10 Times Star Trek Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See
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From cardboard squares to film crew in shot, not everything we see onscreen was meant to be there.
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Apparently the device for stitching the carpet didn't work until Picard made it sew.
You win the internet for the day.
You must be auditioning to be a Disney Jungle Cruise captain …
Nice
Pun = downvote!
I am stun by your answer. Red shirts Unite .
A long time ago in a universe far far away I worked as a technician for a large TV broadcaster and content producer. One of my jobs was to check shows for these sorts of issue, and then decide whether or not it needed to be "fixed". The trouble is, once one has been trained to spot this sort of stuff it becomes quite difficult to learn to un-see things, which can make watching TV very frustrating.
Undoubtedly the most common problems are a sound boom in shot, and a shot which over-spills the edge of the set. Using a modern LCD TV both effects can frequently be found in TOS and TNG. However what most people don't realise is that most of these things would never have been seen, because back in the days CRT displays, the picture tube was overscanned by up to 6%. This means that a significant area of the image on the film or tape would never be seen by the audience because their TV sets were deliberately set-up to display a cropped picture.
Only technical anoraks like me, would have had the knowledge and/or technical skill to adjust the scan yoke to display edge to edge, and the penalty for doing so was that one then saw the messy instability and disturbances to the picture edge, which came from the primitive early TV sync pulses. That's why the overscan was chosen - so the average viewer wouldn't have to see any of the technical flaws. This also included an allowance for framing imperfections of the sort to which you allude.
TV production manuals from the area refer to a SAFE AREA - which is the area of frame which is guaranteed to be viewable. This is a 16:9 chart www.hdhead.com/illustrations/1080_safe_chart.jpg and here is a 4:3 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Pal_safe_area.svg/320px-Pal_safe_area.svg.png
Only the GREEN area would be considered "safe" and by extension important to the shot. So for example the newspaper, and many of the carpet tears - and indeed most of my sound booms would not have been considered important enough to fix, because the vast majority of viewers would simply never see them, as their sets would crop the picture so that the fault or object in shot was outside the safe area frame.
These days changing the picture is as easy as going into the display menu and changing the display from TV-overscanned to edge-to-edge mode, which anyone using the screen as a PC monitor will have had to do so as not to lose things like the start menu button into the over-scan area. So these intrusions into the picture, which were previously considered as invisible are now viewable.
Sadly this does destroy the "magic" - as did the move HD which, alongside showing things like your black squares on the bridge display, rendered the older styles of TV makeup instantly unconvincing - leading in turn to a lot of work being quietly done in the early 2000's to improve the quality of makeup and prosthetics.
This is why sometimes advances in technology like HD are best not applied retrospectively to old shows. Sometimes I think it is better to view the show, with all its fuzzy charm, in the original format, thus more easily maintaining the illusion.
How is this comment not pinned?
Excellent background info , thank you.
Someone please pin this comment! Have my like, ma'am!
Tangentially - you can't un-learn things. I sometimes wish I'd never learned what the Wilhelm Scream was. Now I hear it .... all the time. It sometimes breaks the magic for me, alas, but at first I felt delighted to have "secret" knowledge.
Now that's how you write a comment worth reading...should be 📌📌📌📌📌
I worked in TV for over 25 years as a Post Production Manager. Basically I do special effects and clean up mistakes AKA "Fix it in Post". I think it' important to note how TV production is quite different today versus the 70's to the 2010's. Today, seasons of a show are produced all at once (think Netflix style). In the past, it was quite different. Episodes were created in a monthly production cycle. You would start a show with a pilot and like 4 episodes to get the ball rolling (AKA a 4 month head start). Each month you were tasked to write, shoot, edit, post produce and add sound for an entire episode. Back in the day , some shows too no breaks and kept producing year round with different teams. When you are producing shows like that, it's easy to make mistakes and get too comfortable. You are basically living on set and see your families very rarely. The set starts feeling like home and you start treating it as such, and that's where problems occur. Most people are very professional, but when you are on set from sun up to sundown, and sometimes over night day after day to meet crazy deadlines, the lines between home and work blur.
