, all you see in the window is the reflection of Picard and the room behind him (not the stars outside), then, when you see MacDuff, in the reflection, leaving the room behind Picard, when the door opens, you don't see the reflection of the bridge, you see stars. Oops! After Riker's first love scene, a wide-angle-view-pan-to-closeup on the bridge can be seen at the very top of the screen, in the brightly lit area. Shortly afterwards, in the same scene, MacDuff is walking around and up to the tactical station from his chair, and we can see his legs walk next to Worf's. The camera cuts to Worf, and we see MacDuff approaching Worf. Also, Beverly Crusher is listed in the crew manifest as a Lt.. Cmdr, when her actual rank is Commander.
Ethics: When the barrel falls on Worf, a second barrel also falls, and it's lid pops off. However, when Geordi runs over to Worf, the lid is back on the barrel.
Cause and Effect: The first time we see Picard in the Sickbay talking to Geordi and Dr. Crusher, he is wearing his standard uniform, and states he had a feeling of deja vu when he was reading. However, in the next loop, he is shown wearing his grey uniform while reading in his ready room, and when he's in Sickbay, he's also wearing his maroon jacket. (Also recall that in the first loop, when he is talking to Beverly, he is wearing the grey uniform. Thus, the sequence goes: grey -> standard -> grey). Presumably, both instances of this scene happen at the same "time", and since Picard's behavior was not affected until Dr. Crusher contacted him, why is he wearing the standard uniform in one loop, and the grey uniform in the next loop?
The First Duty: About 10 minutes in -- Wes goes to the door. The long shot has him opening the door with his *left hand*. Cut to close up, and the door is being opened with his *right hand*. Also, about 40 minutes in, Wes is talking to [someone] in his quarters. From behind, his hands are in one position, and when we cut to the front, they're in another position, obviously different.
Cost of Living: In the turbolift where Picard and Data got trapped, due to the metal parasites, look closely: Picard, in this scene only, is wearing only three pips. Also, Picard is told that the inertial dampers had failed, after which he orders the Enterprise out of warp. If the inertial dampers had failed, they would have been splattered all over the bridge. Also, when Lwaxana and Alexander are in the mudbath, Alexander is holding an edible glass with a bite in it. One shot shows the bite pointing to the right and another shot shows it pointing to Alexander's left.
Imaginary Friend: Data says something about a lower strand density to the starboard side, and Picard tells him to move towards it, and the view shifts to the exterior of the Enterprise turning *left*. I, Borg: During the first time in the lab, Three of Five asks "Do I have a name?" "I" should not have been used, it should have been "we".
The Next Phase: One of things overlooked is an explanation of why Geordi and Ro are able to breathe or not be able to go through the floors. Oops. There is even a scene where Geordi's hand goes through a table, but another where a phased Romulan can sit in a chair that rocks when he gets up. When the Romulan is fighting with Ro, and LaForge shoves him through the bulkhead, we see the Romulan exit the Enterprise facing us right-side up, but when they show him drifting away into the icy cold of space, he is facing *away* from us right-side up - he's facing the wrong way as he's rotating! Also, Riker starts playing the trombone before his lips reach the mouthpiece.
Time's Arrow: The paper that Data picks up is dated "Sunday, August 11, 1893". Unfortunately, August 11, 1893 was a Friday. Also, during the episode "Clues", Guinan says she was late because she had trouble getting into her dress, yet, in this episode, she is seen wearing a dress.
Realm of Fear: After 4 seasons, Lt.. O'Brien has suddenly lost his normal two pips, replaced by a single hollow pip. Other pip-problems include Lt.. Barclay's single/hollow pips swapping position, as well as having two solid pips when in Troi's office. They probably feLt. that Barclay needed to outrank O'Brien to be able to influence him.
Man Of The People: In Engineering, when Geordi and Beverly were checking out the BiofiLt.er logs from the Dorian, Geordi had two hollow pips and one solid, instead of two solid and one hollow. When Riker and Troi walked out of Ten-Forward (the scene where Troi was wearing that revealing dress), they stepped right into a Turbolift. The sign on the lift's door said "08 Turbolift", indicating they were on Deck 8 instead of Deck 10. Near the end, in Sickbay, when Beverly was reviving Deanna, Deanna's eyes fluttered open a couple of times, and then remained shut. (This is when she still looked old.) ALt.hough I couldn't make out an actual color, it was obvious that Marina didn't have her black contacts in. Picard referred to transporter room 3 *twice* at the crucial time of beaming out the ambassador's aide? He told room 2 to be ready. Transporter room 2 was referred to throughout the episode. This is a relatively trivial point, but a stupid production error none the less.Also, isn't it amazing how dead hair folicles can change color from grey to brown when Troi de-ages, isn't it?
