Star Trek: Voyager

Unforgettable - S4-E22

Corrected entry: Why must Chakotay use a pen and paper to record his memories of Kellin? There is no justifiable reason that his recorded voice should not be able to be preserved just because he's talking about Kellin.

Birdzip

Correction: This is explained in the same episode - when she left with the fugitives they planted a virus in the computer that wiped out all traces and records. Presumably this same method would be employed by the security force that was to retrieve her.

Unforgettable - S4-E22

Corrected entry: If Kellin spent multiple weeks on the ship, certainly there would be security surveillance evidence that she was there. Even if she didn't visually show up on the video, people would be seen interacting with an invisible someone. Similarly, the Doctor would either be able to see her and remember or not be able to see her and figure out that people were interacting with an invisible person. And what about the ship's logs? People would certainly have talked about her in their logs.

Birdzip

Correction: It is mentioned in episode that not only can the memories about her race not be retained by the few other species that they meet, it is also stated that they upload viruses into the computers of any species they meet in order to erase all knowledge of them from all databases (including sensor logs, sensor scans, crew logs and presumably the EMHs memory circuits). This is why Chakotay writes his final log entry for this incident by hand so that it can't be erased.

Year of Hell (2) - S4-E9

Corrected entry: When we see the now blind Tuvok shaving, he is using a metal blade, the type still used today, and promptly cuts himself with it. However in TNG, Geordi La Forge (also blind, but using a VISOR) is shown using a bladeless razor with a little light beam that wouldn't cut him. One of these should be available on Voyager, over 10 years later. Lack of power can't a problem, as Tuvok had the lights in his room on the whole time, despite not needing them on account of being blind.

Correction: It has been shown on a number of occasions that some species and cultures prefer to use a blade to shave. Vulcans do so as part of their mental control.

Waking Moments - S4-E13

Corrected entry: There is a crewmember in a pink dress in sickbay in one scene, by the holo emitter near the doors. Clearly having nothing to do with the episode.

Correction: She's one of the crew members who were trapped in a dream. She was talking to another crew member who was trapped after both had woken up.

Retrospect - S4-E17

Corrected entry: During the negations in the number of isolinear chips, Captian Janeway says 150, which is then repeated by Kovin before Janeway gives the settled on price of 125 chips.

Correction: She actually says 115. She first offers 100, he says 150, she says 115, then they agree on 125.

Correction: This episode is set in the holodeck, not in 1940s Germany. It is likely the programmer felt the car was close enough to the period to be included.

Correction: This is a holodeck simulation. Anachronisms can crop up just like in movies.

Year of Hell (2) - S4-E9

Corrected entry: When Chakotay's comet removal simulation erases 8,000 civilizations, Annorax tells him that 4 billion years before, material from the comet was the catalyst for the eventual development of several civilizations. However, comets, by their very nature, are short-lived, around 10,000 years. There is no way a comet that seeded life across multiple solar systems 4 billion years earlier would still exist.

Guy

Correction: Not entirely correct. The typical dynamical lifetime of a comet is about 500,000 years, which of course, can vary. After its dynamical lifetime, the comet becomes a dead comet, Once a comet has lost all of its available volatile materials, its coma and tail will disappear and the remaining inert nucleus will take on the appearance of an asteroid. Since it is never mentioned what type of comet they are discussing, the scenario is plausible.

wizard_of_gore

The Killing Game (2) - S4-E19

Corrected entry: Near the end of the episode, when the holoemitters are overloaded, all of the holographic people disappear. However, the buildings, streets etc. which were also created by the holodeck remain. They should have disappeared, too.

Birdzip

Correction: This is not an error, Cannon indicates that replicator technology, force-fields, and light are used in holodeck creations, The building components, being relatively static, would require less power to replicate and place than to continually project.

The Omega Directive - S4-E21

Corrected entry: When Janeway visits Seven as she works to destroy the Omega molecules in the chamber, Seven reports that 11% have been neutralized. They then have a 1 minute, 10 second discussion, and when it's over, Seven states that 18% of the molecules have now been neutralized. Janeway comments, while checking the computer screen, that at the current rate, "this could take hours". Actually, at the current rate, it will take less than 15 minutes. (00:38:20 - 00:39:30)

johnrosa

Correction: It's possible that the progress is not linear. As fewer molecules remain, it may become harder and slower to neutralize them. There are many situations where that happens in Real Life. For example, killing bacteria or filtering out impurities, where it's quick and easy to remove many, but very hard to remove them all.

ironcito

One - S4-E25

Corrected entry: In other episodes once the doctor has been deactivated outside sickbay his mobile emitter falls to the ground and we see it. In this episode in engineering when the doctor is deactivated we don't see the emitter.

