Corrected entry: At the beginning of the episode the bridge crew is looking at the viewing screen as the Defiant draws closer. By the time Capt. Kirk says "The Defiant", it is totally obvious that it's a starship. However, when Kirk says "The Defiant", the bridge crew gives quite a reaction as though they had no idea what this thing shaped a starship was until Kirk clued them in.
johnrosa
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Garth can apparently shapeshift clothes (or he doesn't wear clothes and the "clothing" we see is shapeshifted skin). But when Garth changes from Cory to Garth, a working phaser appears at his holster - where'd it come from? Or how'd he create it?
Correction: The weapon was concealed while in the form of Cory.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - S3-E15
Corrected entry: Kirk says Cheron is in an uncharted region of the galaxy. How does Kirk know about it then? Later Spock identifies its exact position when he says the ship is heading for it. Again, if it's "uncharted" how do they know where it is to figure out this stuff.
Correction: Cheron may be an obvious 'marker', a known distant system that has yet to be charted in detail, but the existence and location of Cheron itself is known, much like knowing the moon was above earth centuries ago, but its details had yet to be charted.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: When they arrived in the system they said they were heading for the sixth planet in the system of Sigma Draconis, but in his captain's log about halfway through the episode, Kirk calls it Sigma Draconis VII.
Correction: Sigma Draconis VI and VII may have orbits that intersect twice, so that, when first discovered and named, SD VII was seventh from the sun, but on this visit, it is 'currently' the sixth. (See "The Wrath of Khan" for the Ceti Alpha V & VI mis-recognition issue for a similar, not identical, situation.)
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
The Gamesters of Triskelion - S2-E16
Corrected entry: For not knowing anything about the concept of "kissing," Shahna reacts just like a normal human would (closes eyes, leans forward, drops her jaw.)
Correction: Purely a reflex, not a mistake. While she may not have done it before, she seems to respond to it just fine. But then, she is a humanoid, so why expect her reflexes to be that different?
28th Mar 2005
Star Trek (1966)
The Trouble With Tribbles - S2-E15
Corrected entry: When Scotty comes into the messhall holding a bundle of Tribbles, you can see that the middle finger of his right hand is missing. (A result of Doohan's WWII D-Day fight; Normally, the show made every attempt to hide this.)
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Kirk switches back and forth between miles and kilometers in this episode (20,000 mile orbit, 200,000 kilometer range of destruction.)
Correction: The distances were described using the system of measure wherein the specific distance can be described by the most round number. Example: If something is 1.1 quarts, he'll just say it's one liter. We can assume humans can handle the conversion in their heads easily in the future.
19th May 2004
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Spock says that they will be unable to close with the Machine because Enterprise's energy cells will draw its attention, but then later he says it ignores ships such as themselves beyond a certain size radius - which is it?
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Correction: ...or they had no idea it was specifically the Defiant, which they may have believed couldn't be there.
johnrosa