Schisms: When Riker sits down at Conn when the ensign is having trouble navigating, when we see his hands over the console, it is the display for Ops. It was also explained at the end of the episode that the experimenters had homed in on the Enterprise from Geordi modifying the sensors. Yet, Riker began experiencing his chronic insomnia days before Geordi made his modifications. Also, Worf notes that Lt.. Haggerl had just returned to Deck 9, Section 17, yet, seconds later, Dr. Crusher wants a device brought to Deck 9, Section 19.
Rascals: The computer display in the classroom clearly shows "Classroom Seven" on the screen. Yet, when Picard meets Riker, he refers to Classroom Eight. Also, when Keiko gets the coffee, when she picks it up from the replicator, it's in her left hand, yet, in the next scene, it's in her right hand. Also, amazingly, the clothing shrank, but not proportionally, and Guinan's hat and Ro's headband are perfect. When Riker dives to avoid a phaser blast, we *HEAR* the phaser, but do not see it.
A Fistful Of Datas: When Data is being connected to the computer, look at his neck. You can see where the gold makeup ended. Also, when Pa Hollinder talks to the young Hollinder, and Pa turns, his hand gets "cut off" due to the video wipe. Also, while Pa talk with Worf and Troi, take a look at the mannequin stand-in for Young Hollinder.
Chain Of Command: The tunnels were underground, yet, they never once used a flashlight, and there was light down there. Also, when Worf opens up the door that was magnetically sealed, it opened inward like a normal door, yet, when they started to run out, the door slid closed. Trick door?
Ship In A Bottle: When the book is tossed out of the holodeck, it got zapped immediately. This conflicts with "The Big Goodbye", in which the gangsters, when they walked out of the holodeck, they de-rezzed slowly. Also, in "Elementary, Dear Data", there was a sheet of paper which did not de-rez when Picard took it out of the holodeck. Moriarty must have made some programming boo-boos. Also, when Picard walks into the holodeck he is wearing his open coat with the blue shirt, but he walks out wearing his one-piece red shirt. Either he changed his uniform inside the holo-deck and is wearing a holo-shirt (in which case his uniform top should have disappeared when he steps out of the holo-deck at the end of the episode) or they screwed up again! :-) Also, when they cut to a commercial break at the end of the scene where Moriarty tells Picard he has taken over the ship, Picard begins to say something as the screen fades. It's close to the end of the first half of the episode. Finally, it appears that the command "Computer, Freeze Program" doesn't stop flames in a fireplace from flickering, or a clock from ticking...
Face Of The Enemy: When the defector ensign boards the Enterprise, he asks Riker to meet with *CAPTAIN* Picard. When Picard walks to that ensigns quarters, the defector addresses him as *COMMANDER* as if Picard were a Romulan CO. Also, Troi is surgically aLt.ered to look like a Romulan, including the short hair style. When Crusher aLt.ers her back, she has long hair again. So Crusher can accelerate hair growth, the Romulan captor hid her hair, Troi wears a wig, or they messed up *another* scene!
Birthright, Part I: When Data first started painting, you could hear his furious little brushstrokes against the canvas (whish whish whish!). But when he stopped painting and stepped back to view his work, you could *still* hear the brushstrokes (whish whish whish)!
Birthright, Part II: Worf states that Kayhless caused the oceans to overflow with his tears. Slight problem: In Star Trek VI, Spock states that Klingons have no tear ducts.
Rightful Heir: It is stated that there has not been a Klingon Emperor for over 300 years. However, in "Sins of the Father", Worf's nanny states that Worf's father was loyal to the Emperor.
Second Chances: Near the end of the episode Cdr Riker is rescuing Lt. Riker on the edge of the cliff. In one of the long shots, the stunt double dressed as Lt. Riker was wearing a DS9 gold and black uniform tunic, not a TNG tunic. When Lt. Riker then gets his next close-up, he's back in a TNG gold tunic. Somebody in the costuming department wasn't careful that day. If it was one of the early TNG uniforms, though, it could have been bunched up around his shoulders (they tend to do that when your arms are raised), so what the viewer sees is the black undershirt.