The lines between home and work blur. Sounds like home office nowadays.
The only thing worse than a CZcams show documenting the irrelevant gaffs of a tv series LONG AGO faded away…is an unemployed technician commenting on it!
also tv series had 26 episodes for a season not 6,8,10 like there is now. just shows how powerful actors unions are and how cheap the studios have become
A REAL season is 26 eposodes; not the lazy-man's 10 episodes we see now.
As someone who watched Star Trek on a standard def tv over the airwaves, I can assure you these things were not visible/discernible on screen. People weren't that worried at the time because there was no way that the average viewer could see the gaffes.
Agree, i was looking at Uniforms at the time and it was almost impossible to tell they had zips up the back (for TNG new design). It was almost near impossible to work out shoe design as well. I understand that TNG was edited on the low quality format, so they filmed it, converted everything to tape then edited the program, so was likely no one spotted it after ether.
I didn't realize until tonight that there even *were* so many mistakes.
Watched and recorded these shows with a regular TV and regular VCR like we all did back then.
Have not seen the new hi-def and wide-screen versions yet but will have to try it sometime.
Giggling a bit at us "old folks" (yeah, right) having to tell the young ones that nobody really noticed most of these kinds of mistakes back then.
And *another* thing that was different back then is. We didn't spend half our time *trying* to notice mistakes anyway.
We were too busy just watching the show.
'Nuff said.
I agree - I was an avid fan of Star Trek and watched it on an old TV - a big deep thing and we had to put money in the back to pay for it - terrible image compared to today.
Word is toilets were just of the bridge and Picard walked onto the bridge many times to give commands as toilets were being flushed in those days the computer was not used so much and it was all new and barely anybody understood what was happening maybe the cardboard sets explained why one shot seemed to finish the ships off pretty easily. lol
Also home video did not exist when the original series was first aired therefore errors were harder to spot.
To be fair, #7 could be explained away as "hey, even on a Galaxy Class starship, sometimes the carpet gets torn and it takes a shift or two before someone from the Lower Decks gets there to repair it."
To be faaaiiirrrr(letterkenny joke)
@@wellsfam700 To be faaaiiiiirrrr...
The party pooper explanation would probably more like "it's in the overscan area, noone will ever see it" :)
Ensign Boimler, report to bridge!
Lower decks (the show) is brilliant, I especially love the references to the other series and the guest appearances!
🏍️ Agreed, but their 23rd C. carpet repair machine is probably pretty advanced. 🏙️
You can forgive a lot of these. Fun fact: TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager where all shot on film. TOS was also edited 'traditionally' (physically cutting film), while the other three series were transferred to videotape for editing.
But when shooting on film and using analog editing, it would be massively expensive to do a re-shoot for a minor background problem, and the technology didn't really exist to just 'paint out' a problem (or was too expensive).
It's actually pretty funny that I could fix those panel reflections, just crop out the carpet tear or clone out those blocking markers in a few minutes on my laptop today, when back then fixing those shots either wasn't possible, or would take too long or cost tens of thousands of dollars.
HD has really changed a lot of stuff in television. My uncle used to be a reporter and later an anchor for the local news. When the station started using HD cameras they had to replace the news desk because it was covered in graffiti that could not be seen in the SD camerals, but was clearly visible in HD.
I finally found someone who has more free time than I do.
It's an alien dog. Like Martia said, "Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place."
😂
That's goes with earthlings too nowadays apparently. 🤣
@@crisespinoza1979 Does thst mean you have relocated yours to your face? Seriously, just WTF did you mean?
@@donnalombardo4368 it means that today, with so many "genders/non genders" anyone can decide where their testes are. We are no longer man nor woman.
