Corrected entry: In TNG, after the Enterprise defeated the Borg at Earth it became standard Starfleet procedure to modulate shield frequencies to prevent an enemy from matching weapon harmonics to shield frequencies (this allows a weapon to pass through the shields and directly strike the ship) In Generations, the Klingons acquired the Enterprises shield frequencies and matched their weapons to them, thus destroying the Enterprise-D.
Garlonuss
27th Aug 2001
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
27th Aug 2001
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Corrected entry: The reactor compartment can be seen though a window and billowing steam or smoke is visible. While a neat effect, the steam produced in a reactor is contained in piping. Smoke or steam visible is a very "bad" thing - like 3 mile island or Chernobyl.
Correction: I can't find any smoke or steam. Which reactor are you referring to? If you are referring to the nuclear reactor on the Enterprise, then a timecode would be greatly appreciated. However, if you are referring to the reactor on the Bounty, that is a Matter/Antimatter reactor mediated by dilithium crystals and does not necessarily follow the same rules as a nuclear reactor.
16th Feb 2004
The Lion King (1994)
Corrected entry: Pumba supposedly became an outcast because he smelled so bad, and he apparently still does because Timon often makes references to it. But neither Simba, Nala, nor any of the other animals meeting him for the first time react to his smell in any way. Of course they wouldn't make a big deal out of it if they're trying to be polite, but you'd think if he smelled that bad they'd have some reaction.
7th May 2003
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Corrected entry: When the elevators break down, since they never existed, wouldn't everyone mentally forget about elevators?
Correction: This is done as a mere shadow of the way that Stuart has influenced history. Ripples, as it were, in the pond of time rather than the actual splash. Since Leopold does in fact go back and invent the elevator, they would then exist in the future. When dealing with time travel, just because an event hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it's effects haven't already happened. It's the same reason why Kate shows up in Stuart's photos in the present before she goes back to the past.
28th Jan 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: When Harry finds the final entrance to the Chamber Of Secrets, you see a round door. This door is held closed by somewhere around five serpents which go off the edge of the door and onto the wall. therefore if you were to push the door they would keep the door from opening. There is one problem though, the door opens outwards and therefore the snakes do nothing to stop the door from opening. Since there are no snakes that act as locks on the inside of the door, the entrance apparantly was never really locked.
21st Jan 2004
Paycheck (2003)
Corrected entry: The bullet that is fired at Ben and shown time and time again from the future is a whole bullet. It still has the casing on it; only the tip fires out of a gun.
Correction: There is no casing on the bullet after it is fired. It looks a little like there is because there is a circular groove on the butt of the bullet, but the casing for the bullet is missing. When they show the bullet in the gun, the casing is wider at the bottom, tapering in towards the bullet half way up its length. After it is fired, the bullet shows completely straight sides - no ridge that the casing would have presented.
20th Jan 2004
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Geordi and Picard discuss the possible reasons for Data's malfunction, Picard asks if it could be because of his emotion chip. Geordi replies with "He didn't take it with him". But in Star Trek Generations Picard's own log entry has him state "His (data's ) emotion chip has been fused into his neural net and can NOT be removed." In other words Data could not "not take it with him."
Correction: A fused circuit is fixable. The reason it wasn't removed in Generations is because 1- they didn't have time, and 2- Geordi, their engineer and the man most qualified for working with Data's positronic net, was indisposed, having been kidnapped and tortured by Soren. It is quite possible that, when they had the time, they were able to work with the circuit and remove it.
14th Jan 2004
Frequency (2000)
Corrected entry: How could the killer have left fingerprints on the wallet if he got his hand blown off?
Correction: The fingerprints were left on the wallet when Frank was beaten up in the bathroom before getting framed for the murder of Sissy Clark. The hand wasn't blown off until Frank convinced Satch of the real killer who later showed up at the Sullivan household. Even if the order was the other way round, fingerprints are found on both hands and he only lost one.
6th Jan 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Corrected entry: When Frodo goes invisible in Mount Doom and is fighting with Gollum, why are footprints even made? His feet are not wet and the ground is hard rock - this is simply a cinematic effect to show where he is; there is no justification for the footprints other than this.
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Correction: Yes, but how did they get those frequencies? They were looking through Geordi's eyes. And he is the one most likely to be modulating the shield frequencies. They could have been changing their weapons frequencies as they watched him modulate.
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