Subject: FAQL: SNAFUs
From: Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 06:05:44 GMT
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Archive-Name: faql.rec.arts.startrek.snafus

             STAR TREK SNAFUs (last updated 4 October 1993)

This posting is intended to cut  down on  the "often  asked questions" that
seem to pop up  every few  months in  the rec.arts.startrek.misc  newsgroup
about messed up scenes.

This FAQL  is basically a list  of SNAFUs  that  have been  brought up  and
discussed to death in rec.arts.startrek.misc, and a lot of  people would be
happy if  they never  resurfaced.   Please refer  to the  "LIST OF PERIODIC
POSINGS TO r.a.s.* NEWSGROUPS" article  for a  full list  of periodic post-
ings, and to the "LIST OF ACRONYMS" article for  acronyms used  in this and
other postings.

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1) TOS SNAFUs
2) MOVIES SNAFUs
3) TNG SNAFUs
4) DS9 SNAFUs
5) MISC SNAFUS
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1) TOS SNAFUs:

"The Apple":  Near the end of the show, when the Big-E fails  to break free
of the tractor beam, Scotty falls  against the  captain's chair  and one of
the floorboards comes up off the floor.

"Assignment Earth":  Kirk (in the briefing room) has Scotty on the tabletop
viewscreen.  Scotty (in Engineering) gives Kirk a report.  Kirk ends the
transmission with Kirk out and reaches to turn off the viewscreen but the
viewscreen turns off before Kirk switches it off.  AI at its finest, eh?
:-)

"By Any Other Name":  In one scene Spock was talking with out moving his
lips.  It occurs when Spock and the Kelvin Rojan are playing chess and they
are discussing Rojan's response to Kirk kissing the Kelvin woman Kelinda.
Initially we see the two characters playing chess and talking, but the view
then switches to close ups of each person's face as they talk.  When Spock
says the line "Captain Kirk seems find her quite attractive" he looks as if
he is thinking about something, but does not say anything.  Must be
telepathy.  :-)

"Charlie X":  Uhura started  singing in  the rec  room.   Kirk (wearing his
gold captains shirt with a  black collar)  is with  Charlie when  he gets a
message to come up to the bridge.  Jim and Charlie get  into the turbolift.
When they  arrive  on  the  bridge,  Jim is  wearing his  green open necked
captain's shirt.

"Charlie X":  We see Charlie lying down flat on the medical exam bed,
pushing those exercise blocks with his legs.  McCoy smiles and looks up at
the medical readout console above the bed and Charlie's unexerted face is
reflected in it at an impossible angle.

"City on the Edge of Forever":  Kirk mentions Orion's belt and points to it
in the sky.  Orion should not be visible in the night sky at that time of
year (according to a calendar shown on a wall) in the US in that year.

"City on the Edge of Forever":  In the panning shot of the city where a
bunch of brick buildings are shown, there is a radiation trident on a sign
on a wall, which normally signifies a fallout shelter.  Fallout shelters
shouldn't exist for *years*.

"The Cloud Minders":  When Kirk and Spock are first captured by the miners,
Kirk says  something like  "What is  the meaning  of this  attack", but his
mouth doesn't move.

"Court-Martial":  Kirk says "Gentlemen, this computer has an auditory
sensor.  It can, in effect, hear sounds.  By installing a booster we can
increase that capability on the order of one to the fourth power" (which
the writers seemed to think sounded more impressive than "one") :-) (and we
just have to assume that the voices were masked out like the heartbeats and
other ship noises were).

"Court-Martial":  At the end when Kirk is fighting Finney, Kirk's shirt is
ripped at his right shoulder but his stunt double's shirt is obviously
undamaged in that area.

"The Enemy Within":  Bad-Kirk's scratch on his face switches sides.

"The Enemy Within":  When Bad-Kirk demands brandy from McCoy, the closeup
show shows him with the Good-Kirk uniform (this one may need to be
verified).

"The Enemy Within":  When Good-Kirk is holding bad Kirk on the transporter
pad, his hands are touching.  Then he talks to Spock and his hands are
apart.  After that, a longshot shows his hands touching again.

