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When Captain Kirk and the shape shifter are
fighting on the planet (the shape shifter looks exactly
like Kirk). They are rolling through the snow about to
roll over Bones. In one shot, it looks like they will
roll over his feet first, and then the rest of his body.
In the next shot, it is a little closer and they roll
over Bones' right arm first and not his feet first. |
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When Spock places the viridium patch on
Kirk's shoulder, its orientation is horizontal. In the
very next scene when Kirk and McCoy beam to the Klingon
ship, the patch is vertical. |
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In the scene where Lt. Valeris vaporizes
a pot of mashed potatoes two things happen. Firstly,
only the pot is disintegrated, not the contents (odd)
and secondly, a female crew member can be seen walking
into Valeris' field of fire carrying a tray. Upon spying
the phaser, she wheels about in a 180 degree turn to get
out of the way. The camera angle is reversed and she
repeats her action of turning around to scoot out of the
way after the pot has been destroyed so there is no
reason for her to do so. |
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In the fight against the stealth attacking
bird of prey near the end the Enterprise gets a torpedo
shot through the saucer section leaving a big hole (it's
a clear shot through as you can see it blasting from one
side to the other) but later when you see the Enterprise
and Excelsior attacking the bird of prey the hole is
gone and instead you only see burn marks. At the end of
the movie the hole is there again. |
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When Kirk and McCoy are arrested on
Kronos One, McCoy offers his right hand to the Klingon
putting the handcuffs on him, and Kirk's hands are also
being cuffed in that shot. Then in Kirk's next shot, 10
seconds later, his hands are being put into the cuffs
again. |
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When Kirk is being tried for the
assassination of the Klingon Chancellor, his personal
log is used against him. Chang was able to get a hold of
that clip because Valeris heard him say it while he was
making his personal log in his quarters just after
leaving space dock. However, in the trial the sound byte
says "I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will.
I've never been able to forgive them for the death of my
boy." When Kirk was recording his log, his exact words
were "I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will. I
can never forgive them for the death of my boy." Oddly
enough, the version used in the trial is less condemning
as it simply states that he hasn't yet forgiven them,
while the version said in his quarters states that
forgiveness is impossible. |
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When Spock mind melds with Valeris, you
hear a heartbeat. Whose heartbeat is this? It is
specifically stated in the original series that Vulcan
hearts beat almost twice as fast as humans. It is,
however, never established that Vulcan metabolic
functions slow during a mind meld, due to conscious
physical control or otherwise. |
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At the beginning, the USS Excelsior detects
an approaching shockwave. One of the bridge officers is
standing next to Sulu, delivering a report. When the
camera angle changes, the same officer is seated at a
console behind two standing crewmen. When the camera
cuts again, he's between Sulu and that console, then
sits to operate it. |
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After Kronos One is fired upon, Kirk calls
down to engineering to ask if they had been firing
torpedoes. Scotty responds by looking at the inventory
screen and saying "Negative Captain. According to
inventory we're still fully loaded." That Scotty sure is
fast. He gets through saying "Negative Captain" before
his reflection even starts moving its mouth. It's a
little dark so turn up the brightness on your screen. |
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After Gorkon says, "Find Chang.", the
shadow of the camera can be seen on the left side of the
screen during a shot of some doors opening. |
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When Kirk and McCoy enter the underground
penal colony, Kirk is confronted by a large beast
speaking an alien language. Watch McCoy's mouth when he
says, "He's definitely on about something, Jim." His
mouth doesn't start moving until the camera shot changes
halfway through the sentence. |
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After the trial, Colonel West and others
discuss plans on how to rescue them. The president
rejects the plans, which are then left by the group in
the president's office. Then a little later the
president talks with Gorkon's daughter via view screen
and the plans are still there in full view in the
background. |
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In the original UK VHS version of the
movie, Scotty beams the Klingons aboard the Enterprise
using the controls in the booth (located behind a glass
screen). The shot cuts from the booth interior to the
Enterprise senior officers awaiting the arrival of the
Klingons on the transporter pad - Scotty is suddenly in
front of the glass and in the line-up. The shot cuts
back to the interior of the booth and Scotty is back in
there, operating the controls. |
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The assassin cuts a hole in the glass to
kill the Federation president. But with the size of the
hole and the placement of the scope on the phaser rifle,
the assassin would not have been able to see out of the
hole. |
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When the
Klingon ship is descending towards the whaling ship,
there is a shot of the whales immediately following a
quick shot of the harpoon. At the extreme right-hand
side of the underwater whale shot you can make out a
diver from waist up. Remember, the whale
animatronics were not that big, so the diver looks much
larger than the whales. |
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Every time we see a high ranking Starfleet Officer in the Starfleet Command scenes, they are wearing dozens of different badges and medals. Why doesn't Kirk and crew have any? In just the movies, Kirk and Co. have saved Earth twice and foiled an internal assassination attempt against the Federation President. As well as all the heroic and successful missions carried out in the original series. In the classic episode "Court-Martial" it lists Kirk as recieving the Starfleet Medal of Honor, the Silver Palm with Cluster, Starfleet Citation of Conspicuous Gallantry and Kragite Order of Heroism. And it isn't because of Kirk's actions in STII and III, the military can punish you, but they don't take away previous awards and medals. And while they may not be required to wear them all the time, if there is any occasion where they would be required to wear full dress and medals, it would be a court martial - all the Starfleet officers attending Kirk and the crew's court martial are wearing their decorations. |
