When Kirk, Bones and Spock are flying up the turbolift shaft, the deck number gets higher as they go upwards. However Star Trek ships are numbered the opposite way round with the higher decks having lower numbers. For instance, the bridge (at the top of the ship) is on deck 1.
The Enterprise's deck numbering changes radically in the turbo shaft scenes (with deck numbering as high as 70 and repeating.) The deck numbering is much higher than any previously established for the Enterprise, and the repeating of the numbers is an acknowledged continuity error.
As Kirk McCoy and Spock shoot up the turbo shaft they pass decks 35, 52, 64, 52 again! Then 77, 78 and 78 again as Kirk is shouting "Hit the brakes!"
When the shuttle approaches the Enterprise from Nimbus III the shuttle bay doors open. When the shuttle heads for the Enterprise the doors are closed and then they're open again
The shuttle bay door model and its interior set do not match the size of the bay implicated by the Enterprise model - they are both by far too small. Moreover, the ratio of width to height differs from set to both models.
In the opening scene, Spock flies and hovers using rocket boots, but at the end of Kirk's fall, he is simply hanging inverted in the air at an angle which should have caused the rocket boots to drive him headfirst into the ground.
Safety wires holding Kirk when caught by Spock.
When Kirk fights Sybok in the shuttle bay and Sybok lifts Kirk off the ground, wires attached to Kirk's legs are visible.
Wire holding the dancing cat's tail.
As Kirk and McCoy are climbing the turboshaft, the walls of the turboshaft can be seen to flex.
Obvious double in the upside-down shot of Bones running toward Kirk after his fall from the mountain.
When Krik, Spock, and McCoy try to leave Sha Ka Ree in the shuttle, Spock finds that the thrusters are inoperable, most likely from the "God" entity. Yet, "God" allows the transporters to operate when Spock and McCoy are beamed away.
When Captain Klaa is racing to intercept the Enterprise, the Klingon officer Vixis states that they are 8000 kellicams (assuming that's the Klingon version of kilometers) from them, but they are still at warp speed, which means that by the time they dropped out of warp, they would have seriously overshot the Enterprise.
When Mr. Spock goes to check on Capt. Kirk as he is climbing El Capitan, Spock's jet boots do not have intake and exhaust ports on the upper and lower portion, so how could he fly down faster than Kirk was falling and rescue him? Kirk would have hit the ground in about five seconds but Mr. Spock takes longer than that to change downward and catch up to Captain Kirk.
The Enterprise's photon torpedo is not enough to entirely destroy the God entity, yet moments later, Klingon disruptors can.
When the shuttle Galileo is landing for the first time in the Enterprise landing bay, the feet of a film crewman can be seen walking next to the port pod of the shuttle.
Just before the fight on Nimbus III, a shadow of a camera is clearly visible on Kirk's horse's head.
When Kirk and Sybok are fighting in the loading bay at around the 52 min mark you can see wires supporting Kirk while being thrown around.
The camera is reflected in a bridge monitor when the Bird of Prey is closing, while Spock, Kirk, Sybok, McCoy are on Sha Ka Ree.
The part of the descender where it is attached to the stunt man's harness in the El Capitan scene can clearly be seen.
The film depicts the Enterprise-A traveling to planet Sha Ka Ree in a relatively short period of time. According to numerous Star Trek-canon sources, the speed of Warp 9 (the top speed of the Enterprise) is between 729 to 1000 times the speed of light. The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy (where planet Sha Ka Ree is located) is 25000 light years away. This would mean that it would take the Enterprise a minimum of 25-35 years to travel from Nimbus III (presumably located at most a few hundred light years from Earth) to Sha Ka Ree. For comparative purposes, the titular ship in Star Trek: Voyager (1995) was stranded 70,000 light years from Earth, and with a much faster top-speed than the Enterprise-A, it was stated that it would've taken them 75 years at maximum warp to get home.
There is no way that the Enterprise could have gotten to the center of the galaxy in anything less than decades unless there was some sort of "short cut" through subspace that they could make use of to cut the time required for the trip.