"The Enemy Within":  When he's on the planet, Kirk's gold shirt has the
usual emblem on.  When he beams back aboard, the emblem is missing.  He
swoons, and Scotty helps him out of the transporter room.  After the break,
we see Scotty and Kirk in the corridor, and the emblem is back.  (The order
of these may be reversed, but the emblem definitely "winks" in and out.)

"The Lights of Zetar":  Kirk has Romaine put into the  pressure chamber and
increases the pressure one atmosphere per second.  At that rate, she'd have
been crushed like a bug in under a minute.

"Mudd's Women":  When the women are first beamed  up to  the Enterprise, it
flashes back and forth between the women and Scott,  Spock, and  McCoy.  If
you watch it carefully, you will see that they spliced in a  scene of McCoy
standing in sick bay smiling, and he is wearing a different uniform and has
the medical scanner behind him.

"Operation:  Annihilate!":  In a well-known Star Trek outtake (which you
can see on the blooper tapes), the amoeba-creature accidentally hits
Spock's rear end instead of his back.  This scene was re-filmed for the
episode as aired.

"A Piece of the Action":  When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy first beam down to
the planet, a long shot shows the three of them approaching a bench.  Kirk
puts him hand on the bench and McCoy is behind him.  A closer shot follows
that shows McCoy standing behind the bench and then Kirk walks into the
shot, behind McCoy, and then arrives at the bench.

"Return of the Archons":  When the landing party  is hemmed  in by Landru's
legions at  both  ends of  an alley,  Kirk orders  them to  fire (on stun).
McCoy's phaser appears not to fire at all.   I suppose  animation forgot to
do the effect.

"Return of the Archons":  When Kirk's landing party starts running from the
festival, a quick shot shows a rock BOUNCING off the head of one of the
landing party members and up into the air.  Now THAT'S a thick head!

"Return of the Archons":  When the landing party arrive at the hotel, it is
daylight.  Kirk talks a few minutes and then the landing party is escorted
to their room.  The owner opens a window and it is now pitch black outside.
This planet might have a short day/night cycle, but their clock system
seemed to be pretty close to that of the Earth's.

"Shore Leave":  The yeoman gets her uniform torn by Don Juan, and then
changes into the 'princess' costume.  When she changes back into her
uniform again, it has miraculously been repaired.  The rip also switches
from her right shoulder to her left shoulder.

"Shore Leave":  Spock and Kirk are discussing the tiger that was seen and
it appears.  BUT it clearly has a chain around its neck and when it gets
up, the chain is clearly seen to extend toward the ground.

"Shore Leave": In the scene where the caretaker appears for the first time,
you can see the shadow of a boom pass across  the tree in the middle of the
screen.

"Space Seed":  As Kirk is bashing in Khan's glass coffin,  his phaser falls
off his belt.  McCoy  keeps looking  down at  it, like  he's wondering when
they're going to yell 'cut' so they can re-shoot the scene.  They never did
re-shoot because they didn't want to invest in more glass.

"Space Seed":  During the hearing at  the end,  when Kirk  rings the ship's
bell, watch McCoy closely.  He has a strained, silly  grin on  his face, as
if DeForest  Kelley  is  desperately  trying  to  keep  from  bursting  out
laughing.  As Kirk finishes the last  ring, McCoy  sighs, as  if in relief,
and assumes a more appropriate expression.

"The Squire of Gothos":   Trelane  sees Earth  history 900  years late, but
since he talks of Alexander Hamilton's death (1804)  and of  how he admires
Napoleon (whose  reign  started  in  1804).    This  would  put the episode
sometime just after 2704.  This is more than four centuries too late.

"The Ultimate Computer":  Spock and Scotty are in the Jefferies tube and
Kirk and the scientist are below looking at what they are doing.  Kirk is
restraining the scientist.  From the top view, Kirk is holding him by his
arm.  The shot from the floor shows Kirk's arm around his head.

There were numerous episodes where  people's uniforms  changed without them
leaving a room or turbolift ("Charlie X", "The Enemy Within", and "What Are
Little Girls Made of" get mentioned a lot).

