Star Trek (1966) - 36 corrections

starring DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, William Shatner (add more)

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Entry Romulans come from the planet Romulus, which has a nearby twin called Remus. These planets are named for the mythical founders of Rome, the twin sons of the war god Mars and the Vestal Rhea Silvia. But Romulans would not know about ancient Earth history, so it seems unlikely that they would name their planets after our mythology and refer to themselves as "Romulans." [They didn't, any more than the Vulcans chose to name their planet after the Roman god of fire. These are simply the names given to those worlds by the humans - the universal translator is programmed to use Romulus and Remus to replace the true names of the planets. The same follows with the species name.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Entry Jeffrey Hunter, who played Jesus in King of Kings, was the original captain of the USS Enterprise, namely Christopher Pike. [This is hardly trivia. He played Pike in the rejected pilot, which was subsequently released (and used in flashbacks), so anyone watching would know this.]
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Court Martial (series 1)

Entry In the bar scene where Kirk gets the cold shoulder from his Academy classmates, those men seem to be wearing Enterprise badges on their tunics, rather than the badges of their proper ships. [Given the number of ships in the fleet many of the insignia are likely very similar. The differences may not be obvious at this distance.]
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Tomorrow is Yesterday (series 1)

Entry Why do Sulu and Kirk beam down into the Air Force base in standard Starfleet uniforms? On later such missions (Assignment: Earth - Patterns of Force) they have suitable clothing made up, but here they just stand out like sore thumbs. [In the other episodes mentioned, they were trying to blend in with the people on the planet. In this episode, it was a covert mission. They did not plan to see anyone so what they wore was unimportant.]
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The Galileo Seven (series 1)

Entry Just before Kirk talks to Spock inside the shuttle, he walks across the bridge, you can see Spock at his station on the bridge, then Kirk talks to him in the shuttle. [The person you see behind Kirk is not Spock, it is simply a dark haired person in a blue uniform who has replaced Spock at his station. There is a quick glimpse of his ears and they are not pointed.]
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The Conscience of the King (series 1)

Entry When Spock talks about his ancestors, McCoy comments that they were "conquered." Not only does Spock later say (in "The Immunity Syndrome") that Vulcans have never been conquered, but we've never heard anything in Star Trek or its sequels mentioning Vulcan's "conquest." And yet Spock doesn't mention that McCoy is in error - something he never refuses the opportunity to do. [Maybe McCoy was referring to The Vulcan Renaissance, mentioned in a 3-episode arc of Enterprise. It was discovered that the Romulans were corrupting the Vulcan High Command, causing them to stray from Surak's teachings. To McCoy, this could have been a "conquest".]
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The Menagerie (2) (series 1)

Entry At the end of part 1, Starfleet relieves Kirk of command and tells him and everyone else to stop viewing the Talosian transmissions during the court martial. At the beginning they say they can't stop the transmissions, go back into the courtroom, and watch them anyway. Why don't they just go to a different room, or cover the screen with a cloth? [Keep in mind the entire situation was being controlled by the Talosians. Even the commodor was an illusion created by them.]
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The Corbomite Maneuver (series 1)

Entry Kirk calls the Enterprise the "United Earth Ship" (U.E.S.) Enterprise, he should have said "United Space Ship" (U.S.S.) [In the Enterprise episode "The Forge," we see the Earth embassy on Vulcan is called the "United Earth Embassy." Since United Earth was a term in widespread use, many people may still use it occasionally, like Kirk did in this episode.]
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The Naked Time (series 1)

Entry Spock starts to lose control of his emotions and is desperately struggling with himself. He goes into a room and the automatic doors open for him. As they close behind him, Spock leans back against the doors. The doors should sense something approaching and open again, depositing our heroic Vulcan on his back in the corridor. [Throughout all Star Trek series, it is obvious that the computer monitors doors, and knows when to open them or not. For example, the doors of someone's quarters don't automatically open when a visitor arrives, the doors stay closed while the person 'rings the doorbell'. So, when someone leans back against a set of doors, the computer would keep them shut, to avoid the person falling backwards.]
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Where No Man Has Gone Before (series 1)

