Subject: FAQL: SNAFUs From: Otto Heuer #3 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 06:05:44 GMT Lines: 714 Archive-Name: faql.rec.arts.startrek.snafus STAR TREK SNAFUs (last updated 4 October 1993) This posting is intended to cut down on the "often asked questions" that seem to pop up every few months in the rec.arts.startrek.misc newsgroup about messed up scenes. This FAQL is basically a list of SNAFUs that have been brought up and discussed to death in rec.arts.startrek.misc, and a lot of people would be happy if they never resurfaced. Please refer to the "LIST OF PERIODIC POSINGS TO r.a.s.* NEWSGROUPS" article for a full list of periodic post- ings, and to the "LIST OF ACRONYMS" article for acronyms used in this and other postings. =========================================================================== 1) TOS SNAFUs 2) MOVIES SNAFUs 3) TNG SNAFUs 4) DS9 SNAFUs 5) MISC SNAFUS =========================================================================== 1) TOS SNAFUs: "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. "Charlie X": 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. "City on the Edge of Forever": 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 shelter. Fallout shelters 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). "Court-Martial": 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. "The Enemy Within": When Bad-Kirk demands brandy from McCoy, the closeup show shows him with the Good-Kirk uniform (this one may need to be verified). "The Enemy Within": 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. "The Enemy Within": 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 order of these may be reversed, but the emblem definitely "winks" in and out.) "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. "Return of the Archons": 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! "Return of the Archons": 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. "Shore Leave": 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. "Shore Leave": 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. "Space Seed": 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 Hamilton'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. "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. There were numerous episodes where people's uniforms changed without them leaving a room or turbolift ("Charlie X", "The Enemy Within", and "What Are Little Girls Made of" get mentioned a lot). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) MOVIE SNAFUs: ST:TMP: 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. ST:TMP: Also in this longer video version, Kirk leaves the Enterprise in one spacesuit but retrieves the unconscious Spock in a different one. ST:TMP: 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. ST:TMP: 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. ST2:TWoK: 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". ST2:TWoK: 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. ST2:TWOK: 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. ST5:TFF: When Spock used his ski boots in the turbolift shaft, they went by several decks multiple 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. ST5:TFF: Every time someone mentions marshmallows, they say "marshmellons". In the movie, this does not make sense. If you read the novel, it is explained. ST5:TFF: Not sure if this is really a SNAFU, but where did Uhura find palm leaves on Nimbus III, a desert planet? ST6:TUC: 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. ST6:TUC: When the subspace wave starts shaking the Excelsior, Mr. Valtane (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? :-) ST6:TUC: Uhura's name is spelled "Uhuru" in the closing credits. But then then NN's last name is often spelled incorrectly by Paramount and Creation. ST6:TUC: 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. ST6:TUC: 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..." ST6:TUC: 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. ST6:TUC: 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. The y 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. ST6:TUC: 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. [I don't have a copy of ST6, so I can't verify this--anyone got a tape? --ed] ST6:TUC: 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. ST6:TUC: 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). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) TNG SNAFUs: "Best of Both Worlds II": As the Borg Ship is shown warping towards the 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? "Birthright 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)! "Brothers": Data's password doesn't match what was displayed on the screen. "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. "Conspiracy": Riker says "Mr. LaForge, ahead warp six." Geordi responds with "Aye, sir, full impulse." "Cost of Living": 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. "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). "Datalore": The glass of champagne Lore pours for Data goes flat immediately before Data picks it up thanks to the time that passed between the times the two parts of the scene were filmed (it goes flat as the traveling wipe crosses it). "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. "Disaster": After Geordi depressurizes the bay, you can still *hear* their steps on the floor. 