So, you still didn't answer the question. Human genetals are always in the same place, regardless of gender, as the develop from the same undifferentiated embryonic cells. To what place did you relocate your genitals? Are they on the bottoms of your feet? Your hatred is costing you brain cells, if you cannot answer a simple question.
Like all engineers, Chief O'Brien carries duct tape, not masking tape.
He would probably carry Gaffer's tape instead. Better than duct tape in every way.
Perhaps MacGyver was on DS9 with his duct tape.
@@ericstoverink6579 Especially for spiking sets.
And they HAVE pockets,in all the uniforms. Their openings are right at the seams so we don't see them.
Electrical tape is way better than duct tape; it holds better, lasts longer, is stretchy so it is easier to apply very tightly, leaves less mess when removed, and if fits in nicely into a pocket. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that he would carry electrical tape rather than duct tape.
Good thing the writing for TNG, DS9 and Voyager was so good that we were too into the plot to notice little things like these 😊
voyager was just ok
You should have seen the first 12 episodes of the original afternoon soap opera 'Dark Shadows'. Viewers could see cables and wires often, as well as hear the crew working in the background. Once, you could see above the set walls. The show was about to be canceled. Then, the producer's young child came up with the idea to make the show scary. Starting at episode 13, quality improved considerable, and the the show shot 1,225 episodes over six seasons.
The first full year of 'Dark Shadows' was a gaffe-a-day, some of which were outstanding. My favorite is a shot with one of the staff and an intern looking at the camera, inexplicably on there set. Hello! The show continued to have fairly regular oddities in the background throughout, and they freely acknowledge that was the case. Their schedule didn't allow for retakes.
In an episode of Santa Barbara a couple were diving along in an open topped sports car and the viewer was watching them pass stores, offices, etc. The effect worked right up until they passed a mirrored glass building and we saw a reflection of an open topped truck with the camera crew onboard!
I think there is probably a drinking game for this sort of thing in that series.
"With the hope that the viewer would never notice."
They were right, too. I never noticed. I get far too caught up in the story to worry about pesky background details.
Same here. I generally notice gaffs by the 2nd or 3rd viewing. They make the show that much more memerable to me.
Having been on a submarine and since there were non Starfleet personnel on the bridge I figured there was classified info on the screen when I noticed that.
Same
Wooptyassphukndoo.
Even tho I do tend to notice some things, this i never knew before.
I always thought the green ornament was showing some famous Romulan, like her dad or something.
I always thought he looked like my Dad from the 1980's!
@@tomasjoconnel5367 llpp
@@revan_247am6 llpp?
@@tomasjoconnel5367I don't know if my brother got on my pc or what, I never said that or wrote it that weird AF
@@revan_247am6 no worries. stuff happens. At least it wasnt a message from the other side!
Just imagine, William Shattner is 90 years old, and just went into space. Going strong! Thanks for the memories!
at his age he went into space years ago
I'm absolutely devastated to now discover that Star Trek wasn't a reality series...
He wasn't chewing gum, he was called in while having dinner and it is the tough meat cooked by Neelix that he is still trying to chew enough to swallow...
was the newspaper really left cause he was disgruntled or just being a slob?
@@raven4k998 Slob
@@jamesa.2880 I thought so
I remember a scene in TNG when Majel Barrett (who played Counselor Deanna Troi's mom in TNG) walks across a mirror that's behind her, and in the mirror you can clearly see the cable to her microphone running down her back.
Majel Barrett not just Deanna Troi's mom but Mrs. Roddenberry herself (hello).
yes i saw that too
@@laurab9867 Majel Barrett not just Deanna Troi's mom but Mrs. Roddenberry herself AND the computer voice of the ships.
