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Originally Posted by Mark S.
I did catch one editing error in the movie though.
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I caught a couple. The most obvious one to me, which I noticed the first time around, was when Kirk and Sulu are on the drill. Kirk is dangling from the edge, holding on with his RIGHT hand. (His left hand had been stomped on by his Romulan foe.) Sulu comes to his rescue and says, "Give me your hand!" The next scene shows Kirk hanging on with his LEFT hand, while his right hand is locked with Sulu and Sulu is helping to drag him back onto the platform.
Another minor editing goof takes place near the end. Kirk has been fighting with Nero on board the Narada. Nero has been called away and has left Kirk to be dealt with by his 2nd-in-command, Ayel. Kirk jumps onto a platform in an effort to escape Ayel. We see him land, his body dangling off the platform. In front of him, on the ground, is a gun, the handle turned toward him. Then Ayel leaps onto the platform, hoists Kirk into the air. Kirk says, "I've got your gun!", shoots Ayel, then drops the gun. Ayel drops him and Kirk is dangling from the platform once more...with the gun once more in front of him, although this time it's positioned differently. Certainly not a big goof, but one I noticed.
One thing I definitely noticed and approved of was that the makeup people never seemed to lose track of Kirk's injuries. In the scene when he and Scotty are in the water-tube room, Kirk's left hand is shown and it's clearly red and damaged across the top...from having been stomped on by that Romulan, presumably. And there's a scene near the end when you can still see the marks on his throat from where Spock nearly choked him to death several scenes earlier.
Here's a random question: How do they designate rank on the uniforms of the women who are wearing the short-sleeved dress uniform? With the long-sleeved shirts that the men (and some of the women) wore, the rank is designated by the silver bands near the cuff. Chekhov, as an Ensign, has no band. Sulu, as a lieutenant, has one silver band. Bones is the doctor and they never really say his rank, but he's wearing one fat band and one thin band, denoting his rank as lieutenant commander. Spock, as commander, has two fat bands. And Pike, as captain, has a fat band, then a thin band, then a second fat band. (Which you also see on Kirk's uniform in the final scene when he's sitting in the captain's chair.)