(87)Mistakes! Star Trek: TOS (S3 Part 2)

In today's episode of Truth OR Myth we're taking a look the mistakes made in Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episodes 6-10... Hope you enjoy!

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[ericmadsen]

I heard no errors in this episode of Error, Error, Mistake. Great job.

[Scitch]

12:00 Maybe Checkov is just a really happy guy in general? 👁👄👁

[thoughtfortheday]

The blue eye shadow that Spock and Sulu wear, is that Starfleet Standard Issue? 😁

[fatenabu]

I love how Sulu just JUDO CHOPs that Klingon in Engineering. So interesting. Also Klingons are so much stronger and more hardy in everything but TNG. Is this because of the mutation that makes them ridgeless?

[bakomusha]

That wasn't cigarette smoke! It clearly was a ghost on set! :O

[VidIan]

Hi, great video! I love these error, error ones. :)

Regarding deck plating going in and out of phase, that’s definitely a common mistake. In “The Next Phase” (TNG) for example, LaForge and Ro are out of phase enough to walk through walls and be invisible but not out of phase enough to not be able to breath air, hear sounds (which requires movement of air) or walk on decks. Im mean, did their ‘phase’ share “only” air and deck plating with the phase everyone else was on? 😉

As for the Klingon devil, one could surmise that perhaps the Klingons’ species-wide religion changed over the 100-year span between TOS and TNG. After all, on Earth, Islam only took about 100 years to develop from a personal revelation by Muhammad to a region-wide religion. It literally was that quick. So perhaps the new Klingon ‘devil’ figure (Feq’lar) developed over time and became widely accepted. It’s like how Discovery-era Klingons put their dead in sarcophaguses but by TNG they considered dead bodies to be useless shells that could be disposed of.

Of course, this is only theory - none of what I said has been confirmed or even suggested on screen.

Thanks again.

[fightingfalcon]

The only answer I can think of for the whole saloon thing is that the gesture Kirk gave is well enough known universally as a sign of acquiescence that the villain recognized Kirk was standing down and was showing he was not holding a weapon

[trayolphia]

9:06 “logically”, one would assume that examples of spocks good hearing proclude the notion of other sounds as well, or in this case as shown on screen, that even vulcans can be distracted whilst focusing on something else…

[willk.]

So I guess when facing a Klingon warrior aim for his elbow lol.

[jaspr]

Do I have any explanations? Oh, yes I do. Each one sillier and more outlandish than the last and not one that makes any sense. It wouldn't be as much fun otherwise. Remember that when the Horta ambassador went to Earth for the first time, its God was seen being walked on by Starfleet as they had new shag carpeting put in.

[BTScriviner]

Isn't the Tholian Web the first time we learn about the Tholians? How could Spock have know about the "renowned Tholian punctuality"?

[Klingon]

Spock likes to remind people that Vulcan's never lie but he is only half Vulcan so maybe he only lies half the time?

[trayolphia]

9:45 bear in mind that if the floor plating were to phase out and thereby allow for people to “fall through the floor”…bear in mind that in turn would mean that segment of the gravity plating would also be phasing in that area so there’d be no artificial gravity to pull the person down

[BTScriviner]

I don't think asking for a replacement doctor goes against McCoy's wish to stay on active duty. The replacement CMO would be getting familiar with the ship and its routines and be ready to take the reins once McCoy goes to that great starship in the sky.

[frictionRx]

what I didn't get about Spectre of the Gun was Chekov got killed cuz he thought the gun and bullet were real but when the rest of the crew made a tranquilizer out of materials they thought were real it didn't knock Scotty out when they tested it

[godzillakaijuboy]

What is that song you keep playing in the background? Also, nice video

[BennyLlama]

After learning Kirk was a bit of a lothario, I thought *he'd* get the life-threatening disease, not McCoy. : )

[caspianmk]

It would be fun to see what you can uncover about the guy who did the voice overs for the TNG commercials. "Next time on Star Trek The Next Generation, the crew faces a new foe!" I can still hear it in my head today

[trayolphia]

I know I know…different franchise…but

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[ussvoyager]

Day of the Dove is most definitely 1 of my favourite TOS episodes & Kang is my favourite Klingon & his wife is really hot