- Continuity: Worf bends over twice when he uncovers Soran.
- Continuity: Worf's sash when he is blown over the console.
- Revealing mistakes: As Worf climbs up the side of the 19th century ship, you can see that his pants legs are red in front. (The paint on the ship wasn't dry when they filmed it.)
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Kirk circles his horse around Picard, his dialogue concerning the empty captain's chair sounds as if it was dubbed in afterwards.
- Continuity: On the Enterprise-B, Ensign Sulu says that the starboard ship is collapsing. What we see on the screen is the ship exploding on our left, the port side of the ship.
- Revealing mistakes: During Worf's promotion party on the sailing ship, a harbor buoy is clearly seen in the background 20 feet from the ship.
- Revealing mistakes: Before Kirk jumps the gap on his horse while in the Nexus, there is a shot from beneath the gap, looking up, and there appears to be a dark colored board or bridge across the gap. When we see Kirk jump the gap, the board is no longer present.
- Revealing mistakes: Roads are visible in the background during the climatic fight sequence on Veridia III, even though the planet is uninhabited.
- Crew or equipment visible: On the Enterprise-B bridge, when the ship is hit and crewmen go flying, you can see one man go over the bridge railing backward... twice, from different angles. When he lands the second time, the edge of a blue pad to cushion his fall pops up into the bottom of the shot.
- Continuity: During the crash sequence on the Enterprise-D, Worf is flying all over the place in the background. Immediately following the star drive's destruction, the shock wave sends Worf flying to his left. He crawls back to his station and then falls to his left again. Immediately following, as Riker is screaming to Deana for a report, you can see Worf's hands holding on to the railing right behind Riker. The next instant he is to the right of his station (our left, bringing himself up) and in the very next scene he is seated at his station.
- Continuity: When Data and Geordi look at Data's emotion chip, which is supposedly suspended in a force field, the long close-up shows by the wobbling of the rotating chip that it is hanging from a string. The difference in motion is unmistakable. In the TNG episode "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Brothers (#4.3)" (1990), "Brothers", Dr. Soong inserts the emotion chip into Lore (who is impersonating Data) inside the side of his neck, yet in this movie, George inserts the emotion chip into a slot on top of Data's head.
- Continuity: The Enterprise-B's hull has outcroppings on either side of the main deflector, indicative of a modified Excelsior-class design. However, these outcroppings are not present as it warps past on its way to the Lakul and the Nexus energy ribbon. (This is actually a reused shot from Star Trek VI where the Excelsior was charging to the Enterprise's rescue)
- Revealing mistakes: When Data discovers his cat in the wreckage of the Enterprise, when he begins to cry, it is clearly visible that his makeup is coming off under the tears.
- Revealing mistakes: When Geordi and Data are looking at Data's emotion chip you can clearly see LeVar Burton's eyes through Geordi's visor. As he raises his eyebrow while emoting to Data's dialog, the lighting, which is more indirect and from above, filters down between his face and the visor back-lighting the visor and making his right eye visible. As he turns his head slightly you can also see his left eye, but not as clearly.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The toaster in Kirk's house may look like a Dualit, which doesn't "pop up" when done toasting. When done this model keeps the toast inside to keep it warm. There's a manual lever to raise the toast for removal. But we are several hundred years in the future, even in Kirk's time. How can we know this toaster does not operate the way we see it in the movie?
- Errors in geography: During the scene with Picard and Soran on Veridian III, talking about the Borg and time ("It's like a predator. It's stalking you."), there's one sequence when Picard and Soran stand face to face. You can clearly see that the sun is shining on the left side of Picard's face, but it's also shining on the left side of Soran's face, so they can't look at each other. Later on, Picard watches the trilithium missile launch and the sun explosion. He seems to be blinded by the sun, but again, it's shining on the left side of his face, so he can't be looking at it.
- Continuity: Riker orders Worf to launch a spread of torpedoes at Lursa's & B'Etor's Bird of Prey, yet the exterior shot shows the Enterprise firing only one.
- Revealing mistakes: When Picard's children arrive when he first enters the nexus, his youngest son, Thomas, can be seen mouthing the lines of his two sisters.
- Factual errors: When Dr. Soran fires the rocket from the planet to destroy the star, in reality, even traveling at light-speed, it would take at least several minutes for the rocket to impact the star. For example, it takes light from our star - the Sun - 8 minutes to reach Earth (traveling at light-speed). In the movie it only takes a matter of seconds for the rocket to reach the star. Even if the weapon had a warp drive it would still take the light from the star several minutes to reach the planet. Thus it would take several minutes to see anything happen.