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2) MOVIE SNAFUs:

ST:TMP:  You can see the ceiling of the stage they were shooting at in at
least one of the scenes with the Enterprise.  These scenes are in the
extended video version when Kirk leaves the Enterprise in pursuit of Spock.
A portion of the Enterprise hull and airlock was built for the scene.  A
matte painting was to augment this scene, but since all of the scenes of
Kirk and Spock inside Vejur were rewritten or cut from the theatrical
version, it was never commissioned.

ST:TMP:  Also in this longer video version, Kirk leaves the Enterprise in
one spacesuit but retrieves the unconscious Spock in a different one.

ST:TMP:  An external view of Kirk's travel pod in the space dock shows it
passing between a spotlight that is illuminating the secondary hull.  The
spot illuminates the travel pod as it passes through it, but the travel pod
doesn't cast a shadow on the Enterprise.

ST:TMP:  Last scene on the bridge shows Spock and McCoy wearing their
jackets.  A stripe on the sleeve color codes the departments:  Spock
wearing orange for science and McCoy green for medicine.  The final scene
shows that McCoy and Spock switched jackets, where they were wearing the
correct ones in the previous scene.

ST2:TWoK:  When Khan comforts his  fallen comrade  (the guy  with the blond
hair) you can see that guy closed his eyes even though he is "dead".

ST2:TWoK:  When Kirk, McCoy, and  Saavik beam  aboard Regula  1, Kirk orders
phasers on stun.  It appears that Kirk and Saavik each have their respective
phasers set  correctly,  as indicated  by a  single glowing  light.  McCoy,
though, seems to  have his  set to  kill, with  all the  lights blinking in
sequence, through the cycle.  I imagine this is the kill  setting, as Capt.
Terrell's phaser behaves similarly before  he kills  an unfortunate Genesis
project scientist and finally himself.

ST2:TWOK:  Saavik refers to the Gamma Hydra system, and a few minutes later
Klingon warships attack.  In"The Deadly Years" from TOS we are told that
the Gamma Hydra system borders on Romulan space.  Either (1) the Klingons
won it in a war or trade, (2) the system is where Klingon, Romulan, and
Federation space intersect, (3) The Romulans allow Klingons to patrol their
space, (4) the continuity people screwed up.

ST5:TFF: When Spock used his ski boots in the turbolift shaft, they went by
several decks multiple times, most notable - deck 52 (52 cards  in a deck).
Also, the highest numbered deck is more than the number of decks  the big e
has.

ST5:TFF:  Every time someone mentions marshmallows, they say "marshmellons".
In the movie, this does not make sense.  If you read the novel, it is
explained.

ST5:TFF:  Not sure if this is really a SNAFU, but where did Uhura find palm
leaves on Nimbus III, a desert planet?

ST6:TUC:  Sulu's coffee cup breaks, but is back on the table (unbroken) in
the next scene.  They may have fixed this for the video release.

ST6:TUC:  When the subspace wave starts shaking the Excelsior, Mr.  Valtane
(Science Officer) is next to Sulu's seat giving a  report.   When they show
the science station, he's sitting down at  station.   When they  go back to
the whole bridge shot, you can see him moving from Sulu's  seat to station.
Looks like a scene got put in out of sequence, eh?  :-)

ST6:TUC:  Uhura's name is spelled "Uhuru" in the closing credits.  But then
then NN's last name is often spelled incorrectly by Paramount and Creation.

ST6:TUC:  The cloaked bird of prey is defeated  by a  gas-seeking torpedo -
Lt Uhura having suggested the use of "the equipment we're carrying to chart
gaseous planetary  anomolies".   At the  beginning of  the film,  it is the
Excelsior which is carrying this equipment, not  the Enterprise.   In fact,
the Enterprise is in space dock when Kirk et.al.  first set off.   This was
explained by the producers as a mistake that wasn't caught  until the movie
was nearly released, and it was too late to  fix it,  so they  just left it
in, figuring  that  the  nit-pickers  could  rationalize  a  way around the
problem.

ST6:TUC:  When Kirk is recording the  log entry  that will  be used against
him in court, he says (re  Klingons):   "I can  never forgive  them for the
death of my boy."  Later, at the trial when  it is  played back  it says "I
have never been able to forgive them..."

ST6:TUC:  In TNG "Birthright II" Kahless overflowed some ocean with his
tears (according to Klingon legend).  But in ST6:TUC, Spock states that
Klingons have no tear ducts.

