Goofs for
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

photos

board

trailer

details

• Continuity: When Picard destroys the Borg Queen's skull, his reflection can be seen to stand up, but in the next shot he is still kneeling.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scenes when they are showing the "maglock" handles, some of the shots show that the locks are already in the "open" position before they are turned and unlocked.
  
  
• Continuity: As the velocity meter on the Phoenix is increasing thru 20900 km/s, it flips over to 20000 km/s not 21000 km/s
  
  

• Continuity: During Picard's briefing of the commando teams about their objectives, they arm themselves with phaser rifles. As Picard and Data approach the Borg lair, their team is holding a different kind of weapon. During the subsequent fight with the Borg, everyone is again holding the first type of phaser.
  
  
• Continuity: When Data jumps down while Lily is shooting at him, he has no bullet holes in his clothing as he walks towards her.
  
  
• Continuity: When the camera gets a shot of the holodeck doors right before Picard shoots the Borg wall with his phaser, the ID sticker on the door reads "08 HOLOSUITE 4". When the Borg force their fingers through the seam to open the door, the ID sticker now says "0820 HOLODECK 07".
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Data and Picard turn a corner in a corridor before opening the hatch to deck 16, a stage light with an orange over is visible for a moment as they round the corner.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the Borg Queen tries to maintain her grip on Picard's leg in Engineering, she leaves a smear of metallic paint/makeup on his pants.
  
  
• Continuity: When Picard smashes the display case, the Enterprise D is still up. However, when Lilly comments that he broke the ships and picks up some pieces, they are of the Enterprise D.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the holodeck scene, the audio seems to have muted trumpets and trombones throughout the scene, but the visual only shows muted trombones.
  
  
• Continuity: When Picard goes into the conference room to work on new modulations he and Lily enter it from the left side of the Bridge. When they go back onto the Bridge after Lily convinces him to blow up the ship, they walk through the same door in the conference room, yet come out on the right side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Cochrane reacts to the phaser beam fired by Riker a fraction of a second before it actually hits him.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Picard misquotes Moby Dick when he says, "And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it." The actual quote by Melville reads, "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
  
  
• Continuity: When Picard tries to convince Lily that he is a friend and asks for the phaser, she is seen starting to lower it and hand it over to him. The next time the camera is on her, she is clearly pointing the phaser at him. Only abit later does she lower it and hand it to Picard.
  
  

Related Links