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Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - 34 corrections

Directed by Jonathan Frakes, starring Alfre Woodard, Alice Krige, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, James Cromwell, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Patrick Stewart (add more)

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Picard holds a staff meeting with all the major officers after learning of the Borg yet the Tactical officer (whoever replaced Worf during this time while he was on DS9) is never seen. [There is no mention of a tactical officer replacing Worf, but when Worf is asked to give a hand he does relieve someone at the tactical station. Obviously they had a lower-level officer filling in at tactical until a replacement could be found for Worf. The lower-level officer would not have been invited to the staff meeting.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
When the Borg Queen is talking to Data about how he talks, drones are working on his arm with his hands being restrained. He is still able to move his fingers quite easily so if he can do that he should be able to just slip his hands out from the restraints. [Irrelevant. The fact is, Data doesn't want to get away or escape, he finds the Borg Queen intriguing, especially as she is promising the one thing in the universe he craves more than anything else; to be more human.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight
In the spacewalk scene, where Worf's suit is damaged during the fight with the Borg drone to release the deflector dish, he stops the suit from leaking by using part of the Borg drone as a tourniquet on his upper leg. Although this might be sufficient for keeping the rest of his body from being exposed to decompression in space, his lower leg is still exposed to deep space vacuum, resulting in the blood boiling instanly. This would cause him to at the very least lose the functionality of this body part, yet there is no sign of this in the rest of the scene. [He doesn't use the Borg part as a tourniquet. He plugs/patches the hole and uses the Borg part to hold the plug/patch in place.]
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When Picard, Worf and Hawke step onto the hull to remove the plating the Borg are working on, there's a big deal made of the fact they have to magnetise their space suits to avoid floating away. This is even shown explicitly when Picard demagnetises himself, floats away to the other side and magnetises again to land himself. How then, is he able to just lay his phaser rifle on the hull so he can work on a locked console without it floating off into space? [There has to be a force acting on something for it to fly away. Picard and his compatriots are walking, so, if their boots weren't magnetised, the force of their steps would cause them to float away. With the rifle, however, it's just an inanimate object, there are no forces involved. As such Picard can just rest it against the hull, without having to worry about losing it.] [And, more to the point, if you listen when they set their rifles down, you can hear the same sound that occurred when they activated their boots. That is done to indicate that they're using a magnetic system to keep the gun on the hull of the ship.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
In one of the final sequences, when Picard initiates the self destruct sequence, Worf uses his authorization code to ratify the self destruct command. How could Worf be a commanding officer of the ship, with authority to destroy the ship? At the time of the movie, he was in command of the Defiant, and not a crew member of the Enterprise, let alone a commanding officer. [You don't have to be a commanding officer of the ship or even one of the ship's crew. As long as the ship's computer recognizes the person's authority, the computer will follow instructions. Remeber that in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, NO ONE is officially a crew member of the Enterprise as it is scheduled to be decommissioned. However, after stealing the ship, Kirk, Scotty and Chekov are able to activate the self-destruct because the computer recognizes their authority.]
Edit Corrected by Guy Time
After all the plasma is vented from the floor of Engineering, Picard's shoes sizzle when he steps on the floor. However, the rungs of the metal ladder he climbs down from, which also would have been submersed in the plasma, do not, and neither do they burn his hands. [Picard's shoes, the floor, and the railing are all made of different materials, and therefore will probably react to the plasma differently.]
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Sector 001 is the Solar System, and the location of Earth, the Federation's capital world. For such an important location, it doesn't seem to be heavily guarded and no ships are seen establishing a perimeter defense around the planet, or even orbiting it. Earth is the Borg's target. With the threat of a Borg invasion, one would expect Starfleet Command to mobilize every ship they could, alert their allies and recall the ships not in-system, yet only 10-20 ships are shown attacking the Cube (not counting the ones destroyed prior to the the Enterprise's arrival). [Too much supposition. We don't know how many ships defending Earth have already been destroyed, how many were close enough to get there in time, how many might have encountered the Borg en route and fallen without ever reaching the defensive line at Earth. Earth isn't a fortress, requiring a huge defensive fleet at all times - Starfleet ships will generally be out on assignment, so all they have at Earth is what they can pull together in time. Certainly we don't have remotely enough information to consider this a valid error.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
Picard and Worf destroy the deflector dish. This means the Enterprise is left without the ability to deflect anything, including dust. Without that ability, it would be unable to proceed at even impulse speeds, let alone go to warp, as the impacts would create micro-holes in the ship and thus destroy it. [A. Enterprise is mostly in orbit and travels a short distance through the solar system, even our spacecraft today do that safely for weeks without damage. B. Her structural integrity fields provide limited protection against spaceborne debris. C. The crew will certainly effect repairs before they return to the future.]
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If the Enterprise crew did not know that the Borg were aboard, there would be no reason to lock up Sick Bay, and so the doors should have opened when the Borg drones attempted to gain access. However, the drones had to punch their way inside. [This assumes the doors to sickbay will open for anyone (or anything). Sickbay would be a secure area and may only allow access for crew members with their I.D. badges. In my police department everyone has magnetic security badges, each one programmed to only allow access for the area that you have security clearance for. Even if the doors normally open for anyone they probably would have increased the security access at the time to ensure limited contact with the patient from the 21st century.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie Time