ST6:TUC:  Gorkon's daughter became the chancellor after he died in ST6:TUC.
In TNG "Redemption, Part I" Gowron said that women may not serve on the
council.  The y could explain this away by saying that Gorkon's daughter
made such a mess of things they banned them, or changed the laws for other
reasons.  Also, we know from TNG "Unification" that new Klingon governments
are fond of rewriting history, so maybe they decided to "selectively
forget" her reign.

ST6:TUC:  The time at the top of the viewscreen reads "01:18" (I don't
recall seconds) when the photon torpedoes were fired at Kronos I.  A short
bit later, the screen read 01:38.  It seems odd the sequence of the
assassination took 20 minutes.  Sure enough, an even shorter bit later, the
time read 01:29.  [I don't have a copy of ST6, so I can't verify
this--anyone got a tape?  --ed]

ST6:TUC:  Klingon blood color is inconsistent.  They fixed this in the
video release by adding footage that explains that this was a human
disguised as a klingon.

ST6:TUC:  When Kirk is rolling around in the snow with "himself", they are
rolling towards McCoy's feet (perpendicular to McCoy's body), the next shot
has them rolling over McCoy coming from his side (parallel to McCoy).

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3) TNG SNAFUs:

"Best of Both Worlds II":  As the Borg Ship is shown warping towards the
Saturn, the lighting on the planet is from the right, and the Borg ship
arrives on the screen from the right, which would indicate that the ship is
coming from the same direction as the sun...  kind of a round-about way to
get to the Earth, eh?

"Birthright I":  When Data first started painting, you could hear his
furious little brushstrokes against the canvas (whish whish whish!).  But
when he stopped painting and stepped back to view his work, you could
*still* hear the brushstrokes (whish whish whish)!

"Brothers":  Data's  password  doesn't  match  what  was  displayed  on the
screen.

"Captain's Holiday":  Picard is giving Vash the shovel with the handle
pointing towards Picard.  Switch to a far shot and the handle is now
pointing to Vash.

"Conspiracy":  Riker says "Mr.  LaForge, ahead warp six."   Geordi responds
with "Aye, sir, full impulse."

"Cost of Living":  When Lwaxana and Alexander are in the mudbath, Alexander
is holding an edible glass with a bite in it.  One shot shows the bite
pointing to the right and another shot shows it pointing to Alexander's
left.

"Darmok":  The very last shot (from outside the ship) shows Picard looking
out the windows of his ready room.  You can see a reflection in the window
of the stars moving.  However, they are moving straight toward the window.
The ready room on the port side of the ship.  The stars should have been
moving left to right (from our reflected view).

"Datalore":  The glass of champagne Lore pours for Data goes flat
immediately before Data picks it up thanks to the time that passed between
the times the two parts of the scene were filmed (it goes flat as the
traveling wipe crosses it).

"The Dauphin":  There is a scene where both of the aliens have changed into
monsters.  First the nanny changes to attack Wesley, then the girl changes.
There is a cut, and you see both monsters from a side view.  The
girl-monster stands in front of a mirror, but you don't see a mirror image.
The monsters change back to the human forms and you still cannot see the
mirror images.  At this time there is a cut again, but you see a similar
view of the room and now you can see the mirror image of the girl in the
mirror.  At the time they copied the monsters on the film, they didn't
recognize that there was a mirror in that room.

"Disaster":  After Geordi depressurizes the bay, you can still *hear* their
steps on the floor.  In the last scene, Picard is leaving the bridge
heading for his ready room, the door closes too early, and the sound comes
too late.

"Elementary, Dear Data":  Moriarty draws the Enterprise on a piece of
paper, and Data immediately proceeds to exit the holodeck holding the piece
of holodeck paper.  This is in the very episode where the writers
"established" that holodeck matter cannot exist outside of the holodeck.
Thus, one would think, the paper would lose its cohesion as soon as it
exited the holodeck.  (Of course, this rule has always been
broken/established whenever the writers have felt like it.)

