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Brent Spiner, Richard Allen, Grainger Hines, and Mark L. Taylor in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Goofs

The Ensigns of Command

Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Continuity

After the establishment shot clearly showing the Enterprise well underway to intercept the Sheliak, Picard enters the transporter room to check on progress of getting the transporter to function despite the planet's radiation. Yet, a test is then performed beaming an object from the planet surface from which they've already departed.
When Ard'rian asks Data whether his neural pathways are duotronic, she holds her hands in front of her, but has them hanging down in the very next shot.
After an establishing shot showing the Sheliak ship stopping in front of the Enterprise, Picard orders the Enterprise to move nose-to-nose with them. But they're already in that position.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

While discussing with the captain how they are going to negotiate a compromise with the Sheliak, Troi tells Picard that the Federation sent 372 legal experts to hammer out the original treaty. She then asks Picard, "What do we have?" To which Picard answers, "Thee and me."

There are over 1,000 people on board the Enterprise. It is difficult to believe that there isn't anyone else on board that can handle legal matters, and that all Picard can count on for something this critical is himself and a psychologist.

Picard was clearly speaking in jest.
The shuttlecraft Onizuka has the number "05". However, in Time Squared (1989) and Transfigurations (1990), that number belongs to the shuttle "El Baz". However, shuttlecraft on starships have been shown to regularly be lost or replaced, with their numerical designation given to the replacement. The El Baz was likely lost or retired since its previous appearance and the Onizuka is its replacement as the 5th shuttle attached to the Enterprise.

Revealing mistakes

When Picard checks on the transporter team's status, Geordi steps on the transporter platform and you can see the container sway slightly before he picks it up.

Miscellaneous

When Picard is called up to the bridge, he arrives and Riker is seated in the first officer's chair. As Riker had command until Picard arrived, he should have been seated in the captain's chair.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

Gosheven's spoken words do not match his mouth movements at various points throughout the episode.

Plot holes

Rather a small gathering in the town square out of a population of 15,000, especially given the momentous weight of the subject under discussion.
Geordi and Miles continue testing the transporters' ability to beam through the planet's radiation even after the Enterprise has left orbit and is moving away at warp speed to intercept the Sheliak vessel. Transporters have a fairly limited range, far smaller than the distance between the planet and a ship that would be, by that point, lightyears away.

Character error

Picard orders Riker to keep the Enterprise nose-to-nose with the Sheliak, and to move as they move. This order should've been given to the conn officer, whose job it is to move the ship.
When Data is trying to emotionally influence the colonists to evacuate Tau Cygna V, he tells them that "their courage will be remembered and extolled," to which Ard'rian replies, "Remembered by who?" Data answers, "Yes, that is true." Data would most likely not have responded that way, since only a statement, not a question, can be true or false.

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