10 More Times Star Trek Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See
2. The Accidental Star Trek Logo Text
Star Trek doesn't like to break the fourth wall often, and when they do, it's usually not intentional. This was for sure the case in the Next Generation episode Identity Crisis, where we saw the Star Trek title logo appear on an engineering console extremely briefly.
The logo appeared and disappeared in the blink of an eye in the scene in engineering at around 16 minutes and 30 seconds in, and was removed from the remastered version of the series.
The logo was obviously just labelling done by the props and effects team, but this simple scene has so much fan theory potential. Do the characters of Next Gen know that they're in a TV show? Is the series all one big made-up propaganda piece for Starfleet and the Federation? Could the Enterprise computer be glitching through into our reality? Probably not, but we're Star Trek fans and reading too much into tiny details is what we do best.