About some goofs..

[Lynx]

As for goofs, one is definitely Tuvok's rank.

In season 1, he's a Lieutenant Commander in some episodes but at the end of the season he seem to have been demoted to Lieutenant.

Well, here is the explanation:

When Tuvok and Janeway played Ka--Toh and Janeway lost, she got p***ed and demoted him to Lieutenant.

Later on she realized that she couldn't demote him to a lower rank than that because it would undermine his status as Chief Of Security so she found another way to punish him when he defeated her in Kal-Toh:

She started to send him on away missions-with Neelix!

 

[TommyR01D]

Tom Paris's rank also fluctuated. There are some scenes in the first two seasons where he appears as a full lieutenant and others where he is a junior grade.

 

[TwoJakes]

Hansens discover traces of Borg activity only after 8 months of travel into deep space. Isn't it a bit short?

Not if they knew approximately where to look.

I don't think the Hansons knew exactly what they were looking for, they were chasing rumors and third generation folk tales. Initially they didn't even know that it was the Borg they were going after.

 

[MacLeod]

Same with the number of shuttle craft. No matter how many are destroyed and no matter how long it's been since they're visited a Federation facility, ships always have plenty to spare.

The only explanation is that they make their own on-board.

Sorry but don't buy that. If they can't replace something more basic like a Photon torpedeo which is bascially a warp capable ship with a M/AM warhead. How can they replace something more complex like ay a Shuttlecraft.

And the crew count didn't the same it flucated up and down regardless of how many people had been killed.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The B&B device!

The solution is the B&B device, named after two important persons in the 20th century who did foresee the development of the future. THe B&B device is a very small microchip which is attached to the inner ear and which immediately starts when the ship's computer universal translator is unavailable and the combadges are removed or destroyed. In that way, different species can continue to communicate.

Or the Babelfish, or translator microbes...I'm sure there are others I'm missing

Tom Paris's rank also fluctuated. There are some scenes in the first two seasons where he appears as a full lieutenant and others where he is a junior grade.

Through S2, he was a Lt. JG (still called "Lieutenant"). Not sure when/if he gets promoted to full Lt., but then he gets demoted to Ensign after the Waterworld incident (really should have kept his hands inside the log ride), then promoted back to (I'm assuming) Lt. JG. late in the series.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As for goofs, one is definitely Tuvok's rank.

In season 1, he's a Lieutenant Commander in some episodes but at the end of the season he seem to have been demoted to Lieutenant.

Perhaps Tuvok was demoted because of his actions in 'Prime Factors'?

 

[MacLeod]

Well to be fair to VOY, TNG also suffered from wardrobe errors when it came to rank pips, witness O'Brien wearing Lt. pips for most of his apperances.

 

[stardream]

Sorry but don't buy that. If they can't replace something more basic like a Photon torpedeo which is bascially a warp capable ship with a M/AM warhead. How can they replace something more complex like ay a Shuttlecraft.

And the crew count didn't the same it flucated up and down regardless of how many people had been killed.

They made the Delta Flyer which was much more complex than the average shuttlecraft.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

This is wrong.
I dont know what else I can do to repeat it. No, the Voyager Crew-count is not staying the same, and logic in itself. The authors did do some mistakes, sure, but it is not this horrible as alwys told.
Here, click the link, is a fresh updated site about the crew-count (losses + gains) of Voyager:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/voyager-crew.htm

That looks like the number arbitrarily jumped up and down. That's worse than if it did stay exactly the same.

 

[Catarina]

Speaking of Someone to Watch Over Me, Mulgrew didn't question why Jeri was scripted to put on the dropped pip when clearly she had a mirror on her desk. She can't roll her eyes now if people think Janeway was bisexual. That scene dripped innuendo to certain fans who see it that way.

That eye make up she looked clownish in that opening act. The introduction of metallic eye shadow in it's infancy. Very gaudy in the early years of Hollywood use, imo. but that's not an error you speak of, just me nit picking good taste

 

[TonyLeung82]

That looks like the number arbitrarily jumped up and down. That's worse than if it did stay exactly the same.

What do you mean exactly with this statement? Of course the numbers jumps up and down, when people get killed or 5 people from the Equinox join the crew.

 

[MacLeod]

What do you mean exactly with this statement? Of course the numbers jumps up and down, when people get killed or 5 people from the Equinox join the crew.

If you go by the mentioned column it fluctates wildly with little regard for deaths, births or new crew.

Diminishing crew would have an impact on remaining crew as they would have to fufuil those tasks that the pople who had been lost did. Never had someone not turn up for work and have had to make sure their work got down as well as your own, now try doing that for years. It will have an impact on you.

It's just another example of how the writers failed to live up to the premise of the show. The audiance is intelligent, had VOY been set in Federation space none of the issues people have reagarding crew numbers flucating, the ship looking like it had just left Utopia, the limitless supply of shuttles etc.. would be an issue but once you remove that element i.e Federation space they become far more relevant.

Now some of that might be more down to the network rather than the writers. BUt the point remains, great premise poorly executed. VOY did have some great episodes but the show as a whole could have been so much better.

 

[Leno's Chin]

I was going to say that it's best not to dig too deep into thinking about the universal translator, but then I remembered where I was. My thoughts on the UT was that it doesn't specifically translate a set of words or sentences like we would translate text from one book to another, but learns what the base thought trying to be expressed is, and then finds the best set of words in another language to express it. Like when you have a thought or image in your mind, and just can't quite find the words to express it vocally, but it's very clear in your head. I'd imagine the UT has the processing power to find the best way to express that thought, regardless of how the original thought was worded. I'd imagine if the original context had humor involved, it would be clever enough to find a way to incorporate that in some form as well. I try to think of it as a middleman expressing ideas, and not and advanced version of the bing online translator.

(Although bing does Awesomely translate klingon. However brokenly)

It could be that the UT deducts similar patterns of brain waves across species which are associated with expressing a certain thought and has nothing to do with the vocal part of language at all.
\L'sC

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

At the beginning of S4E5 Revulsion, Tuvok is promoted to Lt. Commander. But yeah, early episodes had him with the 3rd, black pip, then later just the 2 gold ones.