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For the other series besides TOS, airdate order is just fine. But there are particular continuity problems with the unfortunate and seemingly-haphazard order in which NBC originally chose to air those episodes.
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Exactly. Apart from "Where No Man Has Gone Before", TOS can be shown in almost any order imaginable. There are, what, about 5 continuity references to previous episodes throughout the entire show?
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yes, but the uniforms change slightly, as do the haircuts and finishing details on the starship models.
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And when do the uniforms change? The only instances that come to mind are Uhura in gold, and Kirk's obsession with wearing his green-uniform during the middle of season 2. That can easily be mixed up, and Uhura wearing gold was pretty weird, anyway, and so can be filed away under "cock-up".
I suppose there's the fact that Sulu seems to be a botanist or something early on, but doesn't he jump to and from that job anyway in production and airing order?
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Agreed that the sets and uniforms and hairdos and whatnot shouldn't much affect the continuity of the episodes. There were no changes that would have "stuck" enough to merit "continuity status".
...Of course, one could keep track of the things McCoy scavenges from alien planets and adds to his laboratory. Or the constant redecorating Scotty seems to be obsessed with. But McCoy's kleptomania could be interspliced with bouts of conscience that cause him to return some of the objects before stealing them again. And Scotty could simply have different engine rooms for different days of week, each with a differently colored door.
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And the Romulans might have scanned NOMAD from long distance and decided to use it as the basis for their cloaking device.
Tholian ships are so stylish that private comapanies started making ships to look just like them, but with nacelles added. Someone at the plant read the tholian schematic wrong and designed te ship "backward".
Orions actually use photon torpedos as their spacecraft.
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