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** Starbase 54.
** The starbase from which Drakus appears to be directing the battle plans.
* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Due to a glitch with the uniforms, when the characters make certain motions, rank pips and combadges disappear.
** When the ''Fitzgerald'' finds the Romulan Warbird ''Vaxis'' adrift at the edge of the Neutral Zone, the crew reacts as if the ship has been savagely attacked...yet when we see it on the viewscreen, it looks like the only thing that's happened is that it lost power.
** In several exterior shots, the USS ''Fitzgerald'' has no visible registry number or name.
** When the ''Fitzgerald'' enters battle over New Romulus, the first shots of it firing the main disruptor canon show the energy beam appearing from a place we shouldn't be able to see from our vantage point.
** The surface texture of the New Romulan moon the ''Fitzgerald'' slingshots around changes several times, from a "splotchy" look to a more "striped" appearance similar to Jupiter.
** [[Word of God]] designates most of the asteroid field chase as one of these.
** When the ''Fitzgerald'' goes to red alert, one of the wall displays behind Reyf very clearly shows a schematic of the ''Enterprise''-E.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Unlike ''Specter'', this time the creator has no qualms about re-using footage. Early preview clips showed several exterior shots recycled from ''Specter''.
** Early on, the shots of the ships flying through spacedock are recreations of similar shots from the end of [[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]].
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* [[Understatement]]: Ronston: "It sounds like he's harboring something of a grudge." This, after Braiyon Garr explicitly said he has it in for the admiral.
* [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting]]: Every time we see Dr. Braiyon Garr on screen, the lighting somehow manages to turn blue. This is especially pronounced in his first appearance in Reyf's quarters.
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: The shots of the interior of Starbase 54's docking bay most definitely qualify, especially during the departure sequence.
** Those are nothing next to the battle sequences at New Romulus.
** How about the scene where the cloaking device fails and our heroes run for their lives ''through an asteroid field???''
** The flight through the minefield.
** Several scenes late in the movie feature genuine, honest-to-Prophets BATTLE SEQUENCES. Even though they are for the most part recreations (darned good ones) of shots from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', they're still nothing short of AWESOME.
*** Did we mention they were AWESOME?
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: Drakus has this. And because [[Power Makes Your Voice Deep]], his voice [[Evil Sounds Deep|is very deep]].
** And when he appears to Reyf as a hologram, Dr. Garr has a (slightly) less ominous version. {{spoiler|Guess why.}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Averted with what many viewers assumed was a throwaway line about Merv and Kendra Ronston being married, and now apparently divorced--it was assumed Merv had simply been "written out" and that would simply be that. Then, unexpectedly, he shows up late in the film, when Kendra calls him to try and smooth things over.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Commander Lesley Kal.
* [[You Have Failed Me...|"You have failed me for the last time!"]]: Drakus says this, word for word, after an aide fails to secure the destruction of our heroes. {{spoiler|Moments later, Drakus shoots him with a phaser set to maximum.}}
 
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