Star Trek: The Next Generation ‘The Royale’ just started. Geordi says the planed it -291ºC. That’s impossible because absolute zero is -273ºC. (I’ve also noticed that he’ll say ‘degrees Kelvin’ or ‘Kelvins’ instead of just ‘Kelvin’.)
This one’s from the very beginning: there is no way, even when humans are capable of interstellar travel, that they wouldn’t be doubled over with laughter at the sight of an alien with a head shaped like a butt.
I prefer the original fan wank of that line- Han is just speaking gibberish to snow what he sees as two country yokels who won’t know better. He has no idea he’s speaking to a Jedi who has been all over the universe.
True, it is impossible, but I think that warp drive warps the space-time continuum and so it ‘folds’ faraway places so that they’re close together. Somebody please check me on that but I think that is the concept of warp drive?
In the TNG episode “Starship Mine” the Enterprise has to be evacuated to undergo a “baryon” sweep. All atoms are made of baryons so a sweep that got rid of them wouldn’t leave much left of the Enterprise.
Also the TNG episode “Genesis” has a huge amount of inaccuracies about genetics and evolution. I am not going to recount them all here when the TV tropes recap mentions most of them:
The unit was “degree Kelvin” for a long time. (Checking Wikipedia, it says until 1968.) So a valid nitpick, but understandable. I actually caught my high school science teacher with the same error.
As for “kelvin” vs “kelvins”, I always say the singular, but I can’t really complain because I use the plural “newtons”. It’s not clear to me what the correct form is other than the usage I’m familiar with.
Edited to add. The unit “kelvin” hasn’t been capitalized since 1968, either. So, you’re just as out of date.
The TNG episode “The Next Phase” -Geordi and Ro are phased out of sync with the rest of the universe due to a teleporter accident. They can see everyone else but nobody can see them, And they are intangible and can walks through walls and other solid objects.
However–like many works of fiction that deal with intangibility–they miraculously manage to NOT automatically fall through he floor and walk around normally.
In “Court Martial,” Kirk has the ship’s auditory sensors boosted “on the order of 1 to the 4th power” in order to find the heartbeat of a guy.
Some stuff can just be not what we’d expect, and have some sort of Treknobabel explanation we aren’t privy to. But that one is just obviously an inaccuracy.
And how can they see without being seen? Surely any photons that strike and interact with their retinas should be unavailable to strike anything behind them. If they’re seeing, they should be opaque and casting shadows at the very least.