Again, if a show wants to invent some new laws of physics that's fine with me. My opinion will be based on the degree to which they adhere to their own rules. Shows like Star Trek, in all its variations, were horrible about doing so while at the same time conning a huge fraction of their fans into believing that they did a wonderful job at it. By the same token, if a show just wants to through out technobabble with no attempt to claim it is anything other than that, I can at least respect them for that, even if my opinion of the underlying quality of the plot is commensurate with the technobabble approach.

The biggest mistake in the Star-Trek series has wearing a 'Redshirt'.

 

And also the only person that was third in command of a starship but only an ensign (at least in one episode).

 

And also the only person that was third in command of a starship but only an ensign (at least in one episode).

That would have been a blooper. I remember him as a Lieutenant Commander during the original series. No ensign would ever be Chief Engineer on a capital ship.

 

That would have been a blooper. I remember him as a Lieutenant Commander during the original series. No ensign would ever be Chief Engineer on a capital ship.

I count bloopers as mistakes.

 

I count bloopers as mistakes.

It's a wardrobe mistake as his character was senior enough to be third in command and only a senior officer and a major bad-a$$ could wear this on duty without being laughed at.

 

I have watched way way way too much ST:TNG, VOY and DS9, from my HDD. And I never really noticed mistakes before that I remember. Then I noticed those 2 in TNG in under 24hrs.

 

 

The entire episode was a mistake.

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Spoiler

 

Even Oscar-winning, big budget movies make mistakes

There is a website full of them: https://www.moviemistakes.com

 

About 40 years ago, there was a TV movie based on a late 1850s wild west theme.

One of the scenes featured some kind of horseback action purportedly happening in the middle of the night, but it looked like it was filmed during bright sunlight at high noon. To make matters worse, the film also showed a high voltage power line (with one of those huge steel towers) in the background while cowboys were galloping around in the sagebrush, Not a well though out scene for a movie based on the countryside before the Edison Era.

 

I hate when the physics of motion and forces are off, like in action scenes with bad CGI or bad model work, etc.

Also though when physics is just ignorned like in the latest star wars disney farce, when they find the Death Star 2 throne room in fine condition, like an earthquake happened, rathar than it SMASHING INTO THE MOON ENDOR, and it being the size of a small moon itself. Sure it's sci-fi, but I'm forgetting, that thing was blown to smitherin's 1st , and the debris perhaps formered rings, etc, and some impacted Endor. But it's JarJar Abram's, nothing has to make sense.

I don't like new Star Trek movies or TV, and I have a hard time liking much of new SW, except Rey's hot