Correction: In "The Killing Game" Hirogen & some Starfleet crewmembers install holo-emitters thoughout most of the ship, including corridors, the mess hall, astrometrics & engineering (we know this as one of the Hirogen hunters brings a rifle into engineering). The holo-emitters should still be working.

There is no evidence that what the Hirogen did to Voyager was retained. We can only assume that Voyager's reset button returned the ship to factory settings after "The Killing Game." Indeed, the Doctor always wore his mobile emitter when in engineering throughout the rest of the show.

Correction: The ships systems are being affected by the nebula they're flying through, this could be a effect of this.

The Omega Directive - S4-E21

Corrected entry: Seven of Nine has said before that the Borg only assimilate information, they do not create it on their own, ie. they do not research. But in this episode, she says that the Borg had sacrificed 27 cubes and 600,000 drones while researching the Omega Molecule.

Correction: Perhaps the 27 cubes and 600,000 drones were lost trying to assimilate the Omega Molecule or the technology required to create it. Or they assimilated the technology to create it, but lost all those ships and drones trying to make it. Either of those could be classified as "research" by the Borg.

Day of Honor - S4-E3

Corrected entry: How could Tom and B'Elanna transport themselves from the shuttle into space using voice command if the comm system was down?

Correction: Because Federation ships are designed to make sure that the passengers survive - they have several safety mechanisms so whilst other systems could go off line the emergency transporter should be one of the last things to go and often comes with its own power & certain systems.

Correction: The comm system in Star Trek is generally regarded as the means to talk to other ships/crewmembers not in the room. Talking to the computer is regarded as a separate system. I find it more strange that for once the transporter wasn't the first thing to break.

Scientific Method - S4-E7

Corrected entry: In the episode "Scientific Method" where cloaked aliens were doing medical experiments on the crew, wait for the part where Seven goes into the turbolift and she says "Deck 5". When the turbolift doors open she gets out and walks to the Mess Hall to pour a cup of coffee. How can she be in the Mess Hall if she is on Deck 5. The Mess Hall is on Deck 2 right below the bridge.

Correction: Seven is going to sickbay (deck five). After a while another crewmember enters the lift & is being experimented on. She is the reason Seven leaves the lift on deck two.

Message in a Bottle - S4-E14

Corrected entry: When both Doctors are on the bridge and they get fired on by the Romulans they deactivate the life support system. Later, Federation officers transported onto the bridge and for some unknown reason, the life support system is back online. Wouldn't the Federation officers be having trouble breathing without any life support?

Correction: They turned off the life support but did not evacuate the air. So the air is still there. The boarding party would have to turn life support back on but they could survive for a period of time without it on.

Elogium - S2-E4

Plot hole: In this episode Kes states that she has to decide now whether to have a child or not because Ocampa women can only get pregnant once and deliver one child. If that was the case they would have died out a long time ago, or never even evolved, as two people only getting one offspring would reduce the population to 50% of the original figure each generation.

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Suggested correction: It's also possible that it's simply required of Ocampan women to give birth the first time they go through it, and can then experience it again.

Greg Dwyer

Nothing in the dialogue suggest Ocampa's can have additional children. While we can speculate about fictitious species, it's still a plot hole due to writing. Kes states she's going through the "elogium" which is a time of change where her body prepares for fertilization. She then explicit states the "elogium" only occurs once. While the doctor compares it to puberty, the elogium is both sexual maturity and "heat", that is, the time a female is ready for fertilization.

Bishop73

But it doesn't ever state the normalcy of birthing for Ocompans. Perhaps sextuplets is the norm?

Kes frequently used the word "child." If it was normal to give birth to more than one, she would know this and should say "children."

Bishop73

Do not forget that this is all done through the universal translator. For all you know the Ocompan word for child and children is the same so the translator cannot tell the difference.

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Thirty Days - S5-E9

Question: Was Tom successful in his mission or did the torpedo that was launched by Tuvok from Voyager stop him from succeeding?

Answer: The torpedo stopped him from succeeding.

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