"Elementary, Dear Data":  Geordi asks, "What's wrong Data?"  Data gives him
the page.  Geordi says, "Data this is impossible," and he flips the paper
over so that it faces the camera.  At this point we see the drawing
right-side-up, which means that Geordi was looking at it upside down.

"Emissary":  Data is playing poker at the start with the bridge  crew.  The
stakes are being raised as they go around the table.  Geordi folds, the doc
sees and  raises by  pushing a  stack of  coins onto  the pot.   Long shot:
small pot, no stacks.  Close up:  pot with 3 stacks  of coins.   Number One
sees and moves another stack into the pot.   Long  shot:   original pot, no
stacks of coins.  Worf wins with 3 aces.  Any gambler  keeps an  eye on the
pot; seems the director of TNG doesn't.

"The Enemy":  At the end of  the episode,  Picard tells  Tomalak that he'll
escort the warbird to the border of the Neutral Zone.   The Enterprise then
appears to head in the opposite direction the warbird is heading.   The Big
E may just have been turning to follow, however.

"Face of the Enemy":  Troi is surgically altered to look like a Romulan,
including the short hair style.  When Crusher alters her back, she has long
hair again.  So Crusher can accelerate hair growth, the Romulan captor hid
her hair, Troi wears a wig, or they messed up *another* scene!  :-)

"Family":  Jack Crusher is shown (not wearing a communicator pin), then
they show him again and a comm badge has magically appeared.

"Family":  Picard's young nephew is shown sitting out at night under a
tree, gazing up at the stars and, we presume, dreaming of following in his
uncle's footsteps.  Clearly visible on the horizon is the constellation
Orion.  Unfortunately, Orion is only visible in the northern latitudes
during the dead of winter, while the episode appears to take place during
the summer.  Either the 24th century climate engineers have eliminated
seasons (to increase crop production?)  or somebody goofed up.

"The First Duty":  About 10 minutes in -- Wes goes to  the door.   The long
shot has him opening the door with his *left hand*.   Cut to  close up, and
the door is being opened with his *right hand*.

"The First Duty":  About 40 minutes in.  Wes is talking to [someone] in his
quarters.  From behind, his hands are in one position, and when we cut to
the front, they're in another position, obviously different.

"A Fistful of Datas":  When Pa Hollinder talks face to face with his boy in
the jail, just as Pa turns away, part of his arm crosses the wipe and,
therefore, disappears.  This episode also holds the distinction of having
the most obvious mannequin stand-in of all Trek episodes. :-)  (Young
Hollinder in the jail, while Pa, Worf and Troi talk)

"Half a Life":  Near the end of the  episode, you  can see  the boom micro-
phone in the mirror behind Lwaxana twice.

"The Hunted":  At the end when the prisoners show up, Danar tells the
leader to shoot.  Danar shoots the wall behind him and it blasts a hole in
the wall.  Later scenes show the wall to be undamaged.

"I, Borg":  Beverly says, "We don't have designations; we have names..."
3'rd-of-5 (soon to be Hugh) then asks, "Do I have a name?"  and they later
claim that he never referred to himself as "I".

"Imaginary Friend":  Data says  something about  a lower  strand density to
the starboard side, and Picard tells him to move  towards it,  and the view
shifts to the exterior of the Enterprise turning *left*.

"Loud as a Whisper":  If  we go  on the  assumption that  the sign language
used by Riva was ASL, then  Data was  interpreting his  "speech" before the
words were being signed.

"Man of the People":  Picard referred to transporter room 3  *twice* at the
crucial time of beaming out the ambassador's aide?   He  told room  2 to be
ready.  Transporter room 2 was  referred to  throughout the  episode.  This
is a relatively trivial point, but a stupid production error none the less.

"Man of the People":  Amazing how dead hair folicles can  change color from
grey to brown when Troi de-ages, isn't it?

"Man of the People":  When Riker drags the aging Troi out of Ten-forward
(presumably, therefore, on deck 10) to the turbolift, the lift's door says
they're on Deck 8.

"Man of the People":  Geordi's normal two-solid/one-hollow LCDR pips have
been replaced by two *hollow* and one solid.

"The Measure of a Man":  In the first third we see the Enterprise _circle_
this *spinning* spacestation, but then, when Picard meets this woman the
first time, they stay at the window and you can see the _moving_ Enterprise
in front of *motionless* stars.

