13 Silly Mistakes You Won't Believe Made It Into Star Trek Movies
2. What's The Right Registry?
Star Trek Into Darkness is not the greatest Star Trek film. It's not a particularly good film in general, though it is entertaining. The action is thrilling, the designs are engaging and the logic is totally absent. The performances are quite good, even if it is a sub-par remake of the Wrath of Khan.
There are many, many mistakes to pick in this film, from the constant colour changes of Uhura's earrings to the fact that the Enterprise is pulled down into Earth's gravity, despite hovering beside the Moon. There's even the location change for the Enterprise's trash port after Kirk and Khan take their spacewalk. Any of those examples would suit this list.
There are some things in Star Trek that are really quite hard to get wrong. The registry of the USS Enterprise is one of them. The most famous ship in the franchise has and has always had the registry NCC-1701. Therefore, when Sulu's display panel shows NCC-0514, it's both incredibly obvious and more than a little frustrating.
NCC-0514 is the registry of the USS Kelvin from the previous film. If the Enterprise was a new ship introduced for this movie, it may be forgivable. Instead, its a fairly obvious blunder.