Braga simply did not watch the show

[Cyke101]

Braga has many faults, but this isn't one of them. Seriously, no show in the history of the medium has ever gotten continuity 100% right. Hell, Doctor Who outright embraces continuity gaffes, and it's outlasted Star Trek as a TV narrative.

It's pretty telling that he's a producer now for 24, which because of its gimmick, is one of the most continuity-dependent shows on TV ever.

 

[Trek Survivor]

On DS9 in season one or two, Sisko shared a painful story of his father's death. His father appeared on the show a few seasons later.

Time for me to confirm my nerd credentials:

Sisko NEVER shared a painful story of his father's death. The episode you're thinking of was "The Alternate". In it, he relates to Odo how he remembers when his father got really ill, looking so frail... "and then I realised, I couldn't help him anymore."

Clearly the implication is his father died, but knowing what we now know, it's easy just to see this as Sisko being forced to accept that he couldn't help his father get better i.e. he had to do it on his own (the story was told as a comparison to Odo's own "father" Dr. Mora).

 

[Dr. Chandra]

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!

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.

Kirk just plain forgot about his own flesh & blood brother!

No, there's a definite and meaningful pause before Kirk says he got his "brother" back - clearly we're supposed to think of Sam first. ISTR it says that in the novelization also.

Possibly, but I didn't catch that he was considering his brother. Anyway, as stated earlier, this is the VOY forum so I'll drop the TOS stuff.

 

[Broccoli]

Remember when DS9 got the date for Eugenics Wars wrong?


Braga was behind that.

 

[Bones2]

He's also responsible for Spock's smiling and haircut in The Cage. He's probably responsible for finding the old tapes and canonising it.

...no, I can't think of anything funny.

On a serious note though, he did write Cause and Effect, which of course had Captain Frasier. Coincidence?

 

[Cyke101]

He's also responsible for Spock's smiling and haircut in The Cage. He's probably responsible for finding the old tapes and canonising it.

Braga was also behind early Spock's CONSTANT SHOUTING. Everything else is thus forgiven.

 

[T'Girl]

There are numerous timeline mistakes within "That 70's Show", especially how "Star Wars" was introduced at least 4 years too early.

The show takes place between 1976 and 1980. How could Star Wars be introduced four years too early?

I think the last three seasons all took place in the second half of 1979, but each season had a christmas special.

I blame Braga for the fact that Frasier's first wife, Nanette, had plastic surgery and vocal restructuring between her appearance on Cheers and her appearance on Frasier. The list of this man's sins is endless, I wouldn't be surprised if he was responsible for the missing year on The West Wing.

And how about the episode where Sam sinks his boat, returns to the Boston and a increasingly chunky Saavik is running the bar?

You know it was Braga who walked up to John Kennedy and killed him with the phaser.

 

[Anwar]

It was also Braga who killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off a powderkeg.

 

[THE_FETT]

Braga is responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ!

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.

Kirk just plain forgot about his own flesh & blood brother!

He didn't forget about his brother George. The line is written so that longtime Star Trek fans who watched the show would realize that he's saying he's come to feel as close to Spock as he did to George. It was actually a very smart way of referencing a bit of continuity from the TV series without alienating casual fans. Maybe the only smartly-written bit of the William Shatner masturbation-fest that is Star Trek V.

I didn't take it as smart writing. Smart writing would have something like, "I've lost two brothers in my life. I was lucky; I got one back."

No, what the movie said; smart writing. This thing you got going on here in your quote? Not smart writing. Just plain writing that really has nothing going for it except as a piece of obvious dialogue.

 

[Dr. Chandra]

Braga is responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ!

He didn't forget about his brother George. The line is written so that longtime Star Trek fans who watched the show would realize that he's saying he's come to feel as close to Spock as he did to George. It was actually a very smart way of referencing a bit of continuity from the TV series without alienating casual fans. Maybe the only smartly-written bit of the William Shatner masturbation-fest that is Star Trek V.

I didn't take it as smart writing. Smart writing would have something like, "I've lost two brothers in my life. I was lucky; I got one back."

No, what the movie said; smart writing. This thing you got going on here in your quote? Not smart writing. Just plain writing that really has nothing going for it except as a piece of obvious dialogue.

Again.

I disagree. What the movie said? Not smart writing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Hmmm?

Gotta wionder if Garry Mitchel hadn't died during their "first Mission" if Spock would have ever became such an important "friend"? So that's another "Brother" that died who was arguably about twenty times more important than Spock up till the moment he expird when the Vulcanian inherited the label of best bud from that fallen god.

Okay an honest question.

Was George all that really shit hot of a brother?

Spock might have been a friend he treated like a brother, but George might have been a brother who he treated like a cousin?

 

[Lonemagpie]

I disagree. What the movie said? Not smart writing.

Yes, smart writing- it says two completely different things to the two distinct segments of the audience (longtime fans and casual moviegoers) without having to stop and explain the one audience's message to the other half.

 

[Dr. Chandra]

Okay. Again, however, I disagree. Not smart writing.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Okay. Again, however, I disagree. Not smart writing.

As an individual with free will you have a perfect right to hold that opinion, even though it's wrong...

 

[number6]

Same here.. "I lost a brother once" already speaks to the fanbase--who is Kirk referring to?? Then the payoff is that Kirk is employing metaphor for his relationship with Spock.

That makes the line heartfelt and meaningful in context. There are plenty of things wrong with TFF, but that line was true TOS.

 

[RandyS]

You name it, Braga did it.

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

I think thoughtout it's entire 7 seasons,voyager did have a lot of continuity errors and so did enterprise

 

[Dr. Chandra]

Okay. Again, however, I disagree. Not smart writing.

As an individual with free will you have a perfect right to hold that opinion, even though it's wrong...

 

[AJBryant]

"Trapper John, MD" who was from M*A*S*H* but in his spin off show he was supposed to be the same guy................and yet not.

Actually, this makes sense. For legal (and financial) reasons, the "Trapper John" in TJMD was deemed to have been based on the character in the movie, not the one in the TV series. It a weird way, it made sense.

 

[I am not Spock]

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!

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.

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!

They retconned the 'Frasier's dad is dead' thing later on. He just told people in Cheers Martin was dead because the two of them didn't get along!