Trek Typos

[ZapBrannigan]

In "A Private Little War," everybody was calling the white ape a Mugatu, but the credits say Gumato:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x19hd/aprivatelittlewarhd1469.jpg

I think the credit was based on a prior draft of the script or something. There's a third variant also: imdb.com lists it as Mugato.

 

[Terok Nor]

John Luke Pickard

 

[Greg Cox]

LeVar Burton

That's his name.

Deforest Kelley

His too, but with a capitalised F.

I confess: I always have to look up the correct spelling of Kelley's name.

 

[Timewalker]

I swear, half the world thinks "Khan" is spelled "Kahn."

And, yeah, "Chekhov" is way too prevalent, too.

And, outside of fandom, "Uhuru" and "Dr. Spock" are pretty common.

There's someone on another forum where we're discussing the coming series who insists on using "Uhuru." He's been corrected a half-dozen times, but keeps doing it (by now it's likely trolling, of course, since he knows it annoys others).

Chapters-Indigo sells some kind of "Dr. Spock" action figure thing, and I have to wonder why they would stock something that is so obviously wrong (it says "Dr." right on the package). Does CBS (or whoever holds the rights to this stuff) let such errors get past them? Or is it some cheap knockoff thing that Chapters-Indigo decided to carry and to hell with whether or not it's really authorized?

Let's not forget vocal typos as well

Star Track

I've seen that in print, as well as "Star Treck."

And pity the poor BABYLON-5 fans who have to learn how to correctly spell the name of that show's creator (which I'm not even going to attempt).

His name is a lot easier to pronounce than spell!

An early fanzine referred to the brand new series as Stark Trek, leaving one to wonder what that was about!

A stroll across the Sahara Desert? Or the oilsands in northern Alberta? Both of those would be stark treks.

As a little kid, I used to think it was Leonard Nimony until I actually read the name more closely.

I read in one of the behind-the-scenes books about a time when Shatner and Nimoy were co-parade marshals. The announcer introduced them as "William Shatner and Leonard Nimsy."

I still see "Nemoy" in less-fannish areas . . . like our local small town newspaper.

There was a villain in the kids' game show "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" called "Knee-moi."

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Reminds me of this episode of Super Friends (my favorite show when I was a kid!) when an evil genius threatens the world with nuclear missiles and kidnaps several of the Super Friends, which he replaces with android duplicates.

Apparently the writers gave him this name as a reference to Captain Nemo, so they added an extra vowel to the end of his name - which became "Captain Nimoy".

 

[FormerLurker]

In "A Private Little War," everybody was calling the white ape a Mugatu, but the credits say Gumato:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x19hd/aprivatelittlewarhd1469.jpg

I think the credit was based on a prior draft of the script or something. There's a third variant also: imdb.com lists it as Mugato.

The shooting script said Gumato, but Shatner refused to say it as written, and because he was the star, everyone said it the way he did. Or so the story goes.

 

[Timewalker]

In "A Private Little War," everybody was calling the white ape a Mugatu, but the credits say Gumato:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x19hd/aprivatelittlewarhd1469.jpg

I think the credit was based on a prior draft of the script or something. There's a third variant also: imdb.com lists it as Mugato.

The shooting script said Gumato, but Shatner refused to say it as written, and because he was the star, everyone said it the way he did. Or so the story goes.

I don't blame him. I'd be willing to bet there were some people there who insisted on rhyming it with "tomato."

 

[LadyT'Anna]

Ha ha, love this thread.

Oh some favorites other posters beat me to:
O'hura
Kahn
Chekhov

and...

James R. Kirk
Mister Solo
Jean Luke
LeVar Burton
Whoopee!
Whorf
K'Lair /Klayhr/Kehehlehehr, etc.
Dukhat (quack quack)
Kristie Alley
Deforest Kelly/Kelley (timber!)
Harley/Harly Ellison
and
Jolene Balock instead of Blalock (conjuring Balok in TOS' The Corbomite Maneuver).

(laughing) And then there was Anton Chekhov, who was an honest-to-goodness, and rather famous, Russian playwright. He wrote The Cherry Orchard (timber! ) among other things. As literate as the TOS writing was, I'm surprised Chekov didn't make an in-universe reference to it.

While writing my novella, I did routine checks for Smock and Sock. Thankfully, neither materialized.

 

[The Wormhole]

Jolene Balock instead of Blalock (conjuring Balok in TOS' The Corbomite Maneuver).