@@Ucofatoffski Affirmative. 🤖
@@Ucofatoffski And Christine Chapel
Bless the editor. Those last few seconds of Discoveries' crew being SO puzzled was fantastic timing with Sean's commentary 😂
with all of the carpet gaffs in TNG, it re-frames the cheeky in-joke on Picard S3, "Being here, with all of us back together, it reminds me of the one thing I missed... The carpet"
I am still shocked, when in a list like this suddenly Discovery appears. It always takes a second for me to acknowledge: Ah yes! That is supposed to be Star Trek, too!
"Supposed to be ..."
@@markclason2717 Yep.. "supposed to be".
Discovery is a travesty IMO. Never watched it past S1E1... never will
@@davidanderson4091 you're los I guess...
What an original comment...
That warm and fuzzy feeling you get when watching Star Trek clips is replaced by revulsion when a Discovery scene appears. The sooner Discovery fades into oblivion, the better.
The ONE time he didn't recycle the Federation Daily newsheet and THIS gets a complaint!
It's almost like these were filmed decades ago and it never occurred to anyone that someday people would go through every single scene, frame by frame to find minor things that absolutely do not matter.
It's not far fetched to think Gum made a come back after O'Brain made some. Obviously he showed it to the Voyager crew before they left and the guy happened to make some of his own too.
Also there is one episode of DS9 (i think it's DS9) where a boom mic is seen in the shot. I don;t remember which episode but it does take place with a scene of Jadzia in her science lab.
I remember that scene when they looked in a lab, for a vanished city. I think the episode name was Prophet (as it tied into the whole Sisco ... well, let's not make spoilers).
But Voyager was already in the delta quadrant during the events of 'Take Me Out to the Holosuite.' So Star Fleet must have sent the specs for chewing gum to Voyager in one of their data dumps
@@rosemarymcbride3419 Maybe he made some before. Like that one alien collector who preserved the smell of bubblegum on a baseball card.
The real mistake was the entire Discovery series
The Tear in the carpet behind LaForge may not have been seen on A normal TV due to overscan and TV's never saw the complete picture so when it was shot it may have been spotted but thought it would never be noticed
This should have been mentioned in the video. The early examples in the video would not have been visible on an anolog broadcast and crt tv.
I remember the closing scene of Star Trek Nemesis. Captain Picard was sitting at his desk either in his quarters or in his ready room. You could clearly see a power cord coming from his monitor. Later in the same scene it showed his desk again and the power cord had disappeared. In the 24th century the monitors didn't have power cords because they used self contained power cells.
Black panels over reflective surfaces, great idea it worked well
Clearly Michael Burnham was using a little-known fighting technique she learned on Vulcan that even Spock was unfamiliar with; the Vulcan Air Burst.
She is clearly using the Weirding Way - Its clear that she studied with the Bene Gesserit
It's obviously a Force punch. Oh, wait...
Perhaps she'd been eating garlic?
@@plan7a Super effective if she was fighting a vampire. ;-)
@@bradfordhatch5085 well, the people from the mirror universe can't stand bright light... coincidence??? ;-)
You missed a big one. "Angel One" from TNG, Season 1, Episode 13, at about 21 minutes. In the original (not the remaster), Riker is having an intimate moment alone with Beata. However, you can very clearly see a hand reach in and take the champagne glasses from Beata, a much bigger mistake than carpet scuffs.
Thank you! I was not the only one seeing that.
Yeah, I guess they caught it in the remaster...cant catch it now
Yea and when I first saw it, I LAUGHED SO HARD
“Angel One” is one of my favorite STTNG episodes. Karen Montgomery was beautiful 😍
Omgee! Really? Lol
The equipment in the corner of the shot in your second example wouldn't have been seen on TVs in 1966 since they had rounded screens and overscan. We can see much more of the frame than viewers did back then, and all the corners are clearly visible. The production crew may have noticed it, but left it in knowing that it wouldn't be seen at the time.
The tear in the carpet in TNG is a similar issue that wouldn't have been seen by viewers at home due to overscan.
In "Good Shepherd" Star Trek Voyager, on a computer monitor in the escape pod, a mouse cursor is moving across the screen.