"The Naked Now":  When Troi finds Tasha in her quarters, affected by the
intoxication disease and trying on Troi's scarves, she and Tasha hold hands
as Tasha tries to grab a scarf from Troi.  The camera switches views
between Troi and Tasha as they face each other.  When facing Troi, Troi is
holding Tasha's right hand with her right hand.  When facing Tasha, she is
holding Tasha's right hand with her left hand.  Also, in one of the views,
they are holding a scarf, but not in the other.  The rights and lefts may
be off, but there is definitely a screw-up in the scene.

"The Next Phase":  When the Romulan is fighting with Ro, and LaForge shoves
him through the bulkhead, we see the Romulan exit the Enterprise facing us
right-side up, but when they show him drifting away into the icy cold of
space, he is facing *away* from us right-side up -- he's facing the wrong
way as he's rotating!

"The Next Phase":  Phased-Geordi's hand goes through a table, but the
phased-Romulan can sit on a chair (that rocks when he gets up)!  There are
also many complaints about people being able to go right through walls, yet
not falling through the floors, and being able to breathe air, etc.

"Night Terrors":  Check out the Brittain's visual log when the captain is
going mad, the name of the ship in the log is the USS Brattain, even though
the saucer decal reads USS Brittain.

"The Nth Degree":  In the holodeck scene where Troi attempts to talk
Barclay out of the neural net device he has concocted, the holodeck doors
don't close properly.  A section of light is visible for a minute or more
at about waist level.

"Q Who":  Worf shoots Borg #1, who falls to the ground, his left arm
sprawled over his head and his right leg bent in an awkward position.  The
camera switches to wide-angle, and in that instant the dead Borg changes
his position.

"Qpid":  Vash is writing this letter to Riker, then she folds it like this:

               ________________________
               |                      |
           --- |   Riker              | ---
           |   |                      |   |
           |   |----------------------|   |       Sideview:
           |   |                      |   |
           ->  |   help               |  <-
               |                      |                    Text within
               |                      |                          -----------\
               |                      |        -----------------------------/
               |                      |
               |                      |
               ------------------------

So that the text is covered completely with the first fold.  Then she places
the next fold over the first:

               ------------------------
               |                      |
          |->  |                      | <-|
          |    |                      |   |
          |    |----------------------|   |               /------------
          |    |                      |   |               |   ------------\
          |--  |                      | --|               \---------------/
               ------------------------

Then, when Q enters and finds the letter, he just opens the second fold,
but he is holding the letter *upside down*!  He starts reading even though
the words are not visible to him, because the first fold is still closed.
And he knows that the letter is for Riker.  Sure, Q knows everything, but
why did he have top open it at ALL then?  :-)

"Rascals":  When young-Picard talks to his "dad" (Riker), he  says he wants
to be able to play games on the computer in "schoolroom 8".   Riker manages
to free the computer.  When  Picard views  the screen,  if you  look in the
upper left hand corner, it says "classroom 7".   Maybe  each schoolroom has
multiple classrooms, or maybe Picard was using a  "fencepost-error" code so
the Ferengi  wouldn't  catch  on,  but  my  guess is  the continuity people
screwed up.

"Rascals":  When Riker dives to the floor (presumably to avoid the phaser
blast) and gives the order to shut the computer down (during which he could
have been shot several times), we *hear* the phaser, but don't see it.  FX
SNAFU.

"Realm of Fear":  After 4 seasons, lt O'Brien has suddenly  lost his normal
two pips, replaced by a single hollow pip.   Other  pip-problems include lt
Barclay's single/hollow pips swapping position, as well as having two solid
pips when  in Troi's  office.   They probably  felt that  Barclay needed to
outrank O'Brien to be able to influence him.

"Remember Me":  When everyone has disappeared and Bev comes off the
turbolift and down onto the bridge, the cameraman/equipment can be seen in
the reflective glass/mirror to the left of the lift.

"The Royale":  The surface temperature of the planet is  less than absolute
zero.  Also, after they beam the piece  of the  ship out  of orbit, O'Brien
and Riker pick it up with their  bare hands  (coming from  space, it should
have been close to zero Kelvin itself).

