YESTERDAY, a news.com.au article incorrectly stated that the Star Trek starship USS Enterprise-E, otherwise known as model NNC-1701-E, was the successor to Captain Kirk's original USS Enterprise.

It has since been brought to our attention that the NNC-1701-E in fact came two models after Captain Kirk retired and was under the command of Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Read the original, poorly-researched article here

User "Your Mum's Lunch" led the charge of those who correctly pointed out that after losing the original Enterprise to the Klingons, Captain Kirk was given the Excelsior Class Enterprise-B as a stop-gap measure until the refit of the Enterprise-A was completed.

Once again, News Ltd's - news.com.au website is at it again. Its an article about one of its own articles! It may only be a "tech" story, but indeed, its a news article about one of the online news services own articles.

Of course it involves "Trekkies". Hence, it had to be run over two days with two different stories revolving around mistaken identity.

Since the second article, hoping to correct a mistake, would resolve the issue outlined in the reader comments, news.com.au will be disappointed. The second article itself incorrectly references some "trekkism" and one has to wonder if they will run a third article just as a matter of course.

Would they? No, surely not, well, maybe ;)

Sylvestor