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

[Shawnster]

^ AFAIK, no, there wasn't a plan for something like that.

Also we seem to be forgetting that Naomi's father was still alive. So even if that rumor was true, and Samantha had died, then he would of course take custody of Naomi upon the ship's return home. And that mythical couple would have been quite disappointed....

What you propose would only happen if Voyager returned home before Naomi grew up. In the meantime, prior to Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant, someone would have to take care of Naomi.

Voyager wasn't like the Enterprise. On the Enterprise they regularly left minor children alone after they were orphaned (The Bonding and Hero Worship).

Of course, Voyager lost the Borg baby, so there is that... Maybe they weren't so great at finding parents for orphaned children after all.

Wait... there's a continuity error.. The Borg baby!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In the meantime, prior to Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant, someone would have to take care of Naomi.

If you're just talking babysitters, then yeah, I would agree.

 

[The Wormhole]

but repeatedly encountering the same specific Kazon over that length of time wasn't plausible to me.

Makes perfect sense, considering those specific Kazon were following the ship in the hopes of taking it over, with assistance from the Cardassian agent who used to serve on it.

The others I was thinking of was the late encounters with the Hirogen and the Talaxians, and that colony of Ocampans they found.

The Talaxians were convenient, but I though the story worked the way it was presented. The Ocampans they encountered were working with the other Caretaker, so of course they could end up anywhere else in the galaxy.

it still read to me as a show that was fundamentally uninterested in it's own premise.

Well, if you're looking for a reason to say the show was uninterested in its premise a far better example is the fact that for a show about a ship stranded in the Delta Quadrant, it actually had at the time the most episodes set on Earth. Enterprise has since surpassed it, but still the point stands.

I believe I've read an interview with some VOY writer/producer about how they thought either Carey, Samantha Wildman, or both had been killed off, and were surprised to learn they were still alive and could still be used.

Ah, yes, the Carey Myth. People are frequently saying they remember reading or hearing somewhere that the writers thought Carey was killed, though they can never remember the source. The problem is that though Carey does seem to mysteriously disappear after season 1 and only returns for flashbacks set during the first season, he does get mentioned a few times over the course of the series. Although, ironically, one of those times he's mentioned is Before and After where its said he got killed in that episode's alternate timeline, no doubt fueling this myth.

 

[CaptainSpirk]

Annika Hansen would have been around 17 at the time of Wolf 359. It's possible she could have been on one of the ships (she'd be the same age as Wesley Crusher). However, some complain too many Borg drones showed up on Voyager who were from Wolf 359, especially given that ship was destroyed.

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that a Borg drone have a fast maturation rate, so that Annika could have grown up faster whilst a Borg when she was captured? I too was bored of the Borg storyline on Voyager. Voyager didn't take too many risks like other shows.

 

[alpha_leonis]

The Romulan War took place before the timelines diverged between the Prime and Reboot universes.

Archer's Enterprise NX-01 met some Romulans, and even had audio communications with them. They were unable to understand the Romulans' language, even with a Vulcan on board. By Kirk's time in the Prime Universe, they only discovered for the first time that the Romulans were biologically related to Vulcans.

In Reboot universe, Uhura had to replace a communications officer who couldn't distinguish the Romulan language (in three dialects) from Vulcan. They knew in that timeline well before "Balance of Terror" timeframe, from the language only.

 

[Hawku]

- Prime Kahn recognizing Prime Chekov.
- The JJ-verse Kirk & crew with different faces.
- I saw a light stand on the Bridge of the Enterprise-D once.

 

[Nerys Myk]

- The JJ-verse Kirk & crew with different faces.

Same faces. Prime Spock recognizes Kirk and Scott.

If that's a continuity error then so are Savvik in STIII, the various Alexanders in TNG/DS9, the second and third Toras in DS9, Cochrane in First Contact and Bok in TNG's "Bloodlines". Probably others too.

 

[Cyke101]

Same faces. Prime Spock recognizes Kirk and Scott.

If that's a continuity error then so are Savvik in STIII, the various Alexanders in TNG/DS9, the second and third Toras in DS9, Cochrane in First Contact and Bok in TNG's "Bloodlines". Probably others too.

My favorite is probably Marcus Nash, Patrick Stewart, and Tom Hardy all portraying Picard during his academy days. This is way more than your typical case of Freshman 15, eh?

