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Technically Goofs, there
are several points of this episode that are ignored in the movie
First Contact:
1) Glenn Corbett looks nothing like a young James Cromwell; 2) Cochrane
here has no knowledge of Vulcans even though in First Contact he
makes...well, first contact with them; and here Cochrane is from
Alpha Centauri but in the movie he is an Earth Native (there have
been various non-canon and fan explanations for why he would no
longer consider Earth his "home". |
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At the start of the episode,
Kirk states that they will meet the Enterprise in 4 hours, 21 minutes.
Assuming they've been in flight for a short while already, that
would probably mean about a 5 hour trip to meet the Enterprise.
Coupled with a 5 hour trip to pick up the comissioner, that would
be a 10 hour shuttle ride. That's an awfully long trip for a shuttle
to make. Considering the Miss. Hedford's sickly condition, it would
be a lot quicker to use the Enterprise to pick her up. You could
argue that maybe the Enterprise was busy doing something else, but
then why does Scotty spend all the episode looking for Kirk? Also,
in "The
Menagerie", Kirk indicates that the shuttle does not have more
than a few hours of oxygen in it, so it seems that a 5 hour shuttle
ride would be pushing it, and that's assuming that they were able
to refuel before they headed back. |
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Toward the end of the
episode, Capt. Kirk calls the ship with his communicator. Since
they are 57 minutes away from the ship at the time they make contact,
that would be an awfully long range for a personal communicator
to have. |
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The shuttlecraft that
Kirk and company are in is called the Galileo. However, the Galileo
was destroyed in the first season episode "The Galileo 7". Later
episodes correct for this by showing the shuttle as "Galileo II",
but they seemed to have forgotten it for this episode. |
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When Kirk and McCoy first
see Cochrane communicating with the companion, they comment about
how it looks like love. There is no obvious indication of love whatsoever.
All they are seeing is the companion hovering over Cochran, but
for some reason they just start rambling about it being love. |
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The Companion says it
will let the shuttlecraft operate normally so they can leave. Originally
it brought them down with an energy dampening field. However, later
it shorted out all the circuits when it attacked Spock - how did
it fix those? |
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Kirk, Spock, and McCoy agree to not
tell anyone in Starfleet of Cochrane's existance on the planet.
Then how do they intend to explain the disappearance of the Commissioner.
Also, since the Companion was essentially responsible for the Commissioner's
death and then stole her body aftewards, is it not guilty of a crime?
However, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy seem pretty content with letting
this all go. |
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First appearance of Zefram Cochrane,
the inventor of warp drive. He would later reappear in "Star
Trek: First Contact" as well as the pilot episode of "Star
Trek: Enterprise", "Broken
Bow", although he'd be played by James Cromwell in both
instances. |
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