Corrected entry: All the humans on board evolve backwards to the primate stage of evolution. Lt. Barclay, however, appears as a half spider-half human hybrid when we see him in engineering. There are several things wrong with this: 1. Arachnids are not part of the human evolutionary chain. 2. All the other humans on board never de-evolve past primate stage, there is no reason why Barclay should have a speedier de-evolution into an even earlier stage. 3. Even if it were possible that Barclay could have arachnids in his ancestry, why is only half of his body arachnid and the rest human? Shouldn't his entire body be a part of the process, since it is his genes that are operating in reverse? NOTE: Barclay is listed as wholly human both on official websites and in the "Star Trek Encyclopedia", so these can not be explained by him being an alien resembling a human.
Twotall
28th Oct 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Correction: 1. If all life on Earth originated from the same pool of primordial ooze (see "All Good Things..."), then all life on Earth has shared ancestry. 2. Barclay was Patient Zero, so his de-evolution might be more advanced than the rest of the crew. 3. Barclay had Uridian flu (which is why he was injected with the synthetic T-cell that started the whole thing in the first place) which might also have affected how the mutations affected him.
3rd Jun 2006
Robinson Crusoe
Corrected entry: In chapter 4, Robinson discovers the wreck of his ship, and removes his clothing before swimming out to it. Once there, the very first thing he does is to go to the bread room and fill his pockets with biscuits. While he later in the chapter states that he was wearing breeches when he came aboard, the events of the book occurred almost a century before people started to sew pockets into trousers, so it is impossible for Robinson to have these on his "linen, and open-kneed" breeches.
Correction: Crusoe's adventure starts in 1659. The book was published in 1719, only 60 years later. By this logic, Daniel Defoe wrote about pants pockets 40 years before they were invented. However, it never says the pockets were part of his pants. For a long time prior to being an integral part of clothing, pockets were separate bags tied to the outside of clothing which is what this refers to.
21st May 2006
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Corrected entry: In one of the last scenes, after Sophie has met the Guardians, she meets Langdon to say goodbye to him. She has a dark smudge on her throat that disappears halfway through the conversation, only to reappear after she hugs him.
Correction: The smudge on Sophie's throat is a scab from where Silas held the knife to her throat in Westminster Abbey. It doesn't disappear during the last conversation, but Sophie's hair changes position and sometimes the scab is covered and other times it's uncovered.
30th Apr 2006
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: Dr. Chase gets the invisible ink on her hands from the campaign button Gates sent her. Several hours later, she attends a gala and leaves her nice and clear fingerprints in the invisible ink on her glass, where Gates retrieves them. Time has passed, and she has dressed up and gotten ready for a gala event - and she has not washed her hands even once?
Correction: The invisible ink was not meant for him to take her fingerprints at all, but to figure out what is her password to access the preservation room. He doesn't need any sort of ink to take her fingerprints - just the superheated Crazy Glue and the Ziploc bag which he uses in the restroom. The fact that she showered has no bearing on that, because she went down to the vault and entered her password much earlier in the day, soon after getting the button from Gates.
19th Jan 2006
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
9th Sep 2005
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
All Good Things... (1) - S7-E25
Corrected entry: When Picard is in the past and encounters Data for the first time, he calls him "commander Data". But as can be seen by the insignia on Data's collar (two pips, where a commander has three), he is only a lieutenant at this point. But for some reason nobody corrects this, not even Data, who is exceptionally accurate on all Starfleet protocol.
Correction: Data reported to the Enterprise-D as a Lt. Commander. Referring to him as Commander is an accepted practice.
12th Nov 2004
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Corrected entry: When Jin orders the first dance, many musicians turn up for one performance by one girl. Does the brothel keeps a full orchestra ready for every girl whenever she is going to dance? Do other girls wait for the orchestra, or do they have their own musicians on stand-by? This performance should not be confused with the prepared "Echo game".
Correction: The musicians that turn up for the first dance are all show girls from the brothel who have some musical training. Brothels were entertainment houses, so girls had to be able to dance and play music, as well as the obvious talents needed.
2nd Jan 2004
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Corrected entry: There is a long scene where we are explained to in painstakingly minute detail that the Army has built a huge computer to decrypt the aliens' language into English, and that it is impossible to understand the aliens without this computer. But later on, there is much dialogue between aliens and humans inside the saucer.
Correction: Just before the guys enter the ship, Eros tells Tanya to turn on the "Dictorobetary" so they can communicate with them.
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Correction: It was explained by Data to Picard that everybody on the ship was devolving into a different creature from their planets origins. Worf is a Klingon which explains why he was turning into a hard shelled creature and Deana was part Betazoid explaining her transformation into a frog-like creature. Everybody who was human on the ship would turn into a different species from Earth. Riker a caveman, Ogawa an ape and Reggie a spider.