Answer (1 of 14): The term “continuity error” gets thrown around a lot in reference to Trek, oftentimes erroneously.
Some of the most famous “continuity errors” can be explained with a little imagination and common sense.
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you mean like new zealand missing in first contact?
Obviously you’re going to cloak the facility where you keep your most hardened criminals.
elsewhere in the film, new zealand is on a map shown on a display.
Obviously you’re going to keep the facility where you keep their most hardened criminals in plain sight.
I contend that it is not actually missing, it’s just not visible from that perspective. When I recreate the shot in Google Earth only the extreme north tip of New Zealand is actually visible:
There’s a lot north of Auckland, its a 5 and a half hour drive to Cape Reinga
But I have to agree that it is barely visible.