(11)Mistakes! Star Trek: TOS (S1 Part 6)

In today's episode we take a look at the mistakes made in the last 5 episodes of season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series... Hope you enjoy!

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[DrTIPUSUK]

I have to say The quality on discovery shows how far we have come

[jarradscarborough]

the doors aren't automatic, there's a slave strapped to the roof who opens and closes the doors until he starves to death. he's out of shot though...

[dan]

3:14 Even disguised as Organians, Kirk is wearing gold and Spock is in blue.

[tombrickhouse-growthmatrix]

At one point the time portal guardian states that it was created to function a certain way and at another point stats that it was not created. That being said, this exercise shows how a good story, even if it is told with flaws, is still a good story and so we tend to overlook the flaws. "City on the Edge of Forever" & "The Devil in the Dark" are still 2 of my favorite episodes, flaws and all.

[FIREBRAND]

That last observation for Errand of Mercy was perfect! Also Errand of Mercy will be forgotten in the Next Generation episode "Heart of Glory" where we learn that except on Organia Klingons don't take hostages.

[rylansato]

Always felt Q was mocking Worf instead of stating an actual code.

[cSkylaneRG]

2:59, Kor says "Public" assembly. The council must meet privately (I never see an audience, or anywhere for any potential audience to sit).

[jeffs]

I believe the reason for their rush to test the light is because the colonists only have so long before the pain the creatures give kills them, McCoy says something to this affect and Kirks Sister-in-law dies due to this.

[tempest]

How bout the security officer in the episode with the Horta is also Commodore Wesley? Maybe his less successful brother or cousin?

[stanleyjedrzejczyk]

One thing which has bothered me about TOS's : 'City On The Edge Of Forever' since I first saw it at age 6 in '75. What the hell made Spock's tricorder malfunction to the point of him 'attempting to construct a mnemonic circuit out of stone knives and bearskins'? I explained it to myself that the Guardian's time-portal trip somehow damaged it's Transtator-based circuitry. But later, as the old bum finds out, it sure didn't deactivate Mc'Coy's Type One hand phaser! At least not the overload setting. Which, come to think of it, behaved rather strangely when it simply vaporized the bum instead of detonating in a 'forced-chamber explosion', as Capt. Pike explained the setting!

[chrisbritt]

Of course something to always remember about the original series was the tight budget the fact that the suits up top didn't really believe in the idea of a science fiction show and the fact that the writers often times did not communicate or concern themselves with what previous Riders had done there was no one trying to keep anything straight at all it was just do what you like so there are always going to be a lot of problems when you have a tight budget you do a lot of quick reshoots and you have Riders would just suddenly in and out real fast that's why you have so many little flaws in Star Trek and it's safe to say that the original premise may have included the kind of communications with other galaxies you're talking about but that was changed much later on to make it a little bit seemingly more realistic as it were

[johnwhite]

In City On The Edge Of Forever there are 3 more mistakes not mentioned here or in the Nitpickers Guide. Edith Keeler mentions Clark Gable a couple of times. In 1930, when this story takes place, Clark Gable is not a star. He only appeared in one picture in 1930 and wasn't credited. His last credited picture had been in 1925. He became a star in 1934 when he made It Happened One Night. Also in this episode just after the guy who stole McCoy's phaser incinerates himself the next shot is of dome buildings. The one on the right of the screen has a nuclear trident indicating a fallout shelter neither of which existed in 1930. Finally, when McCoy injects himself with the cordrazine he falls to the floor. If you freeze your screen the hypo is clearly visible at his side but in the next shot he's holding it as if it never became dislodged from his stomach. Also In Devil In The Dark Scmitter says, "you saw what happened to Ed Appel when he took a shot at it". Nothing happened to Ed Appel. We see him later in the episode and he is perfectly fine.

[pex_the_unalivedrunk]

Also, how did Spock....not realize his own biology before getting blinded!? He acted as though it was news to him that he had a 2nd eyelid!! He's not a doctor, but he IS a scientist, and he IS half Vulcan...it always seemed funny to me. Also funny that they didn't try a UV filter in the first place...just in case.

[marshallhuffer]

2:18 - Spock confuses the Richter scale for the Kardashev scale. The Richter scale measures how strong earthquakes are while the Kardashev scale measures a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy they're able to use. Also, the Kardashev scale wouldn't use letter grades like D-minus, instead uses levels ranging from Type 0, which humans are currently at, to the abstract Type 6, which exists outside time and space as is capable of easily creating and destroying universes and multiverses.

[dan]

13:14 Sulu traded places with his mirror self? :)

[panowa]

I would think that any travel back in time would not only alter history but cause a paradox of some sort. When the bum took McCoy's phaser and accidentally vaporized himself, could he have possibly altered history any further. Suppose if the bum was not supposed have died right there and lived another 20 years or so?

[Djarra]

The reason you don't see McCoy take Kyle's belt is that the NBC censor thought it would be 'provocative' this is detailed in the book 'The Making for Star Trek'. Other things the censor didn't like was MR Spock and not DR McCoy hypnotising someone, the workaround was the invention of the Mind Meld and Kirk being whipped this time Spock was whipped as green blood isn't offensive.

[dianezimmerman]

Give Shatner a break in "Devil in the Dark". His father died during filming and he finished out the workday before leaving.