10 Movie Mistakes That Became Canon

5. The Talkative Extra - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is just one hell of a wild movie, revolving around the Enterprise's crew traveling back through time to 1986 San Francisco.

The characters are all portioned off into their own respective subplots, with Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) and Chekov (Walter Koenig) being tasked with finding a nuclear reactor that will let them return to the 23rd century.

Cue an hilarious skit where the duo start asking random locals how they can locate the "nuclear wessels," as Chekov so wonderfully puts it. Though the extras in the area were under instruction not to speak to the pair but simply keep walking, one extra evidently didn't get the message.

Layla Sarakalo decided to shoot her shot, telling the pair, "I don't know if I know the answer to that... I think it's across the bay, in Alameda."

Look closely at Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig and you can see their genuine surprise at her response, yet ever the pros, they manage to stay in character enough for Koenig to retort, "That's what I said, Alameda."

Ultimately director Leonard Nimoy liked Sarakalo's contribution despite going off-piste from her instructions, and so the small but memorable interaction was actually kept in the film. Better yet, because she had a speaking line she even earned her Screen Actors Guild card.

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