A note from Mike Okuda, Denise Okuda and Dave Rossi:

A friend was kind enough to e-mail us a note about the editorial error in last weekend’s airing of the Star Trek: Remastered version of “Mirror, Mirror.” It seems that somehow, a warp flyby shot was inserted into the episode, when the ship should have been orbiting the Halkan planet.

This may seem minor to some, but as many fans online have observed, the shot in question was a dumb mistake, one that we should not have made. We all do know the difference between warp speed and orbiting a planet. We won’t bore you with the details of how we all turned blind and how we all failed to catch the slip-up, but we will tell you that we are taking steps to reduce the chances of it happening again. (We’d love to say it will never happen, but that’s a dangerous promise to make, especially when human beings are involved).

Fortunately, as soon as folks here became aware of the mistake, everyone jumped into action. A revised version is being prepared and will be used in future syndicated airings of Star Trek: Remastered. Believe it or not, this is a fairly time-consuming and expensive process because of all of the different versions of the show that have to be re-edited and replaced. Still, we think it is a measure of CBS Paramount’s respect for Star Trek that no one has questioned the need for the fix or complained about the costs involved. The correction will happen this week, although at least some stations will probably air the uncorrected version this weekend.

We apologize to all of the fans who caught our mistake, and we thank everyone for your interest in Star Trek: Remastered. We love Star Trek, too, and we hope you keep watching!

Best,

— Mike Okuda
— Dave Rossi
— Denise Okuda

ST.com Editor’s note: For this syndication master, the shot in question was inserted soon after Kirk’s confrontation with Chekov in the corridor. In the original full-length version, as you can see on DVD, the corridor scene simply dissolved into Kirk’s Quarters, with no transitional ship shot. In the syndicated version that just aired, the intent was to edit out the first couple of minutes of the Kirk’s Quarters scene to eliminate some redundant dialogue, and use a ship shot as a transition to cover this edit. Thanks to the Okudas and the Rossi for clarifying this to us and the fans. They are forgiven!

Source: StarTrek.com