Corrected entry: When talking to Samuel Clemens, Jack London tells him of a dream to visit Alaska. This episode is set in 1889, and Alaska wasn't a state until 1959.
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14th Oct 2021
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
23rd Nov 2019
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
All Good Things... (1) - S7-E25
Corrected entry: On the Pasteur, when Data reports another ship de-cloaking, he says "It's the Enterprise." He uses a contraction rather than saying "it is." Even though it's in the supposed future, many times Data has pointed out he can not use contractions.
Correction: Data's use of contractions in the future demonstrates that he has evolved further towards his goal of being more human.
Correction: As you point out, this is in the future. A future where he has mastered emotions. It's assumed he's overcome the contraction limitation as well.
While I can agree that is possible, I find it a bit unlikely. My reasoning is that this occurred in the possible future presented by Q, because he was taking Picard through time. In Generations, he had taken Soong's original design for the emotion chip and improved it. However, he still was not using contractions.
In the episode DataLore, Wesley realises that Lore has taken Data's place because Lore was using contractions and, as Wesley stated, Data never uses them.
16th May 2017
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
The Royale - S2-E12
Corrected entry: When Data is trying to talk to the elderly lady playing the slots, she is dropping coins and pulling the arm in much too rapid a fashion to allow the wheels to come to a stop. Also, she's continuing the motions as you hear the machine paying out.
Correction: The Royale is not a real place with real people or real slot machines. It was created by an alien race with one dimensional characters and the old woman is just a cliché background character that doesn't interact with anyone. Her actions are completely constant with a poorly written book being interpreted by aliens (such as "an old woman wasting time playing the slots, pulling the handle over and over until she wins and never stopping after.").
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When Picard is first stripped in the office, there is damage on his left chest. Later, Picard looks down at the damage, as if noticing it for the first time. Damage that bad would have been known after it was done.
Correction: The "damage" he looks at was an incision made when he was drugged where they implanted the device, so he wouldn't have noticed it after it was done.
7th Aug 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Assuming he had smooth skin, Data has chest hair visible in a couple of shots.
Correction: It is well established in multiple episodes that Data has body hair. He was created to look as human as possible.
23rd Dec 2014
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
The Best of Both Worlds (1) - S3-E26
Corrected entry: When Riker beams down, his right leg is straight. When he materializes, it's bent.
Correction: We've seen numerous instances on the show where people are able to move during transport. There's an entire episode dedicated to Mr. Barkley's being able to move around inside the transporter beam.
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Correction: But it still existed as a place. It had been known and inhabited and explored for hundreds of years. Somewhere doesn't have to be a US state for someone to want to visit it.
Also, it may not have been a state yet, but it was still an American territory; we purchased it from Russia in 1867.
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This is true. Thank you for the info, I humbly stand corrected.
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