Corrected entry: When Uhura is holding "Mr. Adventure" at phaser point to let Kirk McCoy and Sulu get away, after she says "This is fantasy!", she is holding the phaser level and steady. As the shot turns to him, watch her hand. It tilts over to her right by about 60 degrees. When the shot goes back to her, it's straight up again.
Grumpy Scot
24th Sep 2013
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
9th Feb 2004
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise self destruct sequence countdown reaches zero, it goes through an elaborate destruct sequence that tears the ship apart and sends the remains plummeting into the atmosphere of the Genesis Planet. Star Trek producers have said that auto-destruct systems involve an intentional release of the matter and anti-matter fuel. This would cause the ship to go up in a sun-like fireball, and there wouldn't be very much wreckage left - certainly not the amount of wreckage seen in the film.
Correction: According to Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (a movie supplement released just after STIV) if the final code is given as "Destruct Zero" (which Kirk does), charges built into the hull, engines and computer will render the ship a useless hulk, making it pointless to capture. If the code used is "Destruct One" the matter-antimatter mix overload is used. Destruct One is for use in deep space where the antimatter explosion won't harm planets or ships nearby.
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Correction: This isn't a mistake, she is taunting him with the phaser for the "career winding down" crack. She has time to snap it back up before the camera comes back. It would take less than a second.
Grumpy Scot