No wonder Lorca failed, his guards will go down with little gust wind
Asuming he does not shoot them himself, because they are blocking his shot :)
Either that, or Burnham has the Force
Snow flakes!
@@DMSProduktions Yeah, DISCO haters often are. It is a wierd thing with them.
@@christopherg2347 I meant Lorca's guards!
But yeah, the anti Disco brigade are a joke!
Generally, check out the extras in ten forward scenes. Watch them closely. Sometimes they are hilariously „acting normal“.
That so-called Bridge was nothing more than a relaxing cinema screen to stare at.
With the newspaper, maybe a crew member just left it there after waiting for his tricorder to recharge then left the paper there for the next guy.
Gary Mitchell, that’s it. I’m getting a boulder 😜
Quick point, La Forge's station in that episode *is* Data's Station, so it's probably the same carpet wedge leveling the chair (the point just before the sponsored segment).
There are quite a few carpet oddities on the bridge and in sickbay in various episodes. Ex Astris Scientia points them out in the Observation pages.
No - La Forge is at ops, Data mans the conn. Data left, La Forge right.
After La Forge is advanced, Data takes his place.
You can see a ladder outside the mess hall, in the Voyager episode "Equinox". It's right outside the mess hall door (as the door opens a crewmember walks out) when B'lanna introduces Tom and Harry to Burke.
I think you missed Data's white sneakers on the episode with Dr Mecoy in a floating wheelchair in the hallway. It was a rehearsal shot, but was kept into the dvd.
* McCoy
Michael used the force to take down that guard, obviously.
In the Star Trek Universe, they call it The Farce.
LMAO
@@Cogency1 I prefer the Scwartz from the Spaceballs Universe.
It was a little-known Vulcan technique. ;-)
How could you miss Denise Crosby waving at her friend behind the camera just before she leaves the show.
In the episode before she died coz it was filmed after her death scene, if I remember rightly! It was her final scene & she was like "see ya" 😆
but that was intentionally left in
That one was intentional, with the director's permission.
In tng Picard says to barkly “ok mr broccoli” I was laughing
The EP where the astrophysicist that Picard gets interested in has a boom mic in the shot above his head when he is in his quarters. At least I think that's the episode where you see it. He's playing his flute, chilling out, and there is the boom. Lol!
There's also another episode with a boom mic gaff on the bridge. Can't remember the episode.
Crew man chewing gum. My personal winner. #1. 👍😁
Scotch flavored?
Excalibur John Boorman. Reportedly can see them men in armor smoking cigs during a battle scene sequence. :)
they can build space ships. but not chew gum.
Damn Maquis flouting Starfleet regs again.
@@billiesastard2596 Aye!
It is crazy that nobody to this day talks about the sludge that killed Tasha Yar, and that when the camera focus on the sludge from the top, you can clearly see the reflection of the overhead lights.
There are a some episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” where a boom mic is clearly visible. Unfortunately, I don't remember the episode names. One involves Troi talking to her mother, another appears with Picard on the bridge, and a third appears in Main Engineering.
7:08 like you've never covered up the check engine light rather than replace the dodgy EGR valve.
It being a starship, they have really big, redundant check engine lights.
Naw - it’s a cover to a panel hole; ready for a starship module upgrade! (~8
Kelvin-Trek went the opposite way. Never black out any reflecting surface when you can instead make it a glowy self-illuminated thing. More lights, more reflections, more flares and glares, make the bridge a painfully bright white blinding place.
Dodgy EGR valves have been a HD diesel mechanics cause of many a sleepless night
@@pwnmeisterage MOAR LENS FLARE!!!!1!1!11!1!!!!11
forgot how nearly vertical Spock's eyebrows were back then...
Gravity and old age affects all beings 🖖👽🤔in different ways🤭. My eye lids started drooping at 50 LOL, but that just makes the continuity teams very good at their jobs. 😊
Bolian hairdresser shaved Spock's eyebrows. Latest Vulcan fashion.