Timescape: As Troi enters sickbay for the first time, she scoots past two security officers in mid-stride just before they enter sickbay. Later, as she yanks Beverly out of the way and draw on the Romulan, no security guards enter the room (even though they were scant feet from entering and in the middle of a stride). When Data, Troi and Picard returned to the Enterprise and set time in motion again, Picard was on the bridge. When time started forward again, Picard told Riker that he'd find Geordi on the Romulan ship and to beam him directly to sickbay. The Romulan ship is no longer around. The runabout crew had just suffered a port engine shutdown, due to the effect of the time discontinuity bubbles. Picard tells Data that he is going to check the fuel consumption logs and proceeds to go to another part of the craft. We see a plate of aged fruit as Picard walks in. Notice his right hand as he enters. His fingers are curled inward, shielding his nails from our view. When he sits down at the control panel, he begins to touch the controls with the pads of his fingers. His extra long nails are already clearly visible, moments before he ever reached for the fruit.
Liasons: In the poker scene, when the Ambassador "stole" some of Worf's chips, Worf stated that he saw him steal 2 of his chips, but the cut-a-way shot clearly showed him taking 3.
Gambit II: Worf reports a hit on port nacelle. However, the phaser blast was on the starboard nacelle. Attached: Funny thing, in both Dr. Crusher's quarters and Captain Picard's quarters, the same idential painting are in both quarters.
Force of Nature: In "Phantasms" and several episodes previous, Data's cat, Spot, is referred to as "he". Yet, in this episode, Spot is referred to as "she", and, in "Genesis", is shown having kittens before turning (temporarily), into a Iguana.
Inheritance: In one scene, Juliana is seen stepping onto the transporter pads wearing heels, and arrived on the planet wearing flats. Parallels: In several scenes, Data is seen with having blue eyes instead of the yellowish-grey eyes. Brent forgot his contacts!
Sub Rosa: In the cemetery, Beverly asks Deanna to go with her to the house. Deanna agrees and they walk out of the cemetery. Then Picard begins a discussion with the Governor of the colony. Towards the end of the discussion, when the Governor is explaining about visiting the castle, Deanna walks across the cemetery in the background. (She left with Beverly.) The next scene shows Beverly and Deanna entering the house.
Note: Betazoid's and the Ferengi Mind: In "The Battle" and "The Price", Deanna's is able to sense deception from the Ferengi, and later, used against them. Yet, in "Menage A Troi", the Betazoid Ambassador says that they are unable to read Ferengi minds, a fact later confirmed in "The Loss". Data has suggested that this is due to the Ferengi brain separated in four regions. It should also be noted that Portal was unable to read the Ferengi mind in "The Last Outpost" because the Ferengi mind is somehow shielded. - In "Reunion," Gowron was prepared to offer K'Ehleyr a seat on the Klingon Council for her assistance in getting Picard to quicken the pace of the Rite of Succession. However, in "Redemption," he states to Picard that females are not allowed to serve on that Council. He really wanted that pace quickened.
Opening Credits: The comet tail in the opening sequence of DS9 is facing the wrong way given the lighting on the station itself.
Battle Lines: When the runabout gets shaken around, the front shot shows Sisko sitting beside the religious leader. The side shot shows her behind him.
The Circle: In "The Homecoming", O'Brian informed Kira that the runabouts' transporter could only beam up two people at a time (but they still didn't use it after they had the first few back to the shuttle and the rest were on the way). Then in "The Circle", when the team goes to rescue Kira from the Circle, they beam-up/down about five to six people.
Dramatis Personae: When Sisko and O'Brien got to Airlock 4, they were without their comm badges, which they had discarded earlier. After Odo told everyone to grab on to something and opened the airlock, Sisko had his comm badge on. Then in the next scene cut back to him, he was again without his badge. Also, when Odo opened the cargo bay airlock the air was blowing into his face even though he was facing the airlock. Seems like everyone else had the air blowing at their face regardless of which way they were facing. Air should have been rushing *out*. Another error is with the two other Bajorans mutinying with Kira. First, both are wearing grey uniforms. In the next shot, one is still wearing grey but the other is wearing a *tan* uniform like Odo's.
Emissary: When the station sustains a couple of hits from the Cardassians, there's a scene of what look to be metal girders falling on people on a walkway. In the next scene, someone is hurtling through the air lands on one of the girders -- and crushes it flat.
The Forsaken: Odo and Lwaxana are stuck in Turbolift 7. Later in the episode Sisko's station log says that they are stuck in Turbolift 4. Also, Odo's cycle is 16 hours, though it was given earlier (in "A Man Alone") as 18 hours. Must be due to the 26-hour days there. General: There's all kinds of problems with Odo morphing into things with near-zero mass (like the wine glass that Quark's relative was carrying effortlessly) as well as "what happens to his comm badge when he morphs"-type questions.
Caretaker: The shuttle at the beginning changed from Voyager's number to NCC-1701 and back.
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