221ande@nmtvax.UUCP (06/16/83)
The most glaring error I've seen in Star Trek occured in "Journey to
Babel" (the one where the enterprise was ferrying ambasadors of many
planets and races to a conference on a planet called Babel).
At the end of the second or third act (act: a portion of a TV show
between the commercials) Kirk gets stabbed by an alien masquerading
as an Andorian. He is stabbed in the back on the right, just above
the pelvic bone (looks like it was very close to the right kidney).
Kirk gets to intercom and falls over. Break for commercial.
Next scene: Sickbay. Kirk lying on bed looking sick. Spock and McCoy
standing looking worried.
McCoy (quote) says: "It's a bad wound. Punctured the left lung. A few
centimeters lower and it would have gone through
the heart."
THIS is the man to whom the health of the entire SHIP has been entrusted?
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Also, in Alan Dean Foster's adaptations of the Star Trek cartoons, he
spells the name of Spock's pet's species as "sehlat". I don't remember
the name of his particular animal, but it did have one.