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** Screenrant delivered an [[https://screenrant.com/star-trek-discovery-broke-canon-facts-trivia/ opinion piece]] titled "15 Times That Discovery Has Brazenly Broken Canon". While many of the listed items could be described as "retcons" or situations that strained logic, or simply situations that had not been answered yet, almost none constitute "canon breaks" and those that do aren't any worse than those committed by every ''Trek'' series to ever exist. Some of them make you wonder just what the writer was thinking, such as saying the concurrent fleet is "too large" (based on the idea that there were only 12 Constitution-classes and extrapolating from that idea that the fleet had only a couple dozen ships in total. Huh?) or "Captain Pike is a hero too early", which assumes that [[{{Fanon}} Pike took command of the ''Enterprise'' in 2254]], a long-assumed, but incorrect, idea (that was merely how long Spock had served with him).

''Series/DoctorWho'' has endured more than five decades of people getting basic concepts from the show very wrong.

*** On the subject of that episode, [[https://www.pbsnc.org/blogs/education/building-resilience-with-donkey-hodie/ this article on the educational themes of "Donkey's Bad Day"]] claims Donkey misplaces a toy in the episode. It's likely whoever wrote it confused it for the "Donkey and Panda Cheer Up", which also has a similar plot and a scene where Purple Panda misplaces a toy.

* This used to be even worse. Most [=DVDs=] of ''Series/DoctorWho'' serials from the 70s and 80s have continuity announcements (taped or audio-recorded by fans) as extras which, more often than not, have something wrong with them. These range from mispronunciations of fictional aliens and planets to announcements that seem to be describing a totally different series. Also, many fans remember an announcer pronouncing the show's abbreviated title (''Dr. Who'') as a single word (Drrhuu?), but no tape has surfaced yet to prove that it ever happened.

* Something somewhere on the net said that Richard Hatch played Lee Adama in the 70s ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' series. BUZZ! In the original series, the character had no name other than Apollo. Only in [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 the re-imagined series]] is his name Lee Adama with the callsign Apollo.
** A rather unusual situation developed in the early days of the reimagined ''Galactica''. Some of the fans of the original series were so mad about the remake, that they turned their entire boards' attention to complaining. This began a cycle of, every episode, a single individual who'd watched the show just to bash it posting a brief summary of the events, and the various people who hadn't watched the show complaining about "plot holes" that didn't exist in the original material. Examples included: people not realizing Baltar was crazy even though he "frequently masturbated in public" (this was based on a single incident in which Starbuck walked in on him in his lab), Starbuck was able to make it back to Caprica in a single jump at the end of season 1 (technically true, but she did it with Cylon technology for that exact purpose), and the Colonists just stopped on a random planet and started a new colony with the Cylons still chasing them (in-series it was made clear that the Cylons could not detect them while they were on that planet, or at least, it took them quite a while to do so).

** The sheer amount of confusion between Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and Sharon "Athena" Agathon could almost be the subject of a book all on its own. Much of the confusion stems from the belief of casual viewers that they are the same person with split personalities, or some variant on that belief. They are in fact two separate Cylons, both of the Number 8 line, so they look identical, one of whom, Boomer, was a sleeper agent on board the Galactica who believed she was human until the first season finale. She had issues adjusting to this fact, but eventually sided with her people again, becoming first an anti-villain, then a full-on villain, and then a JerkassWoobie. Boomer (her callsign, and what the other Cylons kept calling her) was in love with Chief Galen Tyrol prior to her programming being activated. Athena, meanwhile, was a copy of Boomer who knew she was a Cylon and was sent to aid Karl "Helo" Agathon after he was trapped on Caprica, in an effort to get him to fall in love with her and thus see if humans and Cylons could procreate together. It turned out they could, but this duplicate of Boomer eventually sided with the humans both because she had genuinely fallen for Helo and because she wanted to keep her baby. After proving her loyalty to the humans, she was accepted as a member of the crew but decided to stop using the callsign "Boomer" because she did not see herself as the same person, so she chose "Athena". It doesn't stop casual viewers or bloggers writing about the show from believing that Sharon was once in love with Tyrol and is now married to Helo, or that she has "alternately" used the callsigns "Boomer" and "Athena", or other phrases that imply "Boomer" ''became'' "Athena'', when that simply never happened.

* Something somewhere on the net said that Richard Hatch played Lee Adama in the 70s ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' series. BUZZ! In the original series, the character had no name other than Apollo. Only in the reimagined series is his name Lee Adama with the callsign Apollo.

* An article in ''The Straits Times'' about the 2012 Fall television lineup mentions ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', giving the name of the main character as "Oliver Green". It's actually "Oliver ''Queen''".

** A voiceover for UK's Channel 4 described the plot of the episode "Infection" as "A virus spreads through the ship." Two small problems - no virus and no ship. (It was actually about an ancient McGuffin that turns someone into a rubber suit monster that menaces Babylon 5, which, again, is a space station, not a ship.)

** A voiceover for UK's Channel 4 described the plot of the episode "Infection" as "A virus spreads through the ship." Two small problems - no virus and no ship. (It was actually about an ancient McGuffin that turns someone into a rubber suit monster.)

** When [[Creator/NetworkTen Eleven]] began airing ''Deep Space Nine'' in early 2013, ''TV Week'' magazine printed a "[[https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/l/t1.0-9/541568_10200449066972058_110724177_n.jpg?oh=3163155acd404b6614a4d7feb61da564&oe=590692B7 cheat sheet]]" for the series, which not only used a cast photo from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', it claimed that ''TNG'' was set on board the USS ''Defiant''.

