Nah, Sisko just said Joseph was ill and he felt helpless to do anything. Joseph was ill when he showed up in DS9. He hadn't been back to his doctor in eight months.
Braga simply did not watch the show
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Nah, Sisko just said Joseph was ill and he felt helpless to do anything. Joseph was ill when he showed up in DS9. He hadn't been back to his doctor in eight months.
In the TOS episode "Operation: Annihilate!", Kirk's brother George is killed by the flying pizza bats. Later, in TFF, Spock is sad because his half-brother has died. Kirk says "I lost a brother once. I was lucky; I got him back", obviously alluding the Spock's death in TWOK and return in TSFS.If you want a continuity error try this: In a season 1 episode of Frasier, Martin gives a speech to Frasier and Niles starting with the line "Now, I never had a brother...", but in a season 5 episode we learn that Martin actually does have a brother!And Martin's brother is never mentioned again after that episode!
Kirk just plain forgot about his own flesh & blood brother!
Yeah, Kirk forgetting his own brother in Final Frontier really bugged me. At least Abrams didn't forget about Sam Kirk in the new film!
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At least he called him George, like everyone else did!(at least according to 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' Remember, the android Kirk said "Only you call him Sam.")
The one Jim Kirk called "Johnny" as he drove past...
No, JFK shot himself so that Lister could get a curry. Have you not watched Red Dwarf?
Berman didn't have sex with Jeri Ryan, so us lonely, desperate nerds don't hold the same level of grudge against him as we do Braga. Now, if Berman had been screwing Linda Park on the side I'd be furious and would blame him for the continuity error in Red Dwarf where the time travel device from Out of Time drastically changed in design and abilities when it reappeared in Tikka to Ride.
So did TOS. Of the three, I think Enterprise had the least. In the end, how much does it matter?
And all this time I thought it was the Smoking Man.
Oh my, I didn't know Braga was such a lucky man. You learn something new every day.
MASH is one of my favorite shows, however it is completely ugly with errors.
Dates in time go back and forth. For example, Potter reported for duty in September of 1952, however in an episode several seasons later, the unit had their own mock olympics to commemerate the Summer games which would of occured BEFORE Potter's arrival to the unit.
In the series there were four Christmas episodes, even though the Korean War lasted only three years.
On one episode, they showed Hershey Bars with UPC codes on the back.
The shoes that B.J. wore were from the 1970's.
The pinball machine in the Officers Club did not come out until 1960.
There is a red sign of a medical helicopter unit, which was a real sign from the war, the Vietnam War. Whoops.
On movie night, they showed Godzilla, a movie that came out several years after the Korean War.
Radar's comic books were made after the Korean War. (like in the 1960's)
Hawkeye was originally from Vermont with a sister and parents back home. By the end, there was no sister, the mother died when Hawk was a child and it was merely him and his father, now living in Maine.
Potter's horse at first was a male (the episode where he was given the horse) which changed to a mare.
Potter claimed that Harry S Truman was his commanding officer in WWI even though Truman was in the artillery and Potter was in the infantry, and were from opposite ends of the state of Missouri.
Potter once said that he had a home in Nebraska, which was changed later (for some reason) to Hannibal Missouri. He also said he was a Prespyrterian which was changed (for some reason) to a Methodist.
Hawkeye basically stayed in the same unit for the whole three years which would not happen in real life. Basically a real Army surgeon would get rotated home or another post in months or less.
In Sidney Freedman's first appearance, his name was Milton.
Blake's wife's name was Mildred, later called Lorraine. Potter's wife was then called Mildred.
Father Mulcahey's middle name was changed from Patrick to Francis.
Certain actors were in 1970's mode. Loretta Swit and that huge Loni Anderson hair. Mike Farrell (B.J.'s) cheesy mustache and goofy hat. Almost no men in the service wore mustaches during that period, and especially nothing like that. Not to mention that crazy hat of his.
While waiting for Major Burns (the first episode with David Ogden Stiers, aka Winchester) Potter offers Radar a cigar, in which Radar claims to have never smoked before. He must have forgotten that he used to drink Blake's brandy and smoke his cigars back in Season one (Chief Surgeon Who?). Unlike a lot of the other goofs, the writers wanted to change Radar's character. At first Radar was going to be a bit of a streetwise person and somewhat of a sneak, and the writers that this was bad and basically redeveloped the character's overall personality.
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I think that there were so many continuity errors is that the show had different writers and the mood and tone of the show changed over time. Also, this was the 1970's and early 1980's before the advent of the internet. Some prop person finds an old pinball machine somewhere and thought it would look good and doesn't know the age of what he has. Other things like Godzilla and the UPC codes were somewhat inexcusable.
Dates in time go back and forth. For example, Potter reported for duty in September of 1952, however in an episode several seasons later, the unit had their own mock olympics to commemerate the Summer games which would of occured BEFORE Potter's arrival to the unit.
In the series there were four Christmas episodes, even though the Korean War lasted only three years.
On one episode, they showed Hershey Bars with UPC codes on the back.
The shoes that B.J. wore were from the 1970's.
The pinball machine in the Officers Club did not come out until 1960.
There is a red sign of a medical helicopter unit, which was a real sign from the war, the Vietnam War. Whoops.