In the first scene when Data is captured by the Borg Queen and he is restrained, he informs her that the encryption code is locked in his neuralnet and can not be forcibly removed, you see 2 small drill bits being drilled right into his head by his left ear. Later in the movie when they are talking about the flesh on his arm (before the flesh is grafted onto his face) while he is still being restrained, there are NO drill holes in his face. From prior episodes in STNG Data is NOT self healing. How did the holes fix themselves? And if the Borg queen is going to graft flesh on his face there, why would they bother fixing the holes? [The Borg Queen is trying to win Data over to her side, not to force him. So any damage they do to him while preparing to attach real skin to him will be fixed to show her good faith.]
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After the survivors of the Defiant are beamed aboard, Dr. Crusher escorts Worf to the bridge. Why would she do this? There are undoubtedly casualties from the Defiant in sickbay which could do with the Chief Medical Officer's attention. Worf doesn't need to be shown the way - even if he doesn't know he only has to step into the turbolift and say "Bridge". [Probably there are casualties, and no doubt her highly trained staff are keeping them under observation. Only one, however, has insisted on going straight to the bridge; Beverly is merely keeping him under temporary observation to ensure that he's not being all Klingon and shrugging off a serious injury. Any other member of her staff, Worf could intimidate into leaving him alone, but not her.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
Just before beaming up to the Enterprise and leaving the 21st century, Picard calls the ship to give the corresponding order. He does this without touching his badge before starting to talk. When not on board of the Enterprise the badge has to be tapped to active the communications link (some sort of energy saving mode). Just starting to talk and activate a com link with this only works on board. [Incorrect. There are numerous instances on the show where they keep an "open communications link" with someone on the surface of a planet. When they do this, tapping the badge is not necessary.]
Edit Corrected by jhoffman100@yahoo.com
In the scene where Picard, Worf and Hawk are space-walking on the hull of the Enterprise, in the first shots Worf appears to the right of Picard, then after a c/u or two, Worf is to the left . The sequence is too tight to allow for a passage of time in which the Worf and Hawk might have swapped places. [I thought this was a mistake too and replayed the scene several times until I realized that the first shot where Warf appears to the right of Picard it is because the shot is of them upside down. After the cutaway they are head up and Warf is now to the left of Picard but still on Picard's right.]
Edit Corrected by Dale Dressler Time
In the 'deflector disc scene', Lt. Hawk is grabbed by a Borg, who carries him off to the side of the ship (moving at a very slow pace, due to being magnetically attached to the hull). Only a few minutes later, Hawk reappears, this time fully assimilated and with Borg attachments on his face and head. None of the other people assimilated in this film got their attachments so quickly, and Hawk could not have gotten to engineering, received implants and then climbed back outside in so short a time. And why did he put his space helmet back on after getting the implants? As a Borg, he would not need it, as seen on the other drones working on the deflector disk. [They neither took him back to engineering nor removed his helmet. The devices that appeared on his face are a result of the nanoprobes that he was injected with. They are the first step in assimilation and have a limited ability to generate these devices and the injection tubules can penetrate most any known form of shielding (according to the Doctor on Voyager). We have already seen the early effects of this stage of assimilation. When Picard shoots the crewman who has been injected and is asking for Picard to help him, if you look at his face, you can see the begining stages of this automated assimilation process.]
Edit Corrected by Garlonuss
The Enterprise crew show Cochrane the Enterprise in a telescope. The size of the enterprise in the telescope field is appropriate to an object in low orbit. However, the speed is way too slow. The Enterprise would zip through even a wide field lens in under a second. [Wouldn't it depend on the speed of Enterprise? It is likely that Enterprise was more or less maintaining position over the away team in low orbit is it could beam them out in an emergency, which they couldn't do from the other side of the planet through the all that rock. So it would remain in the telescope's field of view constantly.]
Edit Corrected by Soylent Purple Time
Cochrane asks Geordi "don't you people in the 24th Century ever pee?" This is a reference to the fact that bathrooms are never shown in Enterprise schematics (on the TV series, it was always a running gag that none of the show's fans knew where the bathroom was). [In STTFF, Kirk pulled out a toilet in the brig to sit on, and on TNG the schematics showed a toilet to the left hand side of the bridge.]
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When Picard leaves the bridge with the first landing party, he leaves Riker in charge of the bridge. A few scenes later, he orders down an engineering detail; a few scenes after that, Riker is now on the planet surface (in the missile silo with Picard, Data and Troi). Perhaps there is a scene on the cutting room floor that accounts for this apparent dereliction of duty? [It is safe to assume a fair amount of time has passed. Picard wanted more people on the surface to look for Cochrane, so probably ordered Riker down. Also, when Picard goes back to the Enterprise, Worf is in command (Sitting in Captain's chair).]
Edit Corrected by Soylent Purple Time
It's stated that as long as the safety protocol is turned off holographic bullets can kill while on the holodeck. So why not just build a machine gun out of the holographic program? It seems rather pointless and kind of overkill to steal a Tommygun out of a holo-novel. [Because then Picard would have had to program it into the computer. By going into the program, he knew there was already one there.]
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According to the Star Trek history, Zefram Cochrane is supposed to be in his early 30s during this time, but in this movie he is obviously much older (James Cromwell was 56 at the time). [He was working near a nuclear weapon, which may have given him radiation poisoning causing him to appear aged. That and having gone through World War 3, there's no telling what kind of chemical agents were used.]
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When Picard, Data and Worf are making their way to Engineering, they wake up the Borg that are stacked on top of each other, then they drop down from a second level. How do they get up there in the first place? [There are shots of the crew trying to escape the Borg by climbing up some ladders, and the Borg subsequently pulling them down and climbing up the ladders themselves. As seen in the series and other films, Borg ships are made up of many levels, so it's likely that the Borg turned the Enterprise's decks into similar multi-leveled areas, using the ladders to climb to the upper levels.]
Edit Corrected by Gary O'Reilly

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