** Similarly, the ''SFX'' review of the novel ''Literature/Section31Rogue'' asks why writers keep making up new characters who were at the Academy with Picard. Not only are the two guest characters in the novel the same ones from the flashbacks in [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry
"Tapestry"]], but the novel continually refers to those events!

** Similarly, the ''SFX'' review of the novel ''Literature/Section31Rogue'' asks why writers keep making up new characters who were at the Academy with Picard. Not only are the two guest characters in the novel the same ones from the flashbacks in "Tapestry", but the novel continually refers to those events!

** [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/nyregion/24theatct.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesTheater This]] review of a production of ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'' starring Kate Mulgrew incorrectly stated that Mulgrew's ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' character, Kathryn Janeway, was "Elizabeth Janeway". JustForFun/{{Egregious}} for three reasons: 1) this is the friggin' ''New York Times'', 2) ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is incredibly well documented by fanboys and putting "Captain Janeway" in a search engine would have instantly brought up the correct name, and 3) Mulgrew is a prime example of TheDanza, and Janeway's first name is a homonym Mulgrew's full first name, Katherine.

** Taken to ridiculous levels with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-b22sqPZrA Engine-Oh G12]]. [[http://i.gizmodo.com/5147344/the-japanese-giant-robot-show-to-end-all-giant-robot-shows#c10548197 A]] [[http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2009/02/new-robot-anime-features-ultimate-12man-transformer.html couple]] [[http://theawesomer.com/video-engine-oh-g12/9503/ sites]] saw this clip from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' and thought it was a Transformers-ripoff series named "Engine-Oh G12". It took a ''lot'' of fan correction to get them to finally change their coverage. Not to mention the amount of comments talking about a ''Power Rangers'' ripoff -- one commenter says it wouldn't ever fly in America. [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Except one year later...]]

* The [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky One]] continuity announcer, introducing the ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' episode "American Dreamer", said "Supergirl is pretending to be a journalist called Kara so she can clear her name". "Pretending" isn't exactly the right word; Supergirl ''[[SecretIdentity is]]'' a journalist called Kara.
* It's not uncommon for a ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode description in the news to refer to the MonsterOfTheWeek as a "demon". Demons are only one specific type of creature in ''Supernatural'': they appear as black smoke when bodiless and they possess people, manifesting black eyes (occasionally red, white or yellow) when provoked. Monsters in general ≠ demons, unlike in, say, ''Buffy'' and ''Angel''.
** The ''[[https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Supernatural_Wiki Supernatural Wiki]]'' had episode 8 of Season Seven listed as "Time For A Wedding", under an editor's pet theory that the title "Season 7, Time for a Wedding!" was a typo in the CW press release. This is despite the fact that the title appears onscreen in the episode itself after the funny wedding cake animation is over, confirming it as the correct title. Attempts to point out the mistake were [[https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Time_For_A_Wedding met with hostility]].

* An infamous review of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' seemed to believe that Tyrion Lannister was a Tolkien-style dwarf, rather than a human with dwarfism.

** Many people proclaim that the show- and by extension, the [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire books]]- is a prime example of GreyAndGreyMorality. While there are certainly a lot of complex morally grey characters, quite a lot of the villains (Ramsay, for example) lack any redemptive traits, making it more BlackAndGrayMorality than anything else.

* On one episode of ''Creator/HamishAndAndy's Remembering Project'', the duo talk about an incident in 2014 where, while filling in for their station's regular drive-time hosts, they gave away tickets for a holiday in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}, which included being in the audience for an episode of their ''Gap Year South America'' show. According to the duo, the station was unaware that the show was actually being hosted from [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Buenos Aires]] and had confused the show's broadcast dates for the filming dates, so when the promotion ended, filming for the show had concluded. As a make-shift plan, they instead took 30 listeners who won tickets for a steak dinner in Chile while watching a ''Gap Year'' episode that was "being played off a laptop".

* On one episode of ''Creator/HamishAndAndy's Remembering Project'', the duo talk about an incident in 2014 where, while filling in for their station's regular drive-time hosts, they gave away tickets for a holiday in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}, which included being in the audience for an episode of their ''Gap Year South America'' show. According to the duo, the station was unaware that the show was actually being hosted from [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Buenos Aires]] and had confused the show's broadcast dates for the filming dates, so when the promotion ended, filming for the show had concluded. As a make-shift plan, the duo instead took 30 listeners who won tickets for a steak dinner in Chile while watching a ''Gap Year'' episode that was "being played off a laptop".

** When the series was about to gain corporate sponsorship in 1998, consumer advocate Ralph Nader urged parents to protest the sponsorship while claiming the show was "exploiting impressionable children". What he didn't know is that the sponsor promos on children's programming on PBS usually don't promote the product itself, instead promoting values of some sort. For example, the three Post Alpha-Bits sponsorship promos made for ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', instead of promoting the cereal, promote good things that the alphabet does. Also, [[http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9811/13/sesame.street/ a CNN article]] that mentions this makes it sound like the corporate sponsorship would be replacing the BroughtToYouByTheLetterS trope. In reality, the "sponsorship" by letters and numbers would continue until 2015.

** When the series was about to gain corporate sponsorship in 1998, consumer advocate Ralph Nader urged parents to protest the sponsorship while claiming the show was "exploiting impressionable children". What he didn't know is that the sponsor promos on children's programming on PBS usually don't promote the product itself, instead promoting values of some sort. For example, the three Post Alpha-Bits sponsorship promos made for ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', instead of promoting the cereal, promote good things that the alphabet does.