"Second Chances":  Near the end of the episode Cdr Riker is rescuing Lt
Riker on the edge of the cliff.  In one of the long shots, the stunt double
dressed as Lt Riker was wearing a DS9 gold and black uniform tunic, not a
TNG tunic.  When Lt Riker then gets his next close-up, he's back in a TNG
gold tunic.  Somebody in the costuming department wasn't careful that day.
If it was one of the early TNG uniforms, though, it could have been bunched
up around his shoulders (they tend to do that when your arms are raised),
so what the viewer sees is the black undershirt.

"Ship in a Bottle":  When Picard walks into the holodeck he is wearing his
open coat with the blue shirt, but he walks out wearing his one-piece red
shirt.  Either he changed his uniform inside the holo-deck and is wearing a
holo-shirt (in which case his uniform top should have disappeared when he
steps out of the holo-deck at the end of the episode) or they screwed up
again!  :-)

"Ship in a Bottle":  When they cut to a commercial break at the end of the
scene where Moriarty tells Picard he has taken over the ship, Picard begins
to say something as the screen fades.  It's close to the end of the first
half of the episode.

"Sins of the Father":  Worf's old nanny tells Picard that Worf's father was
loyal to the Emperor (and yes, it has been verified that he didn't say
"Empire").  In "Rightful Heir", we are told that the last Klingon emperor
was Kayless, 300 years ago.

"Sins of the Father":  The sound effects people must have fallen asleep
every time someone got slapped.

"Skin of  Evil":    after  Riker  is  sucked  into  the   tar  pit,  Geordi
accidentally drops his phaser half into the pit.   They  fade to commercial
and when they come back, his nice clean phaser is back on his belt.

"Suddenly Human":  When Jeramiah (sp?) sits down in 10 forward to have a
banana split, he is on Wesley's left.  Then when Wesley get hit by the ice
cream, it comes from Wesley's right.

"Suddenly Human":  Near the end when Picard brings Jeramiah (sp?) onto the
bridge, we don't hear the sound effect of the turbolift doors opening.

"Symbiosis":  Not really a SNAFU, but since this episode takes place AFTER
the death of Tash, we shouldn't really see her waving goodbye as Picard &
Bev are leaving the cargo bay heading for the lift at the end of the show.
:-)

"Timescape":  When Data, Troi and Picard returned to the Enterprise and set
time in motion again, Picard was on the bridge.  When time started forward
again, Picard told Riker (or was it Crusher?)  that he'd find Geordi on the
Romulan ship and to beam him directly to sickbay.  The Romulan ship is no
longer around.

"Timescape":  As Troi enters sickbay for the first time, she scoots past
two security officers in mid-stride just before they enter sickbay.  Later,
as she yanks Beverly out of the way and draw on the Romulan, no security
guards enter the room (even though they were scant feet from entering and
in the middle of a stride).

"Timescape":  The runabout crew had just suffered a port engine shutdown,
due to the effect of the time discontinuity bubbles.  Picard tells Data
that he is going to check the fuel consumption logs and proceeds to go to
another part of the craft.  We see a plate of aged fruit as Picard walks
in.  Notice his right hand as he enters.  His fingers are curled inward,
shielding his nails from our view.  When he sits down at the control panel,
he begins to touch the controls with the pads of his fingers.  His extra
long nails are already clearly visible, moments before he ever reached for
the fruit.

"Tin Man":  The Enterprise and the Romulan ship are thrown far away by Tin
Man.  Wesley said that thev've been thrown "3.8 billion kilometers away".
A couple seconds later, the sun goes nova, and they all saw it on the
viewscreen.  Unless the viewscreen is supposed to have some sort of sensor
mechanism that relays events faster than the speed of light would bring the
view in, they shouldn't have been able to view the star going nova for
three and a half hours (assuming the US definition of "billion"):

   3.8E9 km * 1000 m/km
[  --------------------  ] / 3600 s/min = 3.52 hours
         3E8 m/s

"Unification II":   You  can see  the reflection  of someone's  face in the
sculpture in an office.  The production people were aware of  it before the
episode finished.  The had planned to edit it out for the  final print, but
TPTB thought it would cost too much and that "no one would  notice".  Yeah.
Right.  In "Star Trek"...