Yes. I remember. Glad they softened the eyebrow angle
I noticed it also.
True. LOL
I don’t know if you caught this, but I noticed in Journey to Babel what seems to be smoke rising from behind McCoy’s surgery bed when McCoy leans over it with Sarek being operated upon. It looks clearly as if DeForest Kelley had a cigarette during the shot.
I was a foster child in my first foster home. They had a cat named Mr. Cat. What was interesting about Mr. Cat was that Mr. Cat was a female cat, not male cat. I do not know why they called the female cat Mr. Cat.
Not a mistake but in “First Contact” the escape pod doors were plastic toboggans. I had one in my garage.
You missed the scene in Amok Time when you clearly see Leonard Nimoy leaning against the sweet in the background when Kirk is talking to T-Pau and Spock is supposed to be in deep meditation.
That is the newspaper that Kirk reads when he’s sitting on the throne producing the captains log
“10 times Star Trek accidentally filmed things you weren’t meant to see”
And at #1 Star Trek discovery: the whole series
Damn you literally first thing that came to mind. Fuck me Discovery just needs to die already and bring back real trek, those Klingoff's were something else
i have been a lover of all things Trek until Discovery was added... i just could not find a way to enjoy story lines and characters in the entire series... i guess all the crew, actors, etc are happy MY opinion alone was not consequential to the life of this show haha... Shout out to Lower Decks though... what a fantastically brilliant piece of work :)
In Star Trek 3 the search for Spock, after Kirk set the self destruct on the enterprise, when the Klingons boarded the bridge, the enterprise exploded and a stunt man that was dressed as a Klingon was thrown over the helm a hand came in frame to help the stunt man
There was also the sound stage that is visible in The Motion picture when Kirk goes walkabout outside. The sound stage is also visible in The Voyage Home after the BOP crashes into the water and Kirk has them pop the hatch.
Just to point out that the station Data was sitting when we saw his carpet faux pas was the same station Giordi was sitting at when you saw that carpet faux pas.(NAV station)
That's a good point. Maybe the carpet was to cover the gaping holes and not to level the chair.
Oh, glad I'm not the only one then, LOL.
Fortunately, I NEVER watch movies / series to look for mistakes in them. I watch them for fun. I recommend it to others
I'm impressed and amazed at how you caught those very subtle mishaps. Did you watch the full episodes frame by frame? I've never had an eye for such things and I've been watching Star Trek for 30 years.
You don’t look for them you concentrate on who is talking and most noticed but couldn’t prove it unless they were recording it and could rewind no tivo
The newspaper scene was great. You can't tell me that Leonard Nimoy did not see that while he was filming it. Where he was positioned, he was practically looking right at it. Great video Sean
Nimoy is probably the one who put it there lol.
@@joecostantino3684 Hey u never know. Actors have pulled pranks before
It’s an ART PIECE
Hey, don't they read newspapers in the 23rd century?
YES
#7: WE can see the tear because we have digital video in perfectly rectangular screens. When it was originally aired, overscan would have made that invisible, and the editors would have left as is even if they saw it.
I didn't see half of these even in slow motion.
The Sheliak treaty from "The Ensigns of Command" is my favorite example of this. Between the low SDTV resolution and the inability to freeze frame, it's unlikely you'd be able to read it on original airing but it's clear as day on the remaster. You'd think it'd just be standard "lorem ipsum" filler but it's actually jokes and anime references.
I guess you really have to look at these frame by frame to find them….I mean, I’m just enjoying the story so no time to be looking for these!
When you rewatch something so much, it becomes a fun game looking at everything else.