P.S. I would love to see Stewart and Hardy in a non-Trek movie, considering just how much Hardy's grown since Nemesis. Their screen test together for Nemesis was amazing, and totally different than what we got in the movie.

 

[Hawku]

Savvik is a huge continuity error. Also, Tiron's face was somehow duplicated in the Weyouns, Brunt, Penk, Krem, Shran and others.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Savvik is a huge continuity error. Also, Tiron's face was somehow duplicated in the Weyouns, Brunt, Penk, Krem, Shran and others.

Nah. It's called recasting.

 

[Hawku]

Oh, and Q-Junior? Keegan de Lancie didn't look anything like that baby.

 

[Nyotarules]

Prime recognised James Kirk even though he was taller, slimmer and had blue eyes. I think Prime had been on the chocolate sauce...

 

[MAGolding]

Setting aside Voyager's determined commitment to anti-continuity, I think there is literally only one continuity error in Trek that seriously annoys me, and it's TNG Trill to DS9 Trill. TNG Trill look different, they can't transport, the symbiont fully suppress the host, the crew knows absolutely nothing about this how the Trill work -- beyond the concept of a joined species and the name, there is not one other point of connection between TNG Trill and DS9 Trill.

It annoys me so much because THE FIX IS SO EASY. If you want to change everything about a species other than the concept of being joined, JUST MAKE THEM A NEW JOINED SPECIES. If you must, someone can have a line to the effect of "Lt Dax is [New Alien Name]. They're a joined species, similar to the Trill."

Yes, it's so simple.

Mr.laser beam said:

Also, Terry was actually allergic to the TNG Trill makeup, wasn't she?

It's good to treat the cast well. But they could have also been nice to the viewers by calling Dax's species "the L'lirt, a conjoined species similar to the Trill".

Or maybe someone could call Dax a Trill sometimes and Dax would say she as a Rillit, and the other person would say that "Everybody calls all parasitic - I mean conjoined - species Trill, no matter the actual name of the species". So whenever a writer forgot and had a character call Dax a Trill instead of a Etisarap, the viewers would think that character was using the generic word for all conjoined aliens, instead of the name of Dax's species.

 

[BillJ]

It annoys me so much because THE FIX IS SO EASY. If you want to change everything about a species other than the concept of being joined, JUST MAKE THEM A NEW JOINED SPECIES. If you must, someone can have a line to the effect of "Lt Dax is [New Alien Name]. They're a joined species, similar to the Trill."

Then you have fandom bitching because two species are exactly alike accept for the makeup used.

 

[Shawnster]

Oh, and Q-Junior? Keegan de Lancie didn't look anything like that baby.

Ooohh there's another continuity error.

VOY "Q and the Grey" the whole continuum was all in a tizzy because they needed to reproduce and the Q had never reproduced before. Well, except for the two Q who reproduced and conceived Amanda Rogers in TNG's "True Q."

But that's linear.

 

[The Wormhole]

But they could have also been nice to the viewers by calling Dax's species "the L'lirt, a conjoined species similar to the Trill".

So what if DS9 Trill look different from TNG Trill? At the time DS9 started, Klingon forehead ridges hadn't been explained or even acknowledged. Hell, there are many aliens named Talarian, Terrellian, Rigellian, and they all look very different.

VOY "Q and the Grey" the whole continuum was all in a tizzy because they needed to reproduce and the Q had never reproduced before. Well, except for the two Q who reproduced and conceived Amanda Rogers in TNG's "True Q."

IIRC, didn't they leave the Continuum and became human when they reproduced? But, I'll agree, it was an oversight for that Voyager episode.

 

[UnknownSample]

TNG Trills seemed to hijack host bodies, taking over, yet it was their way, so it was considered okay somehow. DS9 Trills were an equal joining. That's not just a matter of looking different.

 

[The Wormhole]

TNG Trills seemed to hijack host bodies, taking over, yet it was their way, so it was considered okay somehow. DS9 Trills were an equal joining. That's not just a matter of looking different.

The DS9 way was more interesting, IMO.

 

[UnknownSample]

The DS9 way was more interesting, IMO.

And not evil, which is a plus...

 

[Tenacity]

Then you have fandom bitching because two species are exactly alike accept for the makeup used.

DS9's Trills could use the transporter without dying.