Entry When Kirk fired the phaser rifle the second time, we continue hearing the sound even though the beam had stopped. [Of course. Light travels faster than sound. We see the light from the phaser disappear well before we'd hear the sound stop, just as we see lightning before we hear thunder.]
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Entry At the beginning, Kirk is talking about the Valiant having only impulse power so it didn't have enough power to leave the galaxy. Given the size of the galaxy and Kirk later saying that since the Enterprise was now on impulse power "that planets that were only hours away are now months away", it would take the Valiant about 200 years to get to the edge of the galaxy, thus arriving about the same time as the Enterprise. Also, the Valiant would have had to be launched around 1966. [At some point the Valiant encountered a magnetic storm and was swept towards the edge of Galactic barrier because its impulse engines were not strong enough. It was swept ½ lightyear out of the galaxy, thrown clear, and then turned and headed back into the galaxy. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/SS_Valiant]
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Entry When the Enterprise reaches the lithium processing plant on Delta Vega, a deserted planet that even the ore ships only visit every twenty years, why do they have lots of control panels, many rooms, and a BRIG at the processing plant? All of which work? [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Delta_Vega. There is no listing for when the site was built. At the time it was built, it could have been manned and then left to automatic control.]
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Entry When the Enterprise is heading outside the galaxy, from the scene showing the ship at the edge of the galaxy, it looks like the ship could easily go over or under the pink area and solve the whole problem. Of course, it would have been a pretty short show. [The pink boundary at the edge of the galaxy is only shown from the same plane of space the Enterprise is at. If the Enterprise tried to go up or down the pink boundary would still be there.]
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The Man Trap (series 1)

Entry Despite the fact that McCoy has a tricorder that can scan for life forms, Kirk orders him to return to the Enterprise to scan for life forms there. [The tricorder can only scan the immediate area, but from the ship he can scan the entire planet.]
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Entry When McCoy tell Kirk that the dead crewman has no salt in his body, the blood pressure gauge was almost all the way up, that would mean that there was too much salt in his body. [A dead person cannot have any sort of an accurate blood pressure reading.]
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Bread and Circuses (series 2)

Entry We hear about "Hodgkin's' Law of Parallel Planet Development" but it still seems unlikely that this planet is going to have the same names for its deities as Earth's ancient Rome. [The Universal Translators adapt indigenous languages and terms into the closest Terran equivalent. The planet's deities' names may have been different.]
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The Ultimate Computer (series 2)

Entry When the M-5 computer goes crazy and starts shooting at the other starships, Commodore Wesley INSTANTLY concludes that Capt. Kirk has lost his mind and is trying to kill everyone. Not even for one second does the Commodore think that the M-5, which is going through it's trial test and which has complete control of the ship, is the cause of the problem. [Kirk was supposed to be able to activate and deactivate the M-5 at will; so the Commodore probably thinks that Kirk still has control of the ship and the M-5, and is giving the order himself to attack the other ships.]
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A Piece of the Action (series 2)

Entry The U.S.S. Horizon wasn't violating the prime directive, the prime directive was formed in 2253. [The episode never claimed that it did. The episode revolved around the concept that damage had been done before the prime directive was in place.]
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The Gamesters of Triskelion (series 2)

Entry For not knowing anything about the concept of "kissing," Shahna reacts just like a normal human would (closes eyes, leans forward, drops her jaw.) [Purely a reflex, not a mistake. While she may not have done it before, she seems to respond to it just fine. But then, she is a humanoid, so why expect her reflexes to be that different?]
Corrected by John W Rosa Time

The Trouble With Tribbles (series 2)

Entry Kirk says the Klingons will always be accompanied by an equal number of security guards, but there are no security guards present during the bar fight. [With the appearance of the Klingons, it is likely that Kirk ordered his crew members on shore leave to keep an eye on their counterparts. As you may notice, as Chekov, Scotty and their companion enter the bar, two other Enterprise members take their leave; obviously the guards supposed to watch the Klingons in the bar before them.]
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