The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After plucking some of her space opium (snakeleaf), Raffi tells Picard "You've got some goddamn nerve", and drops her hands. But in the reverse shot, her hands are back up at waist level. (00:08:35)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the last phase of her conversation with Picard, when she sends him away, Raffi changes position between shots, so her pigtail is on/off her knee. (00:15:30)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Zhaban put in a bag some delicacies for Picard. When he mentions "Madame Arnaud's terrine d'oie" his hand is holding the jar in the first shot, during which you can see his hand turn to hold one of the bag's handles. But in the reverse shot he is still holding the jar, and puts it in the bag. (00:27:10)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Just as the Romulan assassins transport into Dahj's apartment, her boots are lying on the floor beside the table right before they murder Dahj's Xahean boyfriend, but when they walk over to Dahj and slam her head onto the table, her boots are now standing properly upright side-by-side. Additionally, when the assassins place the hood over Dahj's head and she tosses one of them behind the sofa, the three pillar candles to the left have no flames whatsoever, but then all three flames return. (00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: At the reclamation site Soji whispers to the Borg drone, "You are free now, my friend," and then it cuts to Chateau Picard. When Picard opens the desk drawer, in the wide shot he removes the silver box with his left hand and is about to place it atop the desk, but in the next closeup the box is now in Picard's right hand as he sets it down. (00:32:25)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When the hologram is removing the shrapnel from Cristobal 'Chris' Rios' shoulder, he holds the tool at an entirely different angle depending from the shot. (00:20:30)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Dahj's boyfriend stands to go get something from the replicator. Dahj has her hands off camera, but in the wider angle she is leaning against her right arm and has the wine glass lifted, so both should have been visible. (00:04:55)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Dahj is fighting the last remaining assailant on the rooftop. The guy tries to use a rifle on her...swinging it like a mace, for some reason. She disarms him and the rifle falls joining the helmet on the ground. When she picks the weapon up, the helmet is gone. (00:32:30)
Other mistake: The show is supposed to take place in the same timeline as Next Generation, but the presence of a young Guinan in 2024 who has never met Picard before contradicts the TNG Season 5 finale, Time's Arrow, where Picard met Guinan (looking like Whoopi Goldberg, who also appears here) in the XIX century. When asked about this contradiction, show writer Terry Matalas said that the Federation actually never happened since the 'future' was changed by Q's actions, so Picard never traveled back in TNG meeting her. However, that is never referenced in the actual episode or the season finale, and would create other paradoxes, especially since in the very same episode there is a reference to Star Trek IV. The same punk from back then rubs nervously his neck remembering Spock's nerve pinch; the TOS cast would have not visited XX century Earth in the way shown in the movie if the Federation never came into existence.
Plot hole: Mr. Vup is a Beta Annari, and they can, as it is stated (and for comedy purpose stated again) literally "smell" lies. However, Raffi gives Rios a unique concoction that camouflages lies, and it is made of drugs (beta blockers, anxiolytics, benzos). At least two things don't make sense here. First, Picard gets no shot and his whole flamboyant performance is one big lie from beginning to end, but he is not sniffed out - you'd also assume they could easily tell he has both eyes, since they have various detectors. Second, when the substances kick in as Rios is forced to lie openly, even us the audience, as olfactory-impaired as we are, can see he is getting high as a kite from him making a funny face; a species that can detect subtle changes in a metabolism over a simple lie, surely would detect when someone has such a dramatic alteration in front of their eyes - and see that as a telltale sign of something fishy going on.
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In her quarters Soji tells Narek "If you had asked me 5 minutes" etc.; her mundane-looking special necklace pops out of her shirt's collar on her right. After a brief reverse shot when she does move her neck, her necklace is all the way in front of her collar on the left. (00:36:05)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After the action scene at Chateau Picard, we see Soji talking with Ramdha. Ramdha is placing the romulan tarots in configurations not coherent between shots; for instance when Soji says "the pixmit, how do they work?" there's a space she'd wedge the card in, but in the overhead close-up she is putting it to the side of two cards. (00:31:00)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Laris is fixing Picard's tie. In the background a technician from the TV crew passes in front of Zhaban. New shot, with Picard unironically saying "A la guillotine, alors", and the man is passing in front of the Romulan again. (00:11:10)
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the flashback, Jean-Luc Picard walks away from the Federation building and his number 1 Raffi Musiker notices him while she's using the touchpad. She gets up, tablet in her right hand. Next shot and she's running towards him with the tablet in her left hand. (00:02:05)
Remembrance - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: The level of tea in the cups during the hand of poker that opens the series keeps changing between shots. (00:00:50)
Plot hole: In this episode, the 'Watcher' displays the power to possess/mind control people at will, jumping from body to body to set up the meeting with Picard. Forgetting the fact that this usage of power for such a menial task is actually detrimental to what she wants to do (it leaves more evidence, by unnecessarily messing up with minds just to tell the guy to go from A to B), this would have been super-useful for the rest of the season, but she just never ever uses it again, not even a nerfed version of it.
Other mistake: When Tallinn dies, not only she is killed through a neurotoxin made in 2024 by a human, for humans, through a patch that the killer carelessly touches himself (we have to be generous and assume he developed some antidote to it) and somehow they can't cure with their advanced tech, but her eyes become bloodshot with visible red blood vessels. Romulan blood is green.
Chosen answer: My guess is that they go to 1 place and they can't chose where to go. Like a highway without exits, you just end up where the highway stops.
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