When Spock enters the briefing room after being infected, the "Briefing Room 2" sign hangs on the bulkhead to the left of the door. When Kirk exits the same briefing room later, the sign is now hanging to the right of the door.
The outside view of the ship shows the planet to be rotating clockwise, the viewer shows counter-clockwise.
When McCoy goes to inoculate Kirk with the vaccine/serum, he rips the shirt off Kirk's shoulder before using the hypo. This is the only time this occurs when a hypo is used, as it is normally established that hypos work through clothing.
When Kirk and Scotty break into the engine room, Kirk grabs the back of Riley's chair and turns it around to face him. There is an immediate cut to a close-up frontal shot of Riley, and Kirk's arm is nowhere to be seen on the chair.
Granted that after Lieutenant Riley turned the ship's engines off, it would have been impossible to re-start the warp engines in the time available except by using risky method depicted. However, there was no mention of whether it was possible to re-start the impulse engines, which are capable of all speeds within the sub-light realm and would certainly have been more than sufficient to restore the 'Enterprise's' orbit.
When Kirk specifies a course to leave the planet, he specifies a 'hyperbolic' course, which makes no sense, since it refers to a hyperbola. A hyperbola can be thought of as two parabolas facing each other (their open ends pointing away from each other). How that figure can be used to define the course of a single ship is difficult to imagine. It would be more likely that the correct course description should have been 'parabolic'. However, a hyperbola is not actually "two parabolas" facing each other; a parabola is a curve with eccentricity of 1, and a hyperbola is a curve with eccentricity greater than one. (An ellipse is a curve with eccentricity less than one, with an eccentricity of 0 specifying a circle.) While a plane intersecting a conic section results in a "twin" hyperbola (since the plane must intersect each "half" of the cone somewhere), an object in an orbit is actually only using one "side" of the hyperbola.
When Scotty finishes cutting through the bulkhead in order to regain entry to Engineering, the piece he cut out is very hot and in fact is smoking, but Scotty grabs it with his bare hands to remove it and yet doesn't get burned. Update: Note that Scotty grabs the cut panel at the bottom-right, where he had cut it much earlier. The panel was only smoking from the top, where he had just finished cutting it. The panel would have had time to cool at the bottom-right by the time he grabbed it. And, given the location of the cut panel, and the equipment behind it, the material used in the bulkhead would almost certainly have properties that would insulate the crew from any heat generated by the equipment behind the panel, so the cut piece would have been cool enough to handle.
Everyone who touches someone affected becomes affected themselves, except for Uhura. Although she comes into contact with Sulu's hand and bare torso, she remains unaffected.
Nurse Chapel is wearing an obvious wig. This is particularly noticeable when at one point in sick bay she touches her head and her hair turns very slightly.
Of course Nurse Chapel is wearing a wig. Given the duties of all the personnel and the need for them to report to duty at a moments notice wigs would be a great time saving accessory. This is not a goof.
Of course Nurse Chapel is wearing a wig. Given the duties of all the personnel and the need for them to report to duty at a moments notice wigs would be a great time saving accessory. This is not a goof.
When Sulu is injected with the cure, he reacts instantly and knows just where he is. When Kirk is injected, he doesn't react at all, but continues on as if forcing himself to ignore the virus.
To find fault with how William Shatner reacts to saving his ship and receiving the vaccine is to deny the drama of the show. Please delete this. It is not a plot hole.
To find fault with how William Shatner reacts to saving his ship and receiving the vaccine is to deny the drama of the show. Please delete this. It is not a plot hole.
When they are exploring the base on the planet, full of frozen bodies, they examine a frozen female corpse. It is quite clearly a shop-window dummy.
Near the end right after Scotty cuts through the wall, Kirk walks behind him and the camera bounces up and down. Not sure if he hit a part of the stand but it is noticeable.
Towards the end, Kirk orders a hyperbolic course, and Lieutenant Brent, at the navigator's station, asks for a direction. But he turns to the right to face Spock's station (Spock is in engineering) when he asks it. Kirk is over Brent's left shoulder, but if Brent had turned that way to deliver his line, he'd have had his back to the camera.
After they return from the planet, Kirk is recording in his captain's log and says "... but unknown to us, an infectious disease is spreading among the crew." If it is unknown to them, Kirk couldn't report it in the captain's log.
After it becomes clear that Riley is infected, Spock orders him to report to Sickbay and then calls security and tells them to "see to it that he arrives". Although Riley does go to Sickbay, he doesn't stay there and ends up taking over Engineering. Security apparently never follows up on Spock's order. If they had, they would have been there to stop Riley before he could get to Engineering.
Spock has super-sensitive hearing, yet he is completely unaware of the conversation between Riley and Sulu when Sulu decides to leave the Bridge. Even when Riley nervously looks over to Spock's station and then says "Sulu" loudly enough to be heard with normal hearing, Spock doesn't hear him or know that Sulu has left the Bridge until later.
Spock says this solar system's sun has gone dark, yet the planet is clearly illuminated as though the sun is still shining.
Tormolen snaps that Sulu doesn't "rank" (outrank) him. Tormolen is a lieutenant junior grade (the only one seen in the series), while Sulu is a full lieutenant. So technically, Sulu does outrank him.
Part of the delay involved in getting into Engineering is that Scotty has to cut through the wall beside the door to get at the door mechanism to unlock it. He has to go slowly as to not damage circuits behind the wall, and the phaser appears to be on a lower power setting.
So why didn't Scotty just cut through the door? He wouldn't have to had work nearly as slowly, and he would probably have been able to just disintegrate the door right away, rather than having to reduce the phaser's power setting and cutting slowly. Given the time crunch, it would have been much faster than trying to open the door itself.
So why didn't Scotty just cut through the door? He wouldn't have to had work nearly as slowly, and he would probably have been able to just disintegrate the door right away, rather than having to reduce the phaser's power setting and cutting slowly. Given the time crunch, it would have been much faster than trying to open the door itself.
As a bridge officer, Uhura no doubt was trained to assume the navigation station in an emergency. However, It is doubtful that a Yeoman such as Rand would be qualified to "take the helm" when Kirk orders it.
After Sulu's sword-brandishing rampage on the bridge, Spock gives him a Vulcan nerve pinch, then says "Take D'Artagnan here to sick bay." This use of a humorous metaphor is at odds with Spock's ultra-literal, no-nonsense manner of speaking. Especially because it is later revealed that the virus makes Spock sad, and even less likely than usual to make jokes.