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Continuity: Numerous differences in the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), as director Stanley Kubrick deliberately had the models and sets destroyed.

Continuity: Near the end of the film, Dave asks HAL to point the AE35 antenna towards earth. HAL tells him that this will prevent him