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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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).]

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.]

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.]

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.]

At the end, when Picard is standing outside of Engineering, it looks perfectly normal. He doesn't even see any Borg on his way or just outside the doors, even though by this point the Borg have taken over pretty much the whole ship. But, at the beginning, when Data is captured, outside of Engineering there are Borg all around and the walls are all torn apart with wires hanging down, etc. [Federation starships have more than one entrance to Engineering in case something happens to the main doors.]

The steam coming from the hole in the deflector dish scene falls back on the ship hull even though there's no gravity and no air pressure - the steam should just shoot out into space. [The Enterprise has gravity plating onboard, so it probably also exerts a small force for a certain distance outside the ship, thereby pulling the steam down.]

They establish on the holodeck that traditional projectile weapons (like a tommy gun - hard to adapt to bullets) will kill Borg. Why don't they make these in the replicator instead of making the phaser rifles they know will only work a few times? Nothing to do with the borg adapting (and they'd be made in the replicater, NOT the holodeck) - hard to adapt to solid bullets ripping through your vital systems. Can't be a worry about the hull - simple steel will stop bullets and Starfleet ships are built with "Tritanium", "Duranium" and other futuristic materials mentioned in the series. I doubt a machine gun round would even scratch a bulkhead. [The Borg had cut the main power so the replicators were probably offline.]

When Picard is explaining the Enterprise to Lili he states that she is comprised of 24 decks. Later one of the officers explains to Picard that the Borg have taken over decks 13 through 26. [The officer explains to Worf that the Borg have over run the decks. This man was on Defiant with Worf at the start of the film so he isn't a Enterprise crewman (he's probably stationed on DS9). He's just not as knowledgeable about Enterprise as her captain & also under stress from fighting the Borg it's just the officer making a mistake.]

In the scene where the Enterprise destroys the Borg sphere the Enterprise's quantum torpedoes exhibit the visible distortion made when they pass through the ship's shields. However it has already been established that the Enterprise's shields are off-line following their trip back through time. [Every ship has a navigational deflector screen, to block space debris from hitting the ship.]

When Lilly and Jean Luc are arguing in the captain's ready room look carefully at Picard's mouth when Lilly screams "Jean Luc blow up the damn ship!" Even a Shakespearean trained actor like Patrick Stewart sometimes can't stop himself from mouthing the other actor's dialogue. He mouths the same thing. I am not sure if this can be seen on the VHS or Non-letterboxed version, but you cans see it on the DVD Letterboxed version. [I have checked this on my video copy of the film (as I could not believe that an acting god like Patrick Stewart would make such a slip). He doesn't mouth the lines - I'm certain of it. Patrick Stewart is acting his socks off at this point and the vague movement of his lips comes from the all-over shake that he develops during the argument - Picard is very upset. His lips don't form any words and his next line was just "NO", so I truly don't think this mistake occurs.]

WWIII didn't seem to do much damage. People have clothes, houses and even electricity. Riker states 37 million people are dead and very few governments are left. 37 million is only 10% of the US population and about .6% of the world population (please forgive the callousness of "only" 37 million.) One would think that government would return a year or less after such a small war. Especially since the majority of government leaders would most likely have escaped to shelters. After all, WWII was 6 years long, killed close to 50 million people and the major world governments never came close to falling (by falling I refer to anarchy as opposed to a new government). One would think casualties would be closer to 500 million-1 billion in order to truly cripple society. [First of all, Riker actually says 600 million dead which is a far cry from 37 million. He also said many major cities were destroyed. You are also forgetting that there would be more Weapons of Mass Destruction used. Also, the "houses" we see are hardly that great, and people can use gas generators for electricity. It's not hard to believe people would have clothes, either. For that matter Data says it is 10 years after WWIII so people had enough time to get themselves together somewhat. It seems WWIII did as much damage as Riker said it did.]

When Lili shoots at Data, shouldn't that hurt him? There was an episode where Troi shot an arrow through Data (the one where Q made them re-enact the Robin Hood story). While it didn't damage him, they made it sound like it could have. Even if he was bullet proof, being hit by that many bullets should at least have damaged his clothes. [In the Q episode, Troi is only worried, but Data never looks hurt. Same thing with the bullets. Also his clothes are damaged when shot.]

When beaming the Defiant survivors aboard the Enterprise, shields were still activated. Since when can they beam through activated shields? [Timing is everything! They could just let the shields down to beam and raise them immediately. Also they don't have to deactivate all the shields, only the one at the side where the Defiant is.]

Why, why, why the hell didn't the Borg just travel back a few hundred years earlier to Earth (like the 1600s or something) so they could just take over much more easily? [While the Borg were trying to take over the human race, they were still in it for technology. They would gain nothing by going back into the 1600's. Also, a few hundred years earlier would have meant that their race at the current time was farther away, and harder to contact.]

The whole premise for this film is blown if you consider that the Borg are after technology. Why would they want to go back in time to assimilate a race that has almost no 'technological distinctiveness' to add to their own. Earth has a tremendous amount to offer during Picard's time and very little during Cochran's time. The hassle of time traveling to assimilate a pre-warp capable world seems like a waste of effort. Sending a few more cubes to finish the job in Picard's time seems much more advantageous. [Not really, since Starfleet has proven to be a direct threat to the Borg (and they were right to think so, since the Voyager crew made them extinct a few years later), they went back in time with the intent of preventing the Federation from existing.]