- Revealing mistakes: The Enterprise-B has outcroppings on either side of the deflector dish, however if you look at the ship's schematics in the background and inside the turbolifts, you can see those schematics are of a standard Excelsior-class vessel, and those outcroppings do not appear on them.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Guinan who appears inside the Nexus tells Picard that she is an "echo" or a part of herself the real Guinan left behind when she was beamed away onto the Enterprise-B. Obviously Picard was not yet born by then and Guinan would not have known him 80 years ago, so how would she know Picard once he's inside the Nexus, if she didn't known him when she was in there herself? They did meet before in TNG: Time's Arrow: Part 1 and Part 2. Guinan tell Picard if he does not go on this mission they would never meet. They actually meet in the 1800s. in Ten-Forward, Picard is unnerved by a conversation with Guinan, who insists he break with tradition and accompany the Away Team back to the 19th century. Although she can give him no explanation. Guinan fails to recognize Data, but she is not shocked when he tells her that they serve together on the same starship in the 24th century. She listens with great concern to his story, subtly revealing that she, too, is not from Earth
- Plot holes: The gravimetric forces of the Nexus energy ribbon are so powerful they can destroy or severely damage any spacecraft, yet when the ribbon passes over the surface of Veridian III, scooping up Picard and Soran within it, the surrounding terrain somehow remains completely undamaged without so much a scratch.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Geordi returns to the Enterprise after his capture on the Klingon Bird of Prey, he is scene talking to Data in sickbay. Geordi is wearing the older Starfleet uniform (yellow jumper with black shoulders) but in the next scene when he walks into Engineering, he is seen wearing the newer uniform with the colors inverted (black jumper with yellow shoulders). One of the comments made by the Klingons while monitoring his activities is a recount of what he had done since leaving Sickbay. B'Etor first commented that "He bathed," so it's not unexpected that he would have changed uniforms.
- Continuity: In the transporter, when Picard is being beamed to the planet surface in exchange for Geordi, you can see his communicator pin. When he is on the surface of the planet, the pin is gone, when he meets Kirk in the Nexus, the communicator pin is back.
- Plot holes: Picard chooses to leave the Nexus with Kirk and go back to Viridian 3 only minutes before the launch, when he could have picked any time and place he wanted to return and stop Soran.
- Revealing mistakes: The uniforms worn by Riker and LaForge don't fit. This is because they're using the same ones worn by cast members of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993).
- Continuity: Immediately after Worf's promotion the bridge crew goes to the bridge. Worf, who had just been soaking wet on the holodeck, is now dry. Also, it can be seen that his knee no longer has red paint on it.
- Revealing mistakes: During the second saucer crashdown sequence after the trip through the Nexus, the first shot of the saucer hitting the planet surface is a swapped shot. It's made clear by the ship's very visible registry "NCC-1701-D" facing backwards.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the saucer separation sequence, there is a brief shot from under the Enterprise showing the saucer leaving the stardrive section. In that shot, what appear to be stars can be seen through the saucer itself, seemingly, due to ineffective or incorrect compositing. However some of these 'stars' appear to move, suggesting they are in fact jetsam being released from the docking area.
- Factual errors: If you stopped nuclear fusion in a star it would shrink as depicted but it's mass, and thus it's gravity field, would stay the same. Orbits (and passing energy ribbons) would be unaffected. Further as the matter in the star compressed it would grow much hotter and take several million years to cool. The star would get hotter and brighter, not dimmer.
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- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: After Pichard retrieves Captain Kirk's body from the chasm, he then entombs it in layer of rocks while awaiting the rescue shuttle. As we see Captain Picard standing next to the grave in the long shot, we can see a considerable difference between his standing height and the length of the tomb of Captain Kirk, even though, while alive, they were very close in relative stature.
- Plot holes: SPOILER: When Kirk first arrives on the Enterprise B, a reporter makes a statement to the effect that this is the "first Enterprise in 30 years without Captain Kirk in command". This is incorrect. In "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", Captain Willard Decker (who became Captain of the Enterprise after Kirk left to become a Starfleet Admiral) was in command of the Enterprise, and had been for some time, until Admiral Kirk arrived unexpectedly & took over. In addition, in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn", Captain Spock was in command of the Enterprise (and had been for some time) until Admiral Kirk again assumed emergency command unexpectedly (during a training cruise on which he was initially just an observer).
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