As established in Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), the Barrier is on the outside of the Milky Way galaxy - not in the center.
Even at maximum warp the Enterprise could not travel from Earth or Nimbus III to the center of the galaxy in the crew's lifetime. It would take thousands of years to make it one way. The distance from earth to the center of our galaxy is about 22400 light years.
In the opening scene at Yosemite, the suns rays follow the clouds and not the angle of the sun.
At the beginning of the movie, an admiral claims they must
send Kirk to resolve the situation on Nimbus III because he's the only experienced commander available. That may be true, but there's no need to send him on the malfunctioning Enterprise, especially since the transporters, which would be highly important in a hostage situation, are not functional.
With only one shuttle craft on Nimbus III, and the transporters offline, there is no way that all of the insurgents could have gotten off the surface and onto the Enterprise as it warps away immediately.
When climbing the turbo lift, Spock leaves to get his rocket boots, but suddenly appears from above to help Kirk and McCoy. How did he get past them without them seeing or hearing him?
Kirk mentions that he intentionally left his communicator on the Enterprise. That doesn't explain Uhura forgetting to call Spock or McCoy before taking a shuttle down.
In Star Trek lore, each star ship has one Captain and one Commander who is usually the first officer. However for some unexplained reason, the new Enterprise A, at the end of this movie, is manned by 3 Captains being Kirk, Spock and Scotty, and 4 commanders being McCoy, Uhura, Sulu and Chekov.
This would certainly cause an issue in the command structure, as if any of the 3 captains came to a disagreement anyone below them would be unable to follow any orders given by one as they could be over ridden by the other and vice versa.
This would certainly cause an issue in the command structure, as if any of the 3 captains came to a disagreement anyone below them would be unable to follow any orders given by one as they could be over ridden by the other and vice versa.
Sybok says that Columbus proved the world was round. This is a common misconception. In fact, the circular globe had been developed nearly 100 years before Columbus sent sail on his voyage, and the fact that the Earth is round had actually been proved by the ancient Greeks by measuring shadows at different distances from the equator. (It could be argued that, being a Vulcan, Sybok has inadequate knowledge of Earth history.)
At two different times in the movie, the Klingon captain says the exact same line of Klingon dialogue, though it is captioned differently each time. The subtitle for one is "Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle", the other is "Then the Federation will be sending a rescue ship." The Klingon uttered both times is: vaj toDDujDaj ngeHbej DIvI'. The actor said the wrong words on one of them. Later, Marc Okrand, who invented the Klingon language and did the Klingon dialogue for the film, came up with a backfit to explain how the same set of syllables actually could have these two radically different meanings.
In all Star Trek movies and in Hollywood, in general, the Russian accent is wrong. Chekov tells Sybok he is in "wiolation" of treaty. Russians have the "V" sound, but not the "W". An alcoholic drink would be pronounced "viskey." Hollywood regularly reverses Russian pronunciation.
After Dr. McCoy tells Spock that the secret ingredient in his beans is Tennessee whiskey, Kirk says, "Bourbon and beans, an explosive combination." But Tennessee whiskey is not bourbon. Although both are made from (at least 51%) corn mash, Tennessee whiskey undergoes a unique filtration process known as the "Lincoln County Process," and bourbon does not.
At the beginning of the movie, when Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are sleeping in Yosemite, Uhura arrives in a shuttle craft -- sent by Scotty -- because there's an urgent message for Kirk aboard the Enterprise, and the ship's transporters are not working. Yosemite is on Earth, and it has long been established that there are transporters on Earth, as well as at the space station in orbit. Any one of those could have transported Kirk, Spock, and McCoy from Yosemite to it's home location, and then on to the Enterprise, in moments, rather than however long it takes Uhura to fly a shuttle to the surface and back. KSM didn't have communicators, but ship-board sensors could have located them in the park, or search teams sent by transporter: all would have been faster ways of contacting Kirk.