What is THE Worst continuity error in Trek history..?!
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Now let's get back to talking about Janeway's...no, let's not....
Cover art by Klaus Voormann, an old friend of theirs from when they were playing clubs in Hamburg.
Now let's get back to talking about Janeway's...no, let's not....
How about a new one. A supposed ship of the future who's purpose is science and discovery. And they can't decide between miles or kilometers.
Spot arbitrarily changing gender near the back end of TNG is probably the worst of it for me. 
(Although smaller little things do niggle me, like Troi saying she's never kissed Riker with a beard in 'Insurrection' when we saw her do it multiple times on the TV show.)
(Although smaller little things do niggle me, like Troi saying she's never kissed Riker with a beard in 'Insurrection' when we saw her do it multiple times on the TV show.)
- No cloaks in the mirror universe according to "The Emperor's New Cloak" but they'd been seen in "Through the Looking Glass".
- Dominion being around for 2000 years in "To the Death" and 10000 years in "The Dogs of War" and back to 2000 years in "What You Leave Behind".
- Section 31 being around for over 300 years as of "Tacking into the Wind", which would put it being founded before 2075 and even Earth Starfleet was only founded in 2130s (according to MA).
- No one knowing what a Breen looks like even though multiple times in the series people were mugging Breen and stealing their outfits.
I wonder if this one could've just been due to an actor having a slip of the tongue and saying "Ten thousand" instead of "Two thousand."
I have no evidence for this. Just idle speculation on my part.
DS9 was always mixing numbers up, like when they referred to the Eugenics Wars as being three hundred years prior instead of four hundred, which Ron Moore admitted was the result of taking 300 reference from TWOK and forgetting to account for an extra hundred years, so the Section 31 flub could be something similar. Although a recent novel has suggested Section 31 has origins rooted in the 20th century US military.
Then read the novel (Elusive Salvation by Dayton Ward).
It could be similar to the band 10000 Maniacs. They named themselves for the lead singer's favorite horror film. Except the film is called 2000 Maniacs.
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Uhura's mind wipe by Nomad.
Did that really happen? In all the subsequent TOS episodes and movies after "The Changeling", Uhura seemed to be the same Uhura as before the mind wipe. It was as though it never happened.
In that episode, McCoy said that Uhura could be reeducated. That may be so, but Uhura's personality could not be replicated. Uhura past experiences and memories shaped the person that she was up until the mind wipe.
The "new" reeducated Uhura would be a completely different person, personality-wise. There is no way to make the new Uhura the same as the old Uhura.
It was ironic that Uhura's mind wipe occurred in "The Changeling" episode. Nomad's collision with the "other" damaged Nomad. The collision altered Nomad's programming. The trauma that happened to Nomad changed its personality, so to speak. Yet, the trauma that Nomad inflicted on Uhura's brain didn't change Uhura at all, beyond that episode.
Maybe the TV viewers were somehow mind wiped after watching that episode, so that no one would notice that nothing had changed; it's just the same old Uhura in every episode and movie thereafter.
Did that really happen? In all the subsequent TOS episodes and movies after "The Changeling", Uhura seemed to be the same Uhura as before the mind wipe. It was as though it never happened.
In that episode, McCoy said that Uhura could be reeducated. That may be so, but Uhura's personality could not be replicated. Uhura past experiences and memories shaped the person that she was up until the mind wipe.
The "new" reeducated Uhura would be a completely different person, personality-wise. There is no way to make the new Uhura the same as the old Uhura.
It was ironic that Uhura's mind wipe occurred in "The Changeling" episode. Nomad's collision with the "other" damaged Nomad. The collision altered Nomad's programming. The trauma that happened to Nomad changed its personality, so to speak. Yet, the trauma that Nomad inflicted on Uhura's brain didn't change Uhura at all, beyond that episode.
Maybe the TV viewers were somehow mind wiped after watching that episode, so that no one would notice that nothing had changed; it's just the same old Uhura in every episode and movie thereafter.
I think I remember reading in DC Comics' Who's Who in Star Trek that Uhura's emotional memories (i.e. her personality) somehow remained intact. Yeah, it doesn't really jibe with what the episode shows us, but it was a decent attempt at patching that continuity error.
It never actually states they only have sex once every seven years, merely that there is a necessity to do it then. Doubtless the rest of the tie they dabble
Yeah, Nomad probably didn't erase Uhura's memory, just put some sort of mental block in her that made her forget. All the crew did was remove that block, maybe by reawakening a memory which caused all the rest of it to flood back.
The problem *I* had with that episode is the fact that Nomad and Tan Ru actually collided in space. That seems VERY unlikely, given how vast space is.
Lots of Star Trek would seem unlikely given how vast space is.
^ True dat.
Much apologizings for getting all Christopher-ially nitpickish.
Much apologizings for getting all Christopher-ially nitpickish.
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