What continuity errors are there on Voyager?

[F. King Daniel]

Check out the videos in my sig, there are a few Voyager ones included, including one that breaks the entire premise of the show.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Maybe Janeway had told Tom not to bring it up with Harry. Or, as I wrote before, Tom and B'Elanna were polite enough to keep quiet about the dilemma Harry was in.

And Harry really was a player. In the Voyager book "Incident At Arbuk", Tom is interested in a woman, Ensign Marta Dvořák. When Tom finally decides to make his move, he pushed the alarm button at her door and was met by Ensign Dvořák in a white nightgown. When Tom suggested that she would join her for a holodec picnic, she told him that she already had plans for the evening. When Tom looked in the same direction as she looked, he discovered Harry Kim sitting there with a wine glass in his hand. So Paris left and could state that Kim had learned from a master.

Later on, when Tom and Neelix were stranded on "Planet Hell" in "Parturition" after having that famous "spaghetti fight" over Kes, it actually looked like Harry tried to sweep in on Kes too, sitting in her quarters and trying to comfort her while maybe thinking that "if they die on the planet, I might have the chance on you".

A year later, he was furious at Tuvok because he suspected that Tuvok tried to steal his holodeck love Marayna.

And in the book "Marooned" which takes place in November 2373 (Season 3) harry seem to have a very friendly relationship with Ensign Lyssa Campbell.

I'm beginning to think that "young innocent Ensign Kim" wasn't that innocent after all!

It's something the writers should've pushed more of from Harry, and he should've been promoted.

 

[Clym]

biggest WTF!? for me was when Caretaker first aired and there was a black vulcan on board Voyager.

I mean how is that even possible? And with the same facial features and hair of African-American humans? I don't recall there was any suggestion he was half human so it doesn't really make sense. But then one had to suspend your disbelief quite often on Voyager

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ NO reason there can't be racial diversity amongst Vulcans just like there is for humans.

 

[stardream]

Wasn't there a black Romulan on TNG? I'm thinking maybe it was The Pegasus episode?

 

[hux]

Ah yes... But surely a logical race would embrace inter-racial diversity and thousands of years later, there would be neither black nor white Vulcans. Everyone would just be a mixture.

From what we've seen though, white Vulcans marry white Vulcans and black Vulcans marry black Vulcans.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

thousands of years later, there would be neither black nor white Vulcans. Everyone would just be a mixture.

But then there'd be no more diversity...

@stardream: Yes, there was a black Romulan captain in "The Pegasus". And I think the Vulcans seen in ST III (during the fal-tor-pan ceremony) were fairly diverse in terms of race, as well.

 

[hux]

But then there'd be no more diversity

There'd be total diversity. You just wouldn't physically see it.

That's the fundamental flaw in "infinite diversity." Sincerely and blindly pursuing it, would inevitably result in infinite homogeneity (which is presumably why black Vulcans marry black Vulcans... to specifically avoid that)

Seems to me that the Vulcan aim to achieve infinite diversity... requires "limited" combinations.

Infinite diversity in limited combinations isn't as catchy though.

 

[Clym]

Wasn't there a black Romulan on TNG? I'm thinking maybe it was The Pegasus episode?

he was played by a black actor I think but his skin was normal Romulan colour. why did they feel it necessary to 'yellow him up'?

and why didn't they Yellow up Tim Russ?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They didn't "yellow up" the Romulan from TNG. His skin tone was the same as the actor's. All they did was give him pointed ears and "Romulan hair".

 

[Clym]

that's his natural skin tone?

this is him playing a starfleet officer:

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The lighting is different. That alone affects the scene.

Also, you'll notice that the monitor behind Sirol is itself green, that is making people think Sirol's skin is greenish. And the ensign is surrounded by black (the bulkheads and also the top of his uniform) so that makes his skin look darker.

 

[TwoJakes]

From what we've seen though, white Vulcans marry white Vulcans and black Vulcans marry black Vulcans.

On Earth today, most arranged marriages are with not too distant cousins or in the same ethnic/religious community.

(it's only logical)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And perhaps Vulcans - those whose marriages aren't arranged, which I'm sure does happen - have a similar tendency that humans do, to date and marry those of same or similar race.

 

[Clym]

The lighting is different. That alone affects the scene.

Also, you'll notice that the monitor behind Sirol is itself green, that is making people think Sirol's skin is greenish. And the ensign is surrounded by black (the bulkheads and also the top of his uniform) so that makes his skin look darker.

sounds like a lot of excuses. they clearly lightened his skin when he was the Romulan

 

[Nebusj]

That's the fundamental flaw in "infinite diversity." Sincerely and blindly pursuing it, would inevitably result in infinite homogeneity

As long as randomness works the exact opposite way from how it does in the real world, yes.