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Continuity mistake: Just after the ship is first attacked, Scotty tells McCoy, "We can't fire full phasers with our screens up." Say what? The Enterprise couldn't operate transporters with the shields up, but it fired its phasers, full or otherwise, with the screens up every time it went into battle, and always had. If they'd been forced to shut their shields down every time they fired, the Enterprise would have been history long before this. (00:23:30)
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Factual error: How do the Eminiarians fire a weapon based on sound ("Decibels - 18 to the 12th power") up into the vacuum of space at the Enterprise?
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Plot hole: The ambassador and his aide beam down to the planet. This would not be possible because earlier on Scotty refused to lower the screens/shields until the Captain told him to do so. It had already been established in an earlier episode titled "Arena" that transporters don't work with screens up. (00:32:40)
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: At the end of the teaser, Kirk orders Yellow Alert, but the Red Alert alarm sounds.
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Visible crew/equipment: When Mea 3 escorts Kirk and his landing party to Anan 7 and members of the High Council, while the group enters the room the actors' marks are visible on the black rug, as they all stand at their marks. (00:06:55)
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: The chamber the guards try to shove Fox in is open when Spock shoos everyone away. But it's closed when he goes to blast it.
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: At the door, as Spock gives Yeoman Tamura her orders, his hands are in front of him. In the close up, they are suddenly by his sides.
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Revealing mistake: It is easy to tell where the matte painting and live action area meet when Fox and the assistant appear.
A Taste of Armageddon - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: The landing party had been apprehended and placed in a locked room under the supervision of a single guard. Spock manages to free them and Kirk knocks out this guard, leaving him in the locked room. Later on in the episode, they return to this very room and somehow this guard is gone. He could not have woken up and walked out because it is a locked room and Kirk took his key. (00:23:45)
Chosen answer: If they're in orbit, they're being pulled along by the planet's gravity well, therefore, impulse engines would only be used for minor corrections and would be "on standby" while in orbit, but not active. (Like keeping your car idling without revving the engine and creating plumes of exhaust).
Captain Defenestrator
Thank you for the info.
Movie Nut