What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek?

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The 2009 movie. Just, like, the whole thing.

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• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Klingons look very different through the various shows. And more than just costuming progress of the time.

  TOS: Image

  TNG-era, the one I think most people would think of: Image

  Discovery: Image

  And the latest show, Academy, reverts back to TNG-era style Klingons.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is the cannon explanation for tos to tng change being a skin disease or something that has infected the whole population?

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    • Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No that is actually somewhat the explanation why they look more human. It is explained in Enterprise, the Klingons try to create some super soldier serum, but that kills them. Phlox helps them create a cure, but that makes them look more humanoid. I think at the end of the episode they say that it might take centuries to revert this effect

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    • themoken@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Enterprise established it as a result of Klingons experimenting with human augment DNA and it getting out of hand. It probably didn’t need to be addressed in universe, but I thought it was a fun retcon.

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• aldhissla@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  So how big are DS9 and the Defiant actually? The scales were all over the place.

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• SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The warp scale changed. The Enterprise exceeded warp 10 several times in the Original Series. Then that infamous episode of Voyager claims that warp 10 is a theoretical limit which is difficult to reach and literally impossible to exceed.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you mean like new zealand missing in first contact?

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  • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Obviously you’re going to cloak the facility where you keep your most hardened criminals.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      elsewhere in the film, new zealand is on a map shown on a display.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I contend that it is not actually missing, it’s just not visible from that perspective. When I recreate the shot in Google Earth only the extreme north tip of New Zealand is actually visible:

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      There’s a lot north of Auckland, its a 5 and a half hour drive to Cape Reinga

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• Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The church in Discovery.

  I am convinced that they put it there without having an explanation yet, then forgot they did it when they made the explanation.

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  • themoken@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ugh, Discovery just made no sense in a million ways. My (least) favorite is how Control was sentient AI like a century before Data was a thing, or even M-5. That and every time Section 31 was acknowledged as Starfleet black ops instead of a rogue agency of assholes.

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    • Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Let’s not forget the part where they want to go in the future to stop control because they think they can’t destroy it, then control gets destroyed, then they go in the future anyway.

      Also, I don’t think any star trek depicted section 31 in a way that didn’t make the show worse, but Discovery really went the extra mile

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• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I enjoyed a couple of seasons of Ben Sisko’s heavily-implied-to-be-dead dad.

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  • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How’s that?

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