Star Trek was one of the most popular TV series of the '60s and has turned into one of the biggest, most well-known brands on Earth. After the series' end at its third season came a few different movies, a couple different spin-off shows, and not to mention the reboot movies and new TV show. It may be 50 years and two Kirks later, but Star Trek fans show no signs of letting the show go that easily. Like Star Wars, it has remained a household name and has had at least three generations of fans. Maybe it's due to good writing and loveable characters, or we as a society just really love space! Either way, we're pretty sure Star Trek is here to stay.

One thing that's really hard to not do is make some mistakes. Sure, it's not really acceptable in film & TV, but when the plot, characters, and lore go this deep, it's hard not to make some repeats or go against what the rules were twenty years ago. We have to accept Star Trek is going to have some mistakes as it spans half a century. Seriously, no one working on any of these movies/shows could possibly remember every single scrap of knowledge about the Star Trek universe. That's why in this list we will be discussing the top 25 glaring problems with Star Trek that fans don't know about, or just won't admit. Even though these problems and issues are real we'll be forgiving them entirely as there is so much lore to remember, and we simply love Star Trek.

25 Star Trek: Beyond's Villain ♛

While most of us can agree that the Star Trek reboot movies were better then we expected (well, the first one anyway), the third installment of the franchise had some issues. Star Trek: Beyond was released in 2016 ꦉand was greatly anticipated by f🧸ans.

While the movie was pretty good and the makeup was amazing, one th♋ing just didn't ma﷽ke sense. The main villain of the film, Krall, really has for being a villain. He kind of just hates the Federation to hate it. As a former captain, maybe he just holds a grudge?

24 🍰How Kirk Becameꦕ Captain

In the original series, Kirk was brought in on the second episode, taking over for Captain Christopher Pike. Makes sense, right? Well, the new movies don't really . James 🧸T. Kirk is a bad boy who happens to fall nearly onto an older Captain Pike, who offers him a position at the academy.

Two short years later, Kirk becomes Captain of the Enterprise without even graduating, or training properly like everyone else.

His confidence and genius k꧃ind of just get him there. Something we found interesting was 🦂Chris Pine plays the role of Kirk who's father figure is Chris Pike... we've come full circle here.

23 𒊎 All Of Khan's Powers 🅘

According to both versions where shows up (should we still call it a spoiler?) he's this unstoppable, inhuman, extreme species. He's powerful beyond anything a normal human can be, and yet it still seems 🎃unrealistic꧟. When Khan shows up in the original series, Kirk has a tough time fighting him but easily wins.

It's the same in the second installation of the reboot movies Star Trek: Into Darkness, Khan is eventually defeated. Whe🌠n you create a character who is supp𒅌osed to be the most powerful being in the universe, it just doesn't make sense for him to go down so easily.

22 🐟 Geordi's Traveling Unif😼orm

If you're not familiar with Geordi, he is a character in one of the popular Star Trek spin-off shows, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Like we said at the start of this article, there's a lot to remember during  of ST, so we understand slip-ups. In an episode of TNG, there's a different reality than normal.

It's like we get to see a different universe, where the Klingon War had never ended. O𒐪ne thing was the Star Fleet u🔯niform. Naturally, everything gets resolved and we go back to normal, but Geordi's uniform was still that of the other universe. A mistake, or did the wrong Geordi come back...?

21 🌠 Miles O'Brie🔥n Is Talented

Miles O'Brien is a character that was able to appear on two different Star Trek shows, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. He's a main cast member on Deep Space Nine, but a lot of fans think he wasn't mean꧑t to be, which is why his character is .

We get moving up in rank is something most officers go through, but Miles has been Ensign, Chief, Lieutenant, Chief of Operations, and a few more titles. He has also had different uniforms he wasn't supposed to be wearing and missed his Insignia a lot. So either Miles is the moꦕst scattered person alive, or the writers sloppily threw his character together.

20 🌌 Kirk Being Reprimand🌱ed

At the start of Star Trek: Into Darkness Kirk is from being Captain of the Enterprise because he breached protocol. If you hadn't seen the first film, basically every single one of Kirk's d🐬ecisions as Captain is a breach of protoco🌼l.

We're not sure if it was supposed to show Kirk isn't as unꦗtouchable as he thinks he is, or everyone🍨 in power has amnesia and forgot all the awards they gave him in the last film. Either way, naturally Kirk resumes power a short while later.

19 🍸 Stay Away, William Shatner

William Shatner already goes down in history as one of the most known actors of all time. He brought one of the most loved characters in pop culture alive, and Sh♔atner's Kirk still holds up as an all-around good guy today. While a lot of fans laugh at some of the terrible acting in the original series, it's loved.

The same is not said for William Shatner's directing. If you didn't realize, he directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Some could go as far as to say this film was more like Shatner's OOC (out of character) fan-fiction. A lot of the film is set in relaxing parks, c🍰amping and Kirk is friends with Klin💜gons. In the next film, he hates them again? There's just a lot to unpack here...

18 Klingon Continui🎀ty Errors 🌃

One thing that's been consistent in the Star Trek lore is how different the Klingons are in each version. We're not sure why since basically everything else has been able to stay the same. Do the writers/makeup j𒊎ust not care that much for Klingons or is it to make them scarier? We're not sure.

From first seeing them in the original series to Next Generation to the most recent Discovery, the Klingon appearance has changed a lot. They started off with smooth foreheads and then out of nowhere their famous forehead bumps were created. Apparently, lazy writing said cha🌄nged the forehead. We'll just have to🐓 leave it at that.

17 Beastie 🥂Boys

We never thought we'd have to talk about the Beastie Boys in the same conversation as Star Trek, but here we are. In Star Trek: Beyond, Beastie Boys music is pla💖yed for the crew to lis♍ten to and is actually part of the plot.

What makes this weird and a time paradox is, the Beastie Boys song Intergalactic mentions Spock.

This makes no sense in the Star Trek universe as it is hundreds of years after the Beastie Boys existed, so how could they mention Spock? In reality, it's just that they wanted cool music and didn't look deep enough into it to realize. It is really a minor mistake, but from the ST point of view, there's a lot of questions to be brought up onc🍬e Kirk listens to that s💮ong.

16 𝓡 Spock's Changing Emotions

Spock is the Vulcan everyone loves. Being half Vulcan and half human means Spock can choose whether he wants to feel emotion and live like normal humans, or be devoid of feelings and live solely b♔y logic like normal Vulcans do. From the original series toꦯ the new reboot movies, we constantly see Spock .

Spock, canonically, has a lot of different girlfriends and is being introduced to the concept of love. Apparentl🎶y, he finds this difficult and chooses to remain more Vulcan, but then goes and tries to sacrifice himself for his friends a few times. Also, since he's half human, shouldn't he be able to understand emotion anyway?