10 Biggest Continuity Errors In Star Trek

10. You Broke Your Little Ships - Star Trek: First Contact

In the scene in Star Trek: First Contact that Lily confronts Picard, there plays out a tense, yet outstanding exchange, that shows the seasoned officer finally losing his cool. Forced into facing the Borg once again, Picard is on the verge of losing the Enterprise-E to the Cybernetic horrors, driving him up and past the point of obsession.

Lily manages to goad him into revealing this, namedropping Captain Ahab from Moby Dick. Quite apart from reminding the audience of Khan in Star Trek II, it jabs Picard to the point where he roars in her face. After she shouts at him to destroy the ship, he flips, swinging his rifle around in an arc and smashing the display case containing the models of the various Enterprises.

As the rifle hits, it shatters the glass, but clearly misses impacting any of them. However, in the very next scene, Lily comments on how he 'broke his little ships', picking up the cracked remains of the Enterprise-D's stardrive section, while the saucer of the Enterprise-C lies broken beyond it. Unless these models are made of spun sugar, there was no reason that such damage should have been done by Picard's outburst.