"Up The Long Ladder":  When Riker and his team are overpowered in the clone
Prime Minister's office, Riker is rendered unconscious by a phaser set to
stun.  As he is being dragged off-scene, you see him look up at the camera
just as he thinks he is out of the shot.

"Violations":  Troi and Tarmin enter the turbolift on Deck 3.  Troi orders
it to go to Deck 8.  When she gets off, the doors close just in front of
the camera, clearly showing "Deck 3".

"Yesterday's Enterprise":  The last scene when Guinan sits down with Geordi
and asks him to tell her  about Tasha  Yar, La  Forge is  wearing a uniform
from the alternate timeline.  You can see the black cuffs on the sleeves.

Just as with  TOS, there  are numerous  episodes where  the costumes change
without the scene changing, as well as the number of pips (insignia) on the
shoulders changing ("Disaster", "Cost of Living", etc.)

The original sequence during the opening credits had the lighting wrong for
Saturn (in relation to the side the sun was on).  When told of the error,
they changed it, but it was still wrong.  They finally got rid of the
"solar system" opening and switched to a comet (but put in a ringed planet
just to say "UP YOURS" to all the people who had been complaining.  :-)

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4) DS9 SNAFUs:

"Battle Lines":  When the runabout gets shaken around, the front shot shows
Sisko sitting beside the religious leader.  The side shot shows her behind
him.

"Dramatis Personae":  When Sisko and O'Brien got to Airlock 4, they were
without their comm badges, which they had discarded earlier.  After Odo
told everyone to grab on to something and opened the airlock, Sisko had his
comm badge on.  Then in the next scene cut back to him, he was again
without his badge.

"Dramatis Personae":  When Odo opened the cargo bay airlock the air was
blowing into his face even though he was facing the airlock.  Seems like
everyone else had the air blowing at their face regardless of which way
they were facing.  Air should have been rushing *out*.

"Dramatis Personae":  The two other Bajorans mutinying with Kira.  First,
both are wearing grey uniforms.  In the next shot, one is still wearing
grey but the other is wearing a *tan* uniform like Odo's.

"Emissary":  When the station sustains a couple of hits from the
Cardassians, there's a scene of what look to be metal girders falling on
people on a walkway.  In the next scene, someone is hurtling through the
air lands on one of the girders -- and crushes it flat.

"The Forsaken":  Odo and Lwaxana are stuck in Turbolift 7.  Later in the
episode Sisko's station log says that they are stuck in Turbolift 4.

"The Forsaken":  Odo's cycle is 16 hours, though it was given earlier (in
"A Man Alone") as 18 hours.  Must be due  to the 26-hour days there.  ;-)

The comet tail in the opening sequence of DS9 is facing the wrong way given
the lighting on the station itself.

There's all kinds of problems with Odo morphing into things with near-zero
mass (like the wine glass that Quark's relative was carrying effortlessly)
as well as "what happens to his comm badge when he morphs"-type questions.

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5) MISC SNAFUs:

"TNG Tech Manual":  on page seven, the line drawing of the Enterprise is
the mirror image of what it should be.  Shuttlebay 3 (the wide bay) should
be on the right hand side and Shuttlebay 2 (the narrow bay).  The
descriptions, however, point to the correct relative positions.  This has
been confirmed with the onscreen image of the Enterprise and the other
drawings throughout the manual.  The drawing on page 20 is similarly
reversed.

"Mr.  Scott's Guide the the Starship Enterprise":  There is a picture of a
hallway UPSIDE DOWN.

"Mr.  Scott's Guide the the Starship Enterprise":  One of the photos of a
console from the 1701-A (as seen at the end of ST4:TVH) is a negative.

The photo on the cover of the DS9 "Emissary" novel, put out by Pocket
books, is REVERSED.  Notice the com-badges.  Odo's and Kira's are on their
left (on the show it is the right, at least for Odo, can't remember
Kira's), Dax and Dr.  Bashir have theirs no the right (should be the left.
You can't see Sisko's or O'Brien's badges.

The TNG Companion has at least one photo that is reversed.  The picture for
"Datalore" on page 46 is reversed (look at the comm badges).

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