Favorite canon violation

[at Quark's]

It's utter nonsense though, because it means that Bashir, Odo and O'Brien have never seen a picture of a Klingon from the TOS era, and never even heard of their appearance change.

Given their numerous and high-profile encounters with Starfleet, that makes no sense at all.

That's the entire point, in my view. As if they were saying: "yes we know there is this difference and we are not going to come up with a neat in-universe explanation to 'explain' away al the problems associated with it, so why don't you simply sit back and enjoy the show?"

I watched back the clip on YouTube and someone remarked that it would have been even funnier had they simply let Worf appear as an old-style Klingon with smooth forehead in the parts of the episode that play in the 23rd century and no other comrade of him even notice the change. Can't disagree with that

But if you really want an "explanation": holophotography must have been incredibly poor in the 23rd century. You can build a case around that with some quotes from this episode and Voyager's flashback. Or, O'brien and Bashir (Odo can be excused of course since he probably wouldn't have had any Starfleet history courses) really couldn't care any less about Starfleet history as they also don't seem to know other basic facts of the time period (uniform color change, mistaking someone else for Kirk), and in general blunder about during their time on the original Enterprise. So it's simply they who were surprised, but Sisko or Dax (for example) would have known.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

There was no rule that warp 10 was impossible until Threshold, and all the examples you cited were before that. So the question should be why did Threshold decide warp 10 was impossible when there was prior evidence showing that no it isn't.

It was published in technical manuals before that, so while it wasn't coming from a canonical source, it was in a reference source that the writers supposedly observed, that they just happened not to have come up with yet at the time of Where No Man Has Gone Before.

 

[Shawnster]

Not so much a favourite canon violation itself that pops up in my memory, but a favourite acknowledgement-and-dismissal of one.

DS9, Trials and Tribble-ations



Case closed. Brilliant solution, much better than that entire episode ENT later made out of it

Not so much a favourite canon violation itself that pops up in my memory, but a favourite acknowledgement-and-dismissal of one.

DS9, Trials and Tribble-ations



Case closed. Brilliant solution, much better than that entire episode ENT later made out of it

This episode is directly responsible for the augment virus nonsense in ENT in the first place.

 

[GNDN18]

It was published in technical manuals before that, so while it wasn't coming from a canonical source, it was in a reference source that the writers supposedly observed, that they just happened not to have come up with yet at the time of Where No Man Has Gone Before.

The TNG writer’s guide set warp 10 as the physical limit of the universe, so it’s biblical.

 

[Paul Weaver]

The TNG writer’s guide set warp 10 as the physical limit of the universe, so it’s biblical.
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Threshold didn't ignore it, the entire premise was about it being infinite speed

 

[at Quark's]

This episode is directly responsible for the augment virus nonsense in ENT in the first place.

Pffff... in that case I'll have to remember to never make a joke again. Someone just might take it seriously and act on it, and I would be 'directly responsible', following that logic. Bashir doesn't joke in that episode when he mentions the retrovirus, but certainly the episode itself isn't considering any of these options seriously- in fact I think the episode is saying exactly the opposite : 'can we please stop this nonsense about klingon foreheads -- it doesn't matter!' as a reaction to already existing 'fan debates' at the time.

 

[Jayson1]

I don't see why everyone is so critical of "Enterprise" trying to explain the Klingon forehead thing. I mean they didn't need to but that doesn't mean if you think you got a good story then you might as well do it if you think it will be fun. Frankly I think it would have went over better of the episodes had been better. I mean they were okay but nothing special. The idea of trying to tell that story though isn't bad.

Jason

 

[JirinPanthosa]

In S4 of Enterprise the show was just having fun and delivering fanservice. I didn't have a problem with explaining the foreheads.