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To Boldly Err

I just got back from a very busy weekend business trip, and I have a huge pile of things to attend to. So while I put off writing something deep and original for this blog, enjoy yourself watching these very amusing Star Trek mistakes. True fans know most of them already, of course.

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November 11th, 2008 2:00 PM by Phil Plait in Humor, SciFi | 11 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

11 Responses to “To Boldly Err”

  1. 1.   John Paradox Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Saw the first three.. have to watch the fourth.

    J/P=?

  2. 2.   IVAN3MAN Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    That’s what happens when you have different scriptwriters for each episode. It’s the same reason why you have inconsistencies in the Bible.

  3. 3.   Nancy A. Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Okay, all of a sudden 40 minutes of my life is gone. But it was really fun!

  4. 4.   jest Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    why is it when I try to watch them, it says the videos are no longer available?

  5. 5.   GregW Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Mildly off topic but, here’s the first pic of the new Enterprise from ST-XI http://tinyurl.com/6mn6h9

  6. 6.   PG Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Couldn’t see the vids, but my favorite is when Kirk says, “Increase the volume by a factor of one.” LOL :)

  7. 7.   kuhnigget Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    I couldn’t view the videos at first, either. But then I reversed the polarity of the video stream and everything worked just fine. Although for some reason, the person wearing the red shirt sitting next to me suddenly vaporized.

  8. 8.   Jack Hagerty Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

    kuhnigget Says: “I couldn’t view the videos at first, either. But then I reversed the polarity of the video stream and everything worked just fine. Although for some reason, the person wearing the red shirt sitting next to me suddenly vaporized.”

    I just had to send out a inverse tachyon pulse using the warp core plasma manifold. It always works out by the end of 50 minutes.

    - Jack

  9. 9.   Jesse Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    A LOT of these are from the movies. It seems when it comes time to make a movie, canon goes right out the window.

  10. 10.   Bill Roberts Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    GregW,

    I know a lot of people disagree, but I think the new E is Hawt! It finally looks like a plausible predecessor to the “refit” that we see in movies 1-6.

  11. 11.   Mikeb302000 Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am

    Sorry, but those are not Star Trek. There’s only one, and it had Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in it.

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