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. "Elementary, Dear Data": Moriarty draws the Enterprise on a piece of paper, and Data immediately proceeds to exit the holodeck holding the piece of holodeck paper. This is in the very episode where the writers "established" that holodeck matter cannot exist outside of the holodeck. Thus, one would think, the paper would lose its cohesion as soon as it exited the holodeck. (Of course, this rule has always been broken/established whenever the writers have felt like it.) "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. "Emissary": Data is playing poker at the start with the bridge crew. The stakes are being raised as they go around the table. Geordi folds, the doc 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": At the end of the episode, Picard tells Tomalak that he'll escort the warbird to the border of the Neutral Zone. The Enterprise then appears to head in the opposite direction the warbird is heading. The Big E may just have been turning to follow, however. "Face of the Enemy": Troi is surgically altered to look like a Romulan, including the short hair style. When Crusher alters 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! :-) "Family": Jack Crusher is shown (not wearing a communicator pin), then they show him again and a comm badge has magically appeared. "Family": Picard's young nephew is shown sitting out at night under a tree, gazing up at the stars and, we presume, dreaming of following in his uncle's footsteps. Clearly visible on the horizon is the constellation Orion. Unfortunately, Orion is only visible in the northern latitudes during the dead of winter, while the episode appears to take place during the summer. Either the 24th century climate engineers have eliminated seasons (to increase crop production?) or somebody goofed up. "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*. "The First Duty": 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. "A Fistful of Datas": When Pa Hollinder talks face to face with his boy in the jail, just as Pa turns away, part of his arm crosses the wipe and, therefore, disappears. This episode also holds the distinction of having the most obvious mannequin stand-in of all Trek episodes. :-) (Young Hollinder in the jail, while Pa, Worf and Troi talk) "Half a Life": Near the end of the episode, you can see the boom micro- phone in the mirror behind Lwaxana twice. "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. "I, Borg": Beverly says, "We don't have designations; we have names..." 3'rd-of-5 (soon to be Hugh) then asks, "Do I have a name?" and they later claim that he never referred to himself as "I". "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*. "Loud as a Whisper": If we go on the assumption that the sign language used by Riva was ASL, then Data was interpreting his "speech" before the words were being signed. "Man of the People": 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. "Man of the People": Amazing how dead hair folicles can change color from grey to brown when Troi de-ages, isn't it? "Man of the People": When Riker drags the aging Troi out of Ten-forward (presumably, therefore, on deck 10) to the turbolift, the lift's door says they're on Deck 8. "Man of the People": Geordi's normal two-solid/one-hollow LCDR pips have been replaced by two *hollow* and one solid. "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. "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. "The Next Phase": 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! "The Next Phase": Phased-Geordi's hand goes through a table, but the phased-Romulan can sit on a chair (that rocks when he gets up)! There are also many complaints about people being able to go right through walls, yet not falling through the floors, and being able to breathe air, etc. "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. "Q Who": 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. "Qpid": Vash is writing this letter to Riker, then she folds it like this: ________________________ | | --- | Riker | --- | | | | | |----------------------| | Sideview: | | | | -> | help | <- | | Text within | | -----------\ | | -----------------------------/ | | | | ------------------------ So that the text is covered completely with the first fold. Then she places the next fold over the first: ------------------------ | | |-> | | <-| | | | | | |----------------------| | /------------ | | | | | ------------\ |-- | | --| \---------------/ ------------------------ Then, when Q enters and finds the letter, he just opens the second fold, but he is holding the letter *upside down*! He starts reading even though the words are not visible to him, because the first fold is still closed. And he knows that the letter is for Riker. Sure, Q knows everything, but why did he have top open it at ALL then? :-) "Rascals": When young-Picard talks to his "dad" (Riker), he says he wants to be able to play games on the computer in "schoolroom 8". Riker manages to free the computer. When Picard views the screen, if you look in the upper left hand corner, it says "classroom 7". Maybe each schoolroom has multiple classrooms, or maybe Picard was using a "fencepost-error" code so the Ferengi wouldn't catch on, but my guess is the continuity people screwed up. "Rascals": When Riker dives to the floor (presumably to avoid the phaser blast) and gives the order to shut the computer down (during which he could have been shot several times), we *hear* the phaser, but don't see it. FX SNAFU. "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. "Remember Me": When everyone has disappeared and Bev 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. "The Royale": The surface temperature of the planet is less than absolute zero. 