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Continuity
Arrangement of Kirk's duelling pistols on the wall in the background when Sarek and Kirk are talking in Kirk's home.
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When the seal to Spock's quarters is broken, the Bridge displays of the ship and of Spock's quarters are based on the original Constitution-class vessels (from the TV show) and not the refitted movie version.
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Phase of the Earth's Moon when the Enterprise arrives at space dock after the battle with Khan, and when Kirk steals the Enterprise.
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In the self-destruction-scene it is said and shown on a screen that the time until the destruction of "Enterprise" is one minute - but it passes several minutes before the first explosion.
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When Kirk checks the video logs to find the keeper of Spock's katra, the timestamp reveals that Spock melded with McCoy on stardate 8128.78. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan begins on stardate 8130.3.
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The Security Alert screen features a diagram of a Constitution-class vessel from the Original Series instead of the refitted version from the movies. Also, the registry on the diagram is NCC-200.
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When Valkris, the Klingon spy, first approaches the freighter captain from behind, we can only see the bottom portion of her torso. We cannot see her face, but there definitely is something covering her front. However, when we see her face in the next shot, her face and torso are uncovered.
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The direction the Bird-of-Prey is turning as it opens fire on the cargo ship.
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When the USS Enterprise is stolen it is first seen reversing at an approximately 45 degree angle to the USS Excelsior which is in its bay, later, with no obvious course change, a head on shot of the Enterprise shows it reversing at a more parallel angle to the Excelsior (even before it turns slightly to align with the doors). The Enterprise leaves through the Excelsior's space doors rather than its own.
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During the self destruction of the Enterprise, there's an explosion where a Klingon goes flying over the navigation console. When he lands, an arm can be seen helping him.
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Miscellaneous
The USS Enterprise had more damage markings on the hull at the start of this film then it did at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Considering that this film was set immediately after the events of The Wrath of Khan, there is no explanation as to why these mysterious markings appear on the Enterprise. There were three markings on the hull at the end of the previous film, one to the star drive section, one to the neck section, and one to the underside of the saucer section. In this film the star drive section and warp engines are most notable for the mysterious damage.
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Revealing mistakes
When Kirk and Kruge are fighting, a piece of the cliff breaks away and wiggles down the side of the cliff rather than falling like a rock.
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Obvious stunt double for Kruge during his fight with Kirk.
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They totally redid the set for the inside of the turbolifts between this movie and the last one, so the turbolifts look completely different inside, meaning Scotty while attempting to repair the battle damage from the last movie apparently thought it necessary to make drastic changes to the inside of the turbolifts on the way back to space dock.
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The cargo ship gets noticeably larger when the Bird-of-Prey destroys it. All of a sudden, the cargo ship is LARGER than the Klingon vessel, compared to the earlier shot where the Bird-of-Prey decloaked directly above it.
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At the beginning of the pon farr sequence, a tree is uprooted next to Saavik. In a brief shot afterward, the tree can be seen to be falling on a Klingon officer, suggesting the shot may have been taken from a later sequence on the Genesis planet.
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When Kirk (William Shatner) calls "Red Alert" to Scotty (James Doohan) in the Enterprise control room, the master alarm sound effect is missing.
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In the opening sequence when the Enterprise fires Spock's casket at the Genesis Planet, several stars from the background can be seen through the translucent Genesis Planet image. The planet moves slowly to the right as the shot progresses, and yet the stars bleeding through the image from the background remain stationary.
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Obvious stunt double for Kirk during his fight with Kruge.
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