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Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) More at IMDbPro »

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Spock and Saavik's Vulcan words were obviously dubbed in later.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the debris falls on Joachim.
  
  
• Continuity: Coat flap on Kirk's jacket during Spock's death scene.
  
  

• Continuity: When Scotty's nephew, Peter Preston, dies, he leaves a blood mark on the flap of Kirk's jacket. When you see Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise, the blood mark is lower on the flap and considerably smaller.
  
  
• Continuity: When Spock is dying, McCoy jumps from being in front of Kirk to being behind him between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: As McCoy and Scotty are preventing Kirk from entering the irradiated chamber with Spock ("You'll flood the whole compartment!"), when the camera is on Kirk from the front, they're facing in the same direction as Kirk, but when the shot switches to a POV behind Kirk, they're both facing the other way.
  
  
• Continuity: Scotty's position behind Kirk during Spock's funeral.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During many scenes of the Reliant in space, stars are visible through the Reliant's dark warp engines. Most noticeable when the ship flies past the camera after Kirk says "We don't have a few minutes!" This is seen as a goof, but is actually a limitation of the blue screen shots movie makers faced in the seventies and eighties.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although some object that Chekov wasn't part of the Enterprise crew in the episode "Star Trek: Space Seed (#1.22)" (1967) and therefore Khan could not have remembered his "face", in fact it is possible that Chekov *was* a crewmember at that time, merely not a member of the bridge crew. The earlier encounter between him and Khan might have taken place between "Space Seed" scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: After David Marcus says, "We can't just sit here," Admiral Kirk puts on his glasses and checks his watch, saying, "Oh, yes we can." In the very next shot, the glasses are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the docking with the Enterprise, shuttle control gives them permission to dock at the torpedo launching bay. Instead, the shuttle is clearly shown to dock near main engineering. In addition, Kirk and Co. clearly board the ship through the torpedo bay. The shuttlepod docking sequence, as well as additional visuals of Enterprise in and departing from drydock, are reused footage from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the discussion in Regula 1's transporter room before beaming down to Regula, Saavik is mouthing Kirk's and McCoy's lines in the foreground.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Wires are visible attached to Chekov's uniform when Khan lifts him up with one hand.
  
  
• Continuity: Several monitors on the bridge of the USS Reliant show ship diagrams that don't match the actual shape of the ship as we see it elsewhere in the movie - a result of the bridge set being used for both the Reliant and the Enterprise. Indeed, at least one of the diagrams is for a third design.
  
  
• Continuity: Khan has a warning torpedo fired at the Enterprise. After the torpedo explodes we see David and Carol Marcus, and McCoy, in the sickbay reacting to the explosion. Only six seconds pass (of movie time as well as "real" time) before the turbolift doors open on the bridge with David as a passenger. In the Director's Edition DVD, restored footage allowed a longer period of time between Khan's "warning shot" and David's appearance on the Bridge a moment later.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chekov and Terrell explore Ceti Alpha V, earphones can clearly be seen through the visors of their spacesuit helmets. When they enter the shelter they discovered and take off their helmets, the earphones are gone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Scotty and McCoy are yelling at Spock not to open the main energizer, Scotty's and McCoy's mouths are not moving in sync with the words being spoken.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Scotty is playing the bagpipes at Spocks funeral, the drones are pointed to the side and the bag is not inflated.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In an overhead shot of Space Station Regula 1 over a moon (directly after the Enterprise departs from drydock), Regula 1 is noticeably transparent; craters can be easily seen through the station. This is seen as a goof, but is actually a limitation of the blue screen shots movie makers faced in the seventies and eighties.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Shortly after the Enterprise and Reliant enter the Nebula, there is an overhead shot of the Enterprise with Reliant down below in the distance. During this shot, the rear-end of the Enterprise's starboard nacelle disappears for a few seconds.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Captain Terrell and Chekov first meet Khan on Ceti Alpha V, Khan claims that, "On Earth, 200 years ago, I was a prince". Apparently, Khan's math (based on the year 1996) rounded up-from the early 21st Century. It is the year 2285, which would place it around 300 years after Khan left Earth in the Botany Bay, not 200.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Kirk, McCoy, Saavik, Terrell, and Chekov beam down into the Genesis cave, Khan is monitoring through the wrist bands on Terrell and Chekov. The first thing Terrell says to Khan is: "You have the coordinates of the Genesis device" and Khan beams it aboard. When did he get the coordinates? He had the coordinates of the general area where our heroic gang beam into, but how does he precisely lock on Genesis?
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the mind-control worm is phasered into nonexistence, its squeal can still be heard after it has disappeared.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the mind-control worm is leaving Chekov's head via his ear, the worm is not leaving from his ear hole in the shot showing his entire head. The worm is in fact higher on this ear, where no hole exists.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the original-series episode "The Space Seed", Khan was marooned on Ceti Alpha V with a few dozen of his followers, all of whom were about his same age (roughly their mid-thirties). Now in the movie, set fifteen years later, Khan has aged, but he's surrounded by followers who are all appear to be in their twenties; they're too young to have been the disciples with him in the original episode, but too old to have been born on the planet. However, this is possibly a sign of their augmented, genetic aging process.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As Spock has Saavik take the Enterprise out of space dock, he refers to her as "Mr. Saavik". However, Star Fleet appears to follow Naval traditions (i.e. the rank of Admiral) and in the Navy, officers have historically been referred as Mr. or Sir, regardless of gender.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first battle, the blasts from the Enterprise's phasers hit the blue dome at the rear of Reliant and it explodes. In an aft shot of Reliant moments later there is a slight shot of the dome still intact, though not brightly lit.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): David Marcus says that he encoded the Genesis torpedo with a four minute countdown. But when Khan activates the Genesis device it begins counting down from 999 at a rate of about 2 each second, which makes it approximately eight minutes until detonation.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the computer image of the Genesis probe approaching the planet, the camera is about to collide with a mountain when a narrow canyon blinks into existence to let it through. Since this is a computer generated image in the context of the movie, there's no reason that shouldn't happen.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Khan tells Kirk of the "old Klingon proverb", that "revenge is a dish best served cold". This is, in fact, an Earth proverb.
  
  
• Plot holes: When rescued by the away team on Regula-1, Captain Terrell tells Kirk that Khan "blames [him] for the death of his wife", and Kirk replies "I know what he blames me for". However, earlier in the film Khan had explained to Terrell and Chekov that his wife was killed by one of the ear leech creatures on Seti Alpha V. Kirk hasn't had any contact with Khan or anyone who's been in contact with him since that point beyond their brief battle where this information was not exchanged, so how could he know what Khan blames him for?
  
  
• Miscellaneous: On Michael Okuda's text commentary on the DVD, he claims the computer on Kirk's apartment desk is a Commodore 64. It's actually a Commodore PET.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the Enterprise's final appearance on camera in the film, stars can be seen through it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Khan leans forward, the wound on his chest "crinkles" visibly, as only a glued-on rubber prosthetic would do. However, his wound seems to be fresh and/or infected - causing the skin to swell. If this wound is now compressed by the surrounding skin/muscle tissue, it will wrinkle as seen on screen.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When the Reliant is finally attacked by the Enterprise and Khan's first mate is mortally wounded, the first mate dies with his eyes open. Khan swears to avenge him and hugs him fiercely to his chest - and the actor blinks.
  
  

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