Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) - 74 corrections

starring Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Patrick Stewart, Wil Wheaton (add more)

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Who Watches The Watchers (series 3)

Entry The Mintakans are stated to be at Bronze Age level of technology. However, while Riker is escaping with the injured Palmer, the pursuing Mintakan is carrying a 20th-century compound bow (a bow with pulleys). It is simply not possible to make a compound bow with Bronze Age technology. [Pulleys can be made of wood. The strength\flexibility of the alien wood is unknown. I see no connection between bronze age and a compound bow. Just because no one on Earth had one in the bronze age doesn't mean every single species in the universe is incapable of making one.]
Corrected by Rlvlk Time

Evolution (series 3)

Entry As the Enterprise twists so that she is facing away from the matter stream as it is drawn in, Picard orders "reverse engines." That would drive her closer into the stream, not further away. [Picard orders 'reverse engines' when the ship is oriented just about parallel to the stream. Geordi apparently misunderstands amid the noise of the engine room, answering 'Initiating reverse sequence now', then the ship turns to face away from the stream (apparently the 'reverse sequence' is akin to 'reverse course', not 'reverse engines'). On the bridge, Picard realizes they are drifting rearward into the stream. He doesn't seem upset that Geordi didn't correctly follow the order, but then his focus is on the imminent danger the ship is in. No error.]
Corrected by John W Rosa Time

Redemption (1) (series 4)

Entry When Gowron's ship is being attacked, Data says that their port shields are down, and that "they are unlikely to survive another attack from that quarter." The very next shot, Gowron's ship receives 5 shots to the port quarter, all of which are dissipated by the shields which are supposed to be down. [Given that forward and aft shields exist, too, it can be argued that the seams where the shields merge or overlap would be approximately in the 10:30, 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 positions (looking down on the ship with its bow at 12:00). I would further argue that forward shields might be wider, perhaps to the 10:00 and 2:00 positions, but failing that- Of the five volleys fired, one hits the starboard side. Two more hit the forward shields. The remaining two may or may not have been between the 9:00 and 10:30 positions (as the attacker was well forward of Gowron's ship). Too close to call, but assuming they did indeed get through, Data said 'unlikely', not 'impossible', and his next statement is that Gowron's life support system has failed. That sure sounds like 'not surviving' if left unattended to quickly. We may not have seen the hits, but they apparrently got through since life support was knocked out. No error.]
Corrected by John W Rosa Time
Entry Guinan says her goal is to make Worf laugh, yet she already has - in Worf's only scene in "Yesterday's Enterprise" when she says that some women aboard the Enterprise might find him "tame." [When the Enterprise C is sent back to the past, several changes were made (the captain died, Tasha Yar was present, repairs were made), Based on the Butterfly Effect, this could have caused minor changes in the normal timeline (when time is restored, Geordi is sitting where Worf was, so maybe Worf never went to Ten-Forward in that timeline).]
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In Theory (series 4)

Entry When Data works with the photon torpedo, he holds the tool with his left hand. The woman helping him puts a black box on the torpedo and leaves. When Data stands up, the box is gone and the tool is now in his right hand. [The shot changes to the woman wherein Data could easily have swapped the tool over. No error here.]
Corrected by John W Rosa Time

Reunion (series 4)

Entry K'mpec says that Romulans and Klingons have been blood enemies for 75 years. However, Worf had said that the two were still allies during the Khitomer massacre, when he was young. [In another episode Warf says "Klingons and Romulans are blood enemies.have been for centuries." It's a matter of perspective. While they may have tenuous temporary alliances and treaties, the majority of Klingons and Romulans still despise each other, and consider one another enemies.]
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Brothers (series 4)

Entry In the scene where Data is on the bridge being contacted by Picard, and when he speaks to the computer to gives orders is impossible. All the air has been removed from the bridge, yet sound can still travel through the air (though we allow poetic license that exploding ships make sounds). [The air has not been sucked from the bridge - the life-support has simply been shut off. The air on the bridge would quickly become unbreathable, hence the evacuation, but it's still there. As such, sound will be able to travel normally.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time

The Next Phase (series 5)

Entry In the episode "the Next Phase" Geordi & Ro are made intangible through contact with an experimental shield generator. They pass through all solid objects but for some reason are still able to stand on the decks of the ship. On several occasions they & the Romulan in the same situation pass through the walls but not the floors of the Enterprise. Can't be the gravity generators or they'd be pulled through the floor of upper decks. [This has been submitted and corrected before. If Geordi and Ro are breaking several laws of physics by walking through walls and being invisible, why can't the thing about not falling through the floor be another law they're breaking? Also, they are "cloaked," and when Romulan ships are cloaked, the crewmembers don't fall through floors.]
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Entry Picard talks about an incident that happened to Ensign Ro on Garon IV, but in "Conundrum" and "Ensign Ro", it's said that the incident occured on Garon II. [We have to assume that Ro was correct about the incident. Therefore, Picard made a mistake.]
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Entry Ensign Ro and Geordi are invisible and are able to pass through solid objects; they can not physically touch anything. Yet when Ro visits her piloting station, she touches the console without her hand going through it. [She doesn't touch the console, she merely brushes her hand along it as if to touch it.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez Time