You’ll call-out the pulled punch, but not her obviously pointing the phaser at herself mere seconds later? 🤨
Hahahahahah
was thinking exactly the same... also, i would instantly accept that the touchless punch was totally deliberately to show how awesome MB is... she is like this one martial arts master in the east that can overwhelm opponents without touching them. its a "real thing", you can google it ;) if he can do it, then she definetly can! so yeah, they should replace the airbending with "holding your weapon towards yourself" :D
@@alexejfrohlich5869 Vulcan Buddha Fist...
But that's Discovery in a nut-shell, pointing a phaser at itself.
I mean, that’s kind obvious.
I love the clips that mimic the cast’s reactions - very clever! 🤣
I made it halfway through when I realized I had to leave to go do real-world stuff. I wish I had time to find torn carpets in old TV shows. 149k subscribers! Nice way to make a living.
I saw a scene in TNG where a door panel, despite being painted beige, had visible wood grain showing through the paint
Not something you'd like have seen back in the day when originally broadcast. HD is murder on sets. I remember setting the Johnny Carson set up close once, it was a wreck but the cameras didn't see that.
Rather like episodes when some baddies hurls our intrepid hero through the room wall or door, which appears to be made from balsa wood. Not up to Starfleet specs!
@@jasonk9779 "HD is murder on sets" Not when you compensate for it. This is only noticable for production techniques made long before. Besides, we are up to 8k now bud. Going back to the old resolution is very difficult because it looks like such shit now.
Great list! Had a few things on here I did not know about, which is always nice. But there are a LOT more things were not on this list that could have been. "10 Times Star Trek Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See: Part 2" coming soon? Yes please!
12:39 It is confirmed, there are Jedis among us.
I always like someone who can see the cloud in a silver lining.
You missed the bit later in the Discovery scene, when Burham trains her phaser at Lorca, she's clearly holding it backwards.
I'm watching the original series for the first time all the way through, and something keeps happening, haha! When ever there's an outdoor scene with the sun behind the camera, a guy will walk away past and the camera shadow will hit him in the chest. Like kids making a movie with their dad's camera. Haha!
Ponce
Original Star Trek had a low budget. Ha, Ha.
It wasn’t filmed using an 8mm handycam??! ((~8
Amazing what you suddenly see in HD that was naturally hidden in broadcast quality video that really was not better than 360p
Whats impressive in the last one is that in the same Fight Burnham ends up threatening a Character with a Phaser, that shes effectivley pointing at herself.
You didn't mention Captain Picard opening his mouth VERY wide as he enters the turbolift at about 2m in the episode "Too Short A Season". I'm sure we weren't meant to see that!
Thank you so much I thought I was going nuts. And thanks for the episode.
Yeah, that one's just plain weird.
Thanks for that, I had trouble finding what episode that was in.
There's no way the torn carpet behind LaForge would show on a CRT tube. That area would have been covered by the TV case. It is clearly outside the title safe line, and likely didn't show on the editing screens either. When they did the transfers for bluray they pulled the shots back as far as they could to gain the extra width needed for modern aspect ratio sets, and in the process probably got the rip in frame even though it was well outside the safe zone in the 80s
My thought too, it was within overscan area.
Scotch-infused gum....WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN MADE YET!?!?
Love the fact that I pay for CZcams premium. To remove ads. Only to have to listen about square space.
Thanks.
In "Half A Life," when Deanna and her mother are talking, a mic boom is seen, briefly, reflected in a mirror.
I saw that too
I wish they'd stop fixing these things in new releases. They're just little treasures we like to find.
Yeah, they didn't fix the Stormtrooper bumping his head in Star Wars Special Edition, in fact they added a sound effect!
Include both versions - the original and the remastered? Then if something gets 'tinkered with' you can still see how it was when you first watched it. It might save a few arguments also - from those who have seen differing versions!
@@plan7a I think the only time these "fixes" were an improvement was Star Wars, when the Stormtrooper bangs his head they added a sound effect but left it in.
People now don't realize that :
1) The video taps on the 35mm cameras were like 3 inch, black and white screens.
2) By the time you see printed dailies, it's too late to fix it.