I used to make that mistake a lot back in the day.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

In "A Private Little War," everybody was calling the white ape a Mugatu, but the credits say Gumato:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x19hd/aprivatelittlewarhd1469.jpg

I think the credit was based on a prior draft of the script or something. There's a third variant also: imdb.com lists it as Mugato.

The shooting script said Gumato, but Shatner refused to say it as written, and because he was the star, everyone said it the way he did. Or so the story goes.

I've never heard that version. What I heard was that DeForest Kelley kept accidentally saying "Mugato" instead of "Gumato" while they were on location, so they ended up just changing it. Time is money & all.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mugato

I find the Kelley version a lot easier to believe, considering how he pronounced "Sehlat" differently than everyone else in "Journey to Babel." Things like this happen when you're on a show with a lot of made-up words and everyone memorizes their scripts on their own time.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

In "A Private Little War," everybody was calling the white ape a Mugatu, but the credits say Gumato:

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x19hd/aprivatelittlewarhd1469.jpg

I think the credit was based on a prior draft of the script or something. There's a third variant also: imdb.com lists it as Mugato.

The shooting script said Gumato, but Shatner refused to say it as written, and because he was the star, everyone said it the way he did. Or so the story goes.

I've never heard that version. What I heard was that DeForest Kelley kept accidentally saying "Mugato" instead of "Gumato" while they were on location, so they ended up just changing it. Time is money & all.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mugato

I find the Kelley version a lot easier to believe, considering how he pronounced "Sehlat" differently than everyone else in "Journey to Babel." Things like this happen when you're on a show with a lot of made-up words and everyone memorizes their scripts on their own time.

Indeed. And in my estimation, "Mugato" looks and sounds more natural than "Gumato." I'd say Kelley had the right idea there.

 

[Greg Cox]

I swear, half the world thinks "Khan" is spelled "Kahn."

And, yeah, "Chekhov" is way too prevalent, too.

Stupid real-world spellings of proper names.

I suppose, but you'd think that, when it came to a legendary conqueror from the past, people would make the association with Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, etc.

Not "Kahn" as in Madeleine Kahn.

 

[LadyT'Anna]

I swear, half the world thinks "Khan" is spelled "Kahn."

And, yeah, "Chekhov" is way too prevalent, too.

Stupid real-world spellings of proper names.

I suppose, but you'd think that, when it came to a legendary conqueror from the past, people would make the association with Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, etc.

Not "Kahn" as in Madeleine Kahn.

Sounds like a real Khan-undrum.

 

[Green Shirt]

Not "Kahn" as in Madeleine Kahn.

NOT NOW, Madeleine!!


Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Indeed. And in my estimation, "Mugato" looks and sounds more natural than "Gumato." I'd say Kelley had the right idea there.

I don't think it was a conscious idea so much as it just kept coming out of his mouth that way. But I agree that "Mugato" just rolls off the tongue better.

I suppose, but you'd think that, when it came to a legendary conqueror from the past, people would make the association with Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, etc.

Not "Kahn" as in Madeleine Kahn.

It's twue! It's twue!

 

[eyeresist]

I swear, half the world thinks "Khan" is spelled "Kahn."

And, yeah, "Chekhov" is way too prevalent, too.

Stupid real-world spellings of proper names.

I suppose, but you'd think that, when it came to a legendary conqueror from the past, people would make the association with Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, etc.

Not "Kahn" as in Madeleine Kahn.

In my world, the latter is more noteworthy.


Flames ... on the side of my face ... breathing ... heaving breaths ...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't blame him. I'd be willing to bet there were some people there who insisted on rhyming it with "tomato."

Let's call the whole thing off.

 

[scotpens]

. . . What I heard was that DeForest Kelley kept accidentally saying "Mugato" instead of "Gumato" while they were on location, so they ended up just changing it. Time is money & all.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mugato

I find the Kelley version a lot easier to believe, considering how he pronounced "Sehlat" differently than everyone else in "Journey to Babel." Things like this happen when you're on a show with a lot of made-up words and everyone memorizes their scripts on their own time.

In "The Corbomite Maneuver," Kelley also mispronounced Balok's name to rhyme with "phallic."

 

[Melakon]

In the initial airing of either TNG: The Enemy or TNG: The Masterpiece Society, guest star John Snyder's name was misspelled in the onscreen credits as John Synder. It was corrected by time of rebroadcast.

 

[Drone]

Indeed. And in my estimation, "Mugato" looks and sounds more natural than "Gumato." I'd say Kelley had the right idea there.

Agreed. Gumato sounds like a healthy, but likely less than delicious, health food drink one whips up in a blender.