Sloppy Scripting Put A Huge Plot Gap In Star Trek’s And The Youngsters Shall Lead Episode

Previous to the “summon up the Gorgan” second within the fourth act of the episode, Kirk hadn’t been informed Gorgan’s title, and there was no method he may have discovered it. Later, when Kirk lastly confronts Gorgan, he asks the apparition’s title. One of many children, Tommy (Craig Huxley), informs Kirk for the primary time. “He’s Gorgan,” Tommy says. “He’s our buddy — and he’s omnipotent.”

Kirk’s use of the title “Gorgan” seems each within the unique script and within the ultimate broadcast model of the episode. It was an error that slipped by means of all the best way to manufacturing. The Orion Press web site posits that the gaffe was the results of an modifying error in the course of the scriptwriting part.

Recognizing errors in “Star Trek” is, after all, a sturdy extracurricular sport generally performed by Trekkies, and is normally completed playfully. Certainly, writer Phil Farrand assembled a number of definitive texts of “Star Trek” errors in “The Nitpicker’s Information for Subsequent Technology Trekkers” (1993), “The Nitpicker’s Information for Traditional Trekkers” (1994), “The Nitpicker’s Information for Subsequent Technology Trekkers, Quantity II” in 1995, and “The Nitpicker’s Information for Deep House 9 Trekkers” in 1996.

Farrand famous a number of different conspicuous errors in “And the Youngsters Shall Lead” past the mere Gorgan gaffe. For one, Kirk appears to have deserted a pair of safety guards on the planet when the Enterprise left with the kids. Oops. In one other scene, the kids watch archive footage of their dad and mom, and the recording machine will be seen within the archive footage. Oops. Afterward, Kirk and Spock enter a turbolift, give no voice directions, but nonetheless arrive at their vacation spot.

Nitpicky? Positively. Enjoyable to identify? Completely. In spite of everything, being a Trekkie is a full-contact sport.