3) TV's were too low resolution for people to care.
That said, i'm sure the list is in good fun.
If a 5 minute video needs 13½ minutes, there's a good chance the narrator's from the British Isles.
You forgot the episode Imaginary Friend. In the scene where the villain, Isabella, is using her telekinesis to knock down some plates, a hand can be seen knocking them.
I see it! What a dick...
High tech is actually low tech!
forgot the episode, but it's a VOY one: standard windows mouse cursor on an LCARS screen. 🤭
I believe that was in “Good Shepherd.”
yeeeees I was waiting for that one! I saw that the first time I saw that particular episode and I was so proud to have spotted that 😌 And then you forget it in this episode 😂😂
On voy? You saying it to save time? 😉🤣
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@@aqdrobert Nah, Windows 10 is the last Windows
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I don't think the "Tear" in the carpet is a tear at all.. I think it's an "X" with tape to mark Picards spot in the upcoming shots.
Yeah that's what it looks like, it's called a "Spike". It marks where a actor or something's goes on the stage. Riker stands on that spot many times.
What about the fact that Spot, data's cat, is constantly referred to as male, bit has kittens in the episode "Genesis," where it becomes a critical plot point.
The worst one was in the last episode of season 4 of DS9 ("Broken Link") where the crew takes Odo back to the founder's homework, and Garak, who wants revenge, tries to manually fire torpedoes, but fights with worf in the crawl spaces. During their scuffle, they bump a wall and the door falls off, revealing the set behind it.
To address the point about Spot, this is a video about things getting into shot that shouldn't have done. It is not a video about plot inconsistencies.
For Nika the Dog, you can make the argument that since the dog is from an alien species, that the females have that specific body part
There is a ton missed. I think a second list will be coming
ya there has to be, I totally agree
There was an incident I remember from TOS, "The Apple" or "Paradise Lost" - during a fight with the natives, one of them looses their white wig as they are knocked down.
Burnham's just so awesome the mere shockwave from her punch is enough
While I'm certain you've brought this one up in a video before, Denise Crosby waving goodbye to the camera (from the background) in her final filmed scene as a regular could also make this list. TNG S1E22 "Symbiosis", 42:13. Blink and you'll miss it.
Wish she had stayed. Found her enchanting.
@@Vespyr_ No worries. We all did, vespyr. She was a treasure on the show.
@@Vespyr_ She thought that Trek was holding her back from a successful acting career, lol. Her leaving TNG was the best thing that ever happened to Michael Dorn.
i literally just went to that time in the episode and watched fie times. literally blink and you'll miss it.
@@HawkGTboy Was it not the *only* thing that happened to Michael Dorn? ;)
I remember first seeing the black cardboard in Peak Performance.. maybe it was used to keep tactical information secure while using the view screen ?
4:15 the scene moves so fast at 'regular speed' that I couldn't see the tear in the carpet until you slowed it down.
In addition to the "phantom punch" in #1, you can see a for a few frames towards the end of the fight that Burnham is holding her phaser backwards. Then the camera cuts and she's got it facing the right way.
Most infamous is Star Trek V turbolift Deck mistakes.
The dog in Voyage is supposed to be an alien dog. Why should we assume it's bits matter?
That's a bigger cop out than the progenitors being responsible for nearly every alien looking like humans in make up. lol
Pretty sure the newspaper was thought to be far enough around the corner not to be in the shot, but when they changed camera angles, it was just not spotted due to aspect ratio or whatever. I would bet that it was there because just around that corner was a freshly-painted set, or possibly a floor in progress, and there was newspaper down to keep crew from walking over it.
It's nice to know that the servant problem will always be with us.
Chewing gum when on stage is like the MOST well known taboo in theater next to maybe wishing someone good luck. I can't fathom how that went unnoticed. We used to have to spit gum out in our hands and hold it through our scene if we got caught.
Hey - at least he didn’t blow a bubble!!