Trivia / Star Trek Specter

• Blooper: Despite the fairly high production values, Specter has a few of these:
  • In the prologue, "commander" Reyf is seen wearing captain's pips. Also, in several shots, the auxiliary navigation panel in Garr's cockpit is unlit.
  • Arguably, in the prologue the use of the term "shuttlecraft" to describe the ship Garr is flying around in could count, since continuity establishes that that type of ship is properly referred to as a "runabout."
  • In the wide pan of Dr. Chellik's office, he's clearly looking to his left at the computer terminal. But when we cut to the closeup, he's looking down at the padd he's holding.
  • In the crew briefing scene, pay attention to the black glass tabletop in the opening shot. Notice Reyf has no reflection; this is a result of how the shot was made, with Reyf, the set, and the warp stars all being separate pieces of footage which were then composited together.
  • Also pay careful attention to the keypads to either side of the wall monitor Reyf is standing next to. From shot to shot, they change size and position.
    • A similar blooper occurred in several TNG episodes, when the prop keypads on the set kept disappearing, and had to be replaced and repositioned for some shots. This resulted in the keypads being in one position for wide shots, and another position for closeups.
  • In the same scene, note that several times the warp stars seem to switch directions, sometimes going in their proper direction, while in others they seem to be moving perpendicular to the ship. This is the result of the scene originally having different shots in those places, only to have those shots switched out and the warp stars never adjusted accordingly.
  • In a blooper that largely went unnoticed, the "alert bars" at the back of the Fitzgerald bridge set were accidentally swapped (port for starboard and vice versa).
• Recycled Set:
  • Look closely at some of the Fitzgerald sets and you'll quickly realize that they're actually redressed Voyager sets.
    • An even better example is Science Lab Four, which is very obviously a recolored version of the Voyager science lab, stocked with TNG props.
  • Also if you look closely, Dr. Chellik's office in the beginning is based very closely on Admiral Cain's quarters from the second season of Battlestar Galactica.
• Schedule Slip. Specter was being released as it was being produced, and during some of the longer stopdowns, fans were known to ask if any more were forthcoming.
• Throw It In!: During the starship chase sequence, Ronston's utterance of "That's not fair!" was ad libbed.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Early script drafts referenced live-action sequences.
  • Also, original plans mentioned the ISS Voyager to face off against a Borg ship like the Borg fortress from the TNG episode "Descent."
  • They also reference a Sovereign-class USS F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Word of God: The aforementioned thread at Scifi-Meshes.com
• You Look Familiar:
  • Captain Mantell (from the prologue) and Dr. Edward Chellik are played by the exact same character model, just with different uniforms, to the point that some people initially thought Chellik was Mantell. See also, the helm officer from the prologue and Lt. Kendra Erickson.
  • This is also why the Fitzgerald Ops officer is redshirted. He was played by the exact same character model as the ship's first officer, only with different hair and eye coloring.