What is THE Worst continuity error in Trek history..?!

[SchwEnt]

The continuity errors don't bother me, but one that REALLY stands out is Voyager's "The Q and the Grey" vs. TNG's "True Q".

In "The Q and the Grey", the Q have never reproduced. Our Q wants to be the first to do so. In the earlier episode "True Q", Amanda Rodgers learns that her parents were Q.

(*facepalm*)

That brings up another issue, where the Farpoint mission seems to be a first contact meeting between humanity and the Q. Yet the Q must have been messing around with humans a couple decades before when Amanda was born.

And VOY later showed that with the powers of the Q, they have been popping up all along in humanity's history.

And that makes me wonder why the Farpoint mission is when the Q decided to announce themselves and put humanity on trial. Why then? Not during the 21st century? Not during TOS? Not the 26th century?

 

[BillJ]

yeah, the Borg continuity mess is pretty egregious

sure, you can rationalize it as some above have, but it's still a mess. Why would starfleet want to keep the existence of a huge potential threat a secret? and why were they so unprepared in "BOBW" if they knew they were out there?

Why would Starfleet keep it a secret? The last thing a fledgling space program would need is for word to get out that cybernetic zombies were wandering local space and can turn someone with a single touch. If I was Starfleet, I'd bury that one deep.

Why unprepared? Even with limited contact and a few eyewitness accounts, they only saved 47 El-Aurians in Generations, the level of 24th century Borg tech would be largely unknown. Q, Who is what I would call a very limited encounter.

 

[Deckerd]

The complete lack of a cloacal device is a bad continuity error with any kind of reality.

 

[JB2005]

The continuity errors don't bother me, but one that REALLY stands out is Voyager's "The Q and the Grey" vs. TNG's "True Q".

In "The Q and the Grey", the Q have never reproduced. Our Q wants to be the first to do so. In the earlier episode "True Q", Amanda Rodgers learns that her parents were Q.

(*facepalm*)

That brings up another issue, where the Farpoint mission seems to be a first contact meeting between humanity and the Q. Yet the Q must have been messing around with humans a couple decades before when Amanda was born.

And VOY later showed that with the powers of the Q, they have been popping up all along in humanity's history.

And that makes me wonder why the Farpoint mission is when the Q decided to announce themselves and put humanity on trial. Why then? Not during the 21st century? Not during TOS? Not the 26th century?

They recognised it was a pilot episode and realised there'd never be a better time!

 

[Sorak]

I agree with the OP, the cloaking device thing is perfectly annoying. Someone on ENT didn't do his job...

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, just because it's driving the editor in me nuts:

It's "cloaking," not "cloacking."

I wouldn't have mentioned it except it's been misspelled about a dozen times so far!

 

[Deckerd]

I didn't misspell my post.

 

[Greg Cox]

I didn't misspell my post.

I noticed!

 

[indolover]

- Klingons not having ridges in TOS is fine, but why the batter armour change? How come Kahless is holy in TNG, but not TOS?

- And the fact that Klingon/human first contact led to decades of war lol.. Archer technically made first contact, he even met the then Klingon Chancellor and High Council.

- Oh yeah, and the Trill having spots in DS9, then bumps in TNG lol.. The TNG Trill symbiont seemed to override the host's personality, but in DS9 a host is a mixture of the symbiont's personality, their own personality and those of all previous hosts.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Delta Vega moving from a dusty, uninhabited world at the galactic rim ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") to an icy, monster-filled world in viewing distance of Vulcan (STXI).

Warp speeds getting our heroes from the edge of the galaxy to Earth and to the centre in the blink of an eye (TOS, TAS, STV) and then suddenly turning said journey into a multigenerational epic (Voyager).

Kirk saying that no ship's been to the centre of the galaxy and that no probe has ever returned in STV, despite Kirk and the Enterprise visiting in TAS "Magicks of Megas Tu".

Walking database Data saying that nothing resembling a "hole in space" has ever been encountered ("Where Silence Has Lease"), despite Kirk using that exact phrase in the face of an identical looking anomaly in "The Immunity Syndrome"

 

[Cyke101]

- And the fact that Klingon/human first contact led to decades of war lol.. Archer technically made first contact, he even met the then Klingon Chancellor and High Council.

I can't remember if this was stated explicitly or implied because of the super-secret-baddie, but I assumed things were different because the Suliban and Future Guy had interfered in established events.


But then again that starts to go too far into the whole TOS-> FC -> ENT -> TOS?/XI? path and I don't even want to begin to go there.

- Oh yeah, and the Trill having spots in DS9, then bumps in TNG lol.. The TNG Trill symbiont seemed to override the host's personality, but in DS9 a host is a mixture of the symbiont's personality, their own personality and those of all previous hosts.

Speaking of TNG and DS9, the Cardassians in the Wounded look fairly different than in all other appearances. And Marc Alaimo plays a different Gul altogether!

 

[Sorak]

Okay, just because it's driving the editor in me nuts:

It's "cloaking," not "cloacking."

I wouldn't have mentioned it except it's been misspelled about a dozen times so far!

I don't know how and why I did that. I really don't. I will go on exile now, I'm too ashamed. Sigh.

 

[Sagart]

This one isn't about canon continuity and it's not even a big deal story wise but I find it really annoying.

in ST09, Kirk is shown walking through a dark passageway on Nero's ship and we can see the weapon he's holding is a Romulan one. However, this scene is before he meets Nero, loses his Starfleet phaser and picks up Ayel's weapon. It's such a small thing but it really bugs me!!

 

[C.E. Evans]

This one isn't about canon continuity and it's not even a big deal story wise but I find it really annoying.

in ST09, Kirk is shown walking through a dark passageway on Nero's ship and we can see the weapon he's holding is a Romulan one. However, this scene is before he meets Nero, loses his Starfleet phaser and picks up Ayel's weapon. It's such a small thing but it really bugs me!!

Yeah, I noticed that too. Just gotta have to pretend that one away.

For me, it was having phase pistols as the predecessor to the lasers Pike's crew was using in "The Menagerie." I thought they should have kept the initial EM-33 plasma pistols used early in ENT's pilot, but they wanted something that was more "phasery" instead...

 

[F. King Daniel]

This one isn't about canon continuity and it's not even a big deal story wise but I find it really annoying.

in ST09, Kirk is shown walking through a dark passageway on Nero's ship and we can see the weapon he's holding is a Romulan one. However, this scene is before he meets Nero, loses his Starfleet phaser and picks up Ayel's weapon. It's such a small thing but it really bugs me!!

It's Nero's crooked ear switching sides during his fight with Kirk that annoys me!

 

[captcalhoun]

people who moan about ENT and ignore the continuity cock-ups in TOS.

 

[Merky]

Every other episode in S3 of TOS contradicting every episode in S1 - S2.

And how the blood stain on Kirk's uniform in TWOK just would not stay in one place. It was like it had a life of it's own on that chest.

 

[C.E. Evans]

people who moan about ENT and ignore the continuity cock-ups in TOS.

That's not a continuity error, but a gripe towards some Trek fans.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Delta Flyer barely fits through Voyager's shuttlebay doors - yet in "Drive" we see a much larger ship parked next to the Flyer inside the bay (which had double sized for this episode).

The much larger Excelsior somehow follows the Enterprise outside the spacedock in STIII, despite Enterprise itself just barely fitting through the big doors.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, there's certainly the fact that Commodore Mendez described Pike as being about Kirk's age, when we saw in flashback that he's at least fifteen years older...