On movie night, they showed Godzilla, a movie that came out several years after the Korean War.
Radar's comic books were made after the Korean War. (like in the 1960's)
Hawkeye was originally from Vermont with a sister and parents back home. By the end, there was no sister, the mother died when Hawk was a child and it was merely him and his father, now living in Maine.
Potter's horse at first was a male (the episode where he was given the horse) which changed to a mare.
Potter claimed that Harry S Truman was his commanding officer in WWI even though Truman was in the artillery and Potter was in the infantry, and were from opposite ends of the state of Missouri.
Potter once said that he had a home in Nebraska, which was changed later (for some reason) to Hannibal Missouri. He also said he was a Prespyrterian which was changed (for some reason) to a Methodist.
Hawkeye basically stayed in the same unit for the whole three years which would not happen in real life. Basically a real Army surgeon would get rotated home or another post in months or less.
In Sidney Freedman's first appearance, his name was Milton.
Blake's wife's name was Mildred, later called Lorraine. Potter's wife was then called Mildred.
Father Mulcahey's middle name was changed from Patrick to Francis.
Certain actors were in 1970's mode. Loretta Swit and that huge Loni Anderson hair. Mike Farrell (B.J.'s) cheesy mustache and goofy hat. Almost no men in the service wore mustaches during that period, and especially nothing like that. Not to mention that crazy hat of his.
While waiting for Major Burns (the first episode with David Ogden Stiers, aka Winchester) Potter offers Radar a cigar, in which Radar claims to have never smoked before. He must have forgotten that he used to drink Blake's brandy and smoke his cigars back in Season one (Chief Surgeon Who?). Unlike a lot of the other goofs, the writers wanted to change Radar's character. At first Radar was going to be a bit of a streetwise person and somewhat of a sneak, and the writers that this was bad and basically redeveloped the character's overall personality.
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I think that there were so many continuity errors is that the show had different writers and the mood and tone of the show changed over time. Also, this was the 1970's and early 1980's before the advent of the internet. Some prop person finds an old pinball machine somewhere and thought it would look good and doesn't know the age of what he has. Other things like Godzilla and the UPC codes were somewhat inexcusable.
Continuity errors have been part of Trek since the very beginning. TOS with rife with them. UESPA or Starfleet? Remus or Romii? Khan remembering a guy he'd never met.
DS9 probably had the tightest continuity of the lot, but even there, errors occurred.
DS9 probably had the tightest continuity of the lot, but even there, errors occurred.
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Agreed, I don't think Voyager's continuity flubs were any more grievous, or even more numerous than many of TV's more beloved series.
I think what Trek fans really objected to was the relentlessly episodic format of the stories. And only then because it had just been done to death (TNG) and was in the process of being subverted (Babylon 5).
The irony is - in this era of high-commitment & heavily-serialized viewing, where watching a long term arc is a 50/50 prospect in terms of payoff, Voyager's consequence-free tales seem a lot more palateable!
Agreed, I don't think Voyager's continuity flubs were any more grievous, or even more numerous than many of TV's more beloved series.
I think what Trek fans really objected to was the relentlessly episodic format of the stories. And only then because it had just been done to death (TNG) and was in the process of being subverted (Babylon 5).
The irony is - in this era of high-commitment & heavily-serialized viewing, where watching a long term arc is a 50/50 prospect in terms of payoff, Voyager's consequence-free tales seem a lot more palateable!
Indeed, and once fans started complaining about the endless supply of shuttlecraft, it seemed like the writers made a point of destroying one every time it was featured. Similarly, the number of crewmembers fluctuated up and down beyond the potential for deaths, births (whatever happened to the concept they might need to become a generational ship?). And where did the other Vulcans go when Janeway was hiding the ship's telepaths?
That, and the stupidity of training a Delta Quadrant alien woman with a nine-year lifespan to be the new nurse on a potentially 70-year journey.
Well, they knew from prior experience that other captains made it back home from what should have been long trips in very short time (Kirk and Picard) so they had possible hope they'd find a shortcut too. So that's one strike against the "70 year voyage".
As for Kes, it became a moot point once they found the female Caretaker and her Ocampa. They all live normal lifespans once they developed their powers.
As for Kes, it became a moot point once they found the female Caretaker and her Ocampa. They all live normal lifespans once they developed their powers.
Well, of course, they always knew they were hoping for a shortcut, and found several, but there was certainly no guarantee.
In Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future, author Stephen Poe stated that declining audience figures had led to producers considering canceling the series, and the appearance of Suspiria was created as a "get out clause" if needed.
But revelations that some Ocampa can be long-lived (in "Cold Fire") does not absolve the stupidity and shorsightedness of Kes being trained as the sole nurse on a vessel that may still have 68 years to travel.
Seeing how anybody they trained for that position would likely be dead by the 70 year time-up (of course, they were never serious about that 70 years thing), it's still moot. So she'd be dead in a decade, that's plenty of time to train another. And it's just as likely anyone else trained as a nurse would get killed in a decade as well.
I just let stuff like this slide... It's not possible for every writer to go back and watch every episode before they start the script.
No, they don't.
It was explained Susperia's Ocampa lived longer due to technology she created. Kes in "Fury"& "Before & After" showed Ocampa age at the same rate, with or without their powers