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). "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. "Ship in a Bottle": 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! :-) "Ship in a Bottle": 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. "Sins of the Father": Worf's old nanny tells Picard that Worf's father was loyal to the Emperor (and yes, it has been verified that he didn't say "Empire"). In "Rightful Heir", we are told that the last Klingon emperor was Kayless, 300 years ago. "Sins of the Father": The sound effects people must have fallen asleep every time someone got slapped. "Skin of Evil": after Riker is sucked into the tar pit, Geordi accidentally drops his phaser half into the pit. They fade to commercial and when they come back, his nice clean phaser is back on his belt. "Suddenly Human": When Jeramiah (sp?) 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. "Suddenly Human": Near the end when Picard brings Jeramiah (sp?) onto the bridge, we don't hear the sound effect of the turbolift doors opening. "Symbiosis": Not really a SNAFU, but since this episode takes place AFTER the death of Tash, we shouldn't really see her waving goodbye as Picard & Bev are leaving the cargo bay heading for the lift at the end of the show. :-) "Timescape": 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 (or was it Crusher?) that he'd find Geordi on the Romulan ship and to beam him directly to sickbay. The Romulan ship is no longer around. "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). "Timescape": 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. "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/min = 3.52 hours 3E8 m/s "Unification II": You can see the reflection of someone's face in the sculpture in an office. The production people were aware of it before the episode finished. The had planned to edit it out for the final print, but TPTB thought it would cost too much and that "no one would notice". Yeah. Right. In "Star Trek"... "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. "Violations": Troi and Tarmin enter 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". "Yesterday's Enterprise": The last scene when Guinan sits down with Geordi and asks him to tell her about Tasha Yar, La Forge is wearing a uniform from the alternate timeline. You can see the black cuffs on the sleeves. Just as with TOS, there are numerous episodes where the costumes change without the scene changing, as well as the number of pips (insignia) on the shoulders changing ("Disaster", "Cost of Living", etc.) The original sequence during the opening credits had the lighting wrong for Saturn (in relation to the side the sun was on). When told of the error, they changed it, but it was still wrong. They finally got rid of the "solar system" opening and switched to a comet (but put in a ringed planet just to say "UP YOURS" to all the people who had been complaining. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) DS9 SNAFUs: "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. "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. "Dramatis Personae": 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*. "Dramatis Personae": 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. "The Forsaken": 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. ;-) The comet tail in the opening sequence of DS9 is facing the wrong way given the lighting on the station itself. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) MISC SNAFUs: "TNG Tech Manual": on page seven, the line drawing of the Enterprise is the mirror image of what it should be. Shuttlebay 3 (the wide bay) should be on the right hand side and Shuttlebay 2 (the narrow bay). The descriptions, however, point to the correct relative positions. This has been confirmed with the onscreen image of the Enterprise and the other drawings throughout the manual. The drawing on page 20 is similarly reversed. "Mr. Scott's Guide the the Starship Enterprise": There is a picture of a hallway UPSIDE DOWN. "Mr. Scott's Guide the the Starship Enterprise": One of the photos of a console from the 1701-A (as seen at the end of ST4:TVH) is a negative. The photo on the cover of the DS9 "Emissary" novel, put out by Pocket books, is REVERSED. Notice the com-badges. Odo's and Kira's are on their left (on the show it is the right, at least for Odo, can't remember Kira's), Dax and Dr. Bashir have theirs no the right (should be the left. You can't see Sisko's or O'Brien's badges. The TNG Companion has at least one photo that is reversed. The picture for "Datalore" on page 46 is reversed (look at the comm badges). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know of any other topics that should be included in this list, feel free to email me at one of the addresses below. Be aware that about 10% of the mail I send out bounces, so if you don't get a reply from me, it isn't because I'm ignoring you. :-) --Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer _____ _________ _ _____ _____ _____ _____ | ___|| _______|| | Otto E. 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