Cause and Effect (series 5)

Entry Every time Data suggests using the tractor beam to alter the other ship's course, Picard immediately says, "Make it so," and Worf immediately engages it. The final time that they go through the time loop, however, Data has a good 8-10 seconds, after making his initial suggestion, to realize that Riker's strategy is better. Why did Picard and Worf hesitate so long this time? [In each sequence but the last, the scene quickly cuts to the Bozeman hitting the nacelle, but in the last loop, the camera stays on the bridge. One can assume that when the camera cut to the collision, it skipped that 8-10 seconds it took to activate the tractor beam. (Also, all main systems went down, so they back-up tractor beam may have taken extra time).]
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Entry When Riker suggests blowing open the cargo bay to avoid the other ship, his lips don't move. [Riker suggests this three times, and all three times his lips move just fine. It is hard to see the first time because of the distance between him and the camera, but his mouth is moving as it should.]
Corrected by Twotall Time

Power Play (series 5)

Entry In the Episode 'Power Play' there is a scene where Worf and two security guards are running through a corridor on their way to Deck 13. Just as the scene starts, a man in tan pants, a maroon button-down shirt, and a brown belt is walking down the center of the corridor alone. As Worf and the guards enter the corridor a split-second later, the man turns around, sees them coming, and gets out of the way by pressing himself against the left wall of the corridor. I'm guessing that it's an incorrectly-dressed actor? [That is not an incorrectly dressed actor. There are many civilians and families onboard the Enterprise, or he could have been an off duty officer.]
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Conundrum (series 5)

Entry The crew manifest lists Dr. Crusher's rank as "Lieutenant Commander", but her 3 rank insignia show her to be a Commander. [MacDuff, the alien, changed some computer logs. He inserted himself as first officer and dropped Riker's position. He could have altered Crusher's rank too. (They had no idea what the rank insignias meant. That memory was erased.)]
Corrected by Rlvlk Time
Entry The databank refers to Troi's father as "Alex Troi," but in "The Child" and later in "Dark Page" her father's name was Ian Troi. [MacDuff had to alter the computer files in order to insert himself, demote Riker and add the information about the "Lysian War." It's possible that he ended up messing up some other files while he was at it, and no-one would have noticed anything wrong because their memories had been wiped.]
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A Matter of Time (series 5)

Entry When Data is listening to all the classical music in his room, he says he tries to keep the number of songs to "four or less." Data, who has perfect grammar, should have said "four or fewer." [Data has always longed to be more human. In his efforts he speaks more like humans with the exception of not using contractions. No human would ever say four or fewer.]
Corrected by Boobra Time

Darmok (series 5)

Entry Phaser fire is seen coming out of the forward photon torpedo launcher in this episode. [Actually, the Phaser fire comes from just above the Torpedo launcher. This actually makes sense. The bottom hull of the ship is known as the Battle Section. When the ship seperates, the Saucer becomes the "Lifeboat", carrying the familes and children out of harm's way. Undoubtedly, Phasers are placed everywhere possible on the Battle Section, since without the huge power drain from the Saucer Section the Battle Section would be able to field large numbers of Phaser Projectors.]
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Entry When 'the entity' hits Picard, it swings its arm high, and Picard flies back as such. However, Picard is hurt across the lower chest in the next shot. Also, it's only a flesh wound which doesn't make sense because the monster was hitting to kill. [As to the second, Captain Dathon did not die in one blow. The entity appeared to have straddled him and pummeled him severely about the head and neck. It took him some time to die.]
Corrected by Rlvlk Time

Lessons (series 6)

Entry In the jeffries tube junction, one branch of the tube is an obvious fake. [Where, when and why? Too non-specific (tho I am aware of the production's practice of using background art to fake longer corridors and such, a more specific example is required here)]
Corrected by John W Rosa Time

Birthright (1) (series 6)

Entry When Data is hit by the power from the alien device the second time the camera zooms in on his face. The interface cable that was previously attached to his head is gone, later when he wakes back up, the cable is reattached. [The cable could have easily been blown off by the energy discharge, and reconnected by the crew to help diagnose Data's condition after the blast.]
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