Corrected entry: When Kirk and Jay-lah appear on the bike they are already travelling at speed. This is impossible, as they would have had to enter the transporter room at speed, not possible with the Franklin's transporter.
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15th Aug 2016
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
1st Aug 2016
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Corrected entry: When the Franklin is in freefall from the cliff, all of the bridge crew are leaning forward, but they should be being pushed back into their seats.
Correction: Think about it...they are falling DOWNWARDS towards the ground so surely gravity would be pulling them forward, in the same way that when they were going UP gravity would be pushing them back into their seats. And yes acceleration may be a factor but the countering forces would not be enough at this point to push them back into their seats.
Chiming in even though I haven't seen the movie. Two objects will accelerate in a fall at the same rate unless acted upon by different forces (see Galileo circa 1590). At best the crew should be weightless since gravity is acting equally on them and the ship, not pushed backwards, but the ship would likely have forces pushing back against its fall, like air resistance, so the crew would be pulled forward by gravity more than the ship - more so the faster the fall since air resistance against the ship would increase. It's like your parachute falls relatively equally to you until you increase its air resistance by deploying the chute.
Correction: The ship wasn't moving very quickly as it broke free, so it's likely the crewmen were hunching forward so they wouldn't be pushed back in their seats and away from the controls... The same thing would apply as the ship fell off the cliff. The acceleration wouldn't be enough to overpower them, even in free fall.
1st Aug 2016
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Corrected entry: At the end when the attacking ships have their communications interrupted by the music, surprisingly Spock and Bones' ship isn't affected.
Correction: As all of the enemy ships did not instantly explode the instant the music started, it's reasonable to assume that Spock and McCoy would be able to evade the signal (I believe that was mentioned in the movie)... It's also reasonable to assume the Spock would figure out a way to disable the connection so their ship would not be in danger.
16th Jul 2015
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Corrected entry: Aaron Cross never reveals to Dr. Marta that his name is Aaron. He tells her to call him James. At the airport, however, when he calls her from the terminal, she calls him Aaron.
Correction: Aaron doesn't reveal his real name to Marta on screen, although he does specifically tell her his name isn't James when they were discussing their fake identities. It's reasonable to assume he told her his real name sometime after that discussion during the trip to the airport.
9th Sep 2002
Minority Report (2002)
Corrected entry: When Anderton is about to have his eyes replaced, the "doctor" swipes his credit card. Wouldn't the police use everything possible to find him, including the use of his credit card?
Correction: The doctor stated that there wasn't very much money in the account when his nurse swiped the card. Anderton said that he had moved as much money as he could safely move, so it's reasonable to assume Anderton moved the money to something like a gift card, which couldn't be traced back to him.
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Correction: In the first movie, the transporter was used to rescue Kirk and Sulu in the middle of a long fall...They didn't splatter on the transport pad when they materialized, so it's reasonable to assume the transporter can compensate for relative velocity of the object being transported...And it also would be reasonable that an object can be beamed giving it a relative velocity as well.
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