Realm of Fear discontinuity

[Mark 2000]

I kind of hate RoF so I don't know why I care, but on a rewatch I noticed a weird discrepancy. The Yosemite was first said to be empty of crew except the one dead body. Later Riker says only 4 crew are unaccounted for. Those 4 crew are later found in the matter stream. So since the escape pods are all intact, where are the other 100 or some crew members? What did Riker mean when he said everyone was accounted for? How were they accounted?

 

[Trekker4747]

Accounted for:

We know where this person is.

They have a list of names of people on the ship, they have bodies/whatever. Four are missing, those four were in the transporter buffer.

 

[Mark 2000]

I just re-rewatched it. When they first board the ship Riker says there is no sign of anyone. Geordi suggests they abandoned ship. Worf says no escape pods are missing. Then Bev finds one dead body in the other room. That's one body.

Two scenes later Riker walks in and states that there are still four members of the crew unaccounted for. So that means there were only five people on a ship that size? That's not even enough to fill the bridge. Does not compute.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The ship was obviously Starfleet in design, but Starfleet probably didn't need it anymore so they let a skeleton crew of scientists use it.

 

[Mark 2000]

That's a pretty small crew.

 

[Mark 2000]

Silly double post.

 

[Trekker4747]

I just re-rewatched it. When they first board the ship Riker says there is no sign of anyone. Geordi suggests they abandoned ship. Worf says no escape pods are missing. Then Bev finds one dead body in the other room. That's one body.

Two scenes later Riker walks in and states that there are still four members of the crew unaccounted for. So that means there were only five people on a ship that size? That's not even enough to fill the bridge. Does not compute.

Just because we the audience only saw one body dosen't mean others weren't discovered in other parts of the ship.

 

[Mark 2000]

Nope, Riker says the ship is empty. And Beverly would have mentioned testing more bodies since the one found was acting so strangely. There was only one corpse.

 

[Trekker4747]

I'll have to watch the episode again, but I suspect Riker makes that statement shortly after stepping off the transporter pad and not after a complete search of the ship which has several decks and thousands of yards of empty space.

"No signs of anyone" can mean anything but I wouldn't take to mean there's no dead bodies around and just because we're not shown or told of Beverly looking at other bodies doesn't mean they didn't happen.

There were other crew members, there'd have to be, as the ship being manned by a handful of people is stupid. That slightly sloppy writing may contradict this means nothing. Everyone who was supposed to be on the ship was accounted for save the people in the transporter buffer.

 

[Mark 2000]

Nope again. The first time we see the inside of the Yosemite its after Barclay sees Troi and then decides to beam over. So there's already been plenty of time to search the ship. Riker says "No sign of survivors. No sign of anyone". Geordi says "Maybe they abandoned ship". Worf reports that all escape pods are onboard.

You're right, it is sloppy writing, but this is Bragga we're talking about so it's extreme sloppy writing. I'm fairly sure they meant that the only person left on the ship was the dead Kelley. Maybe they didn't realize that meant a 5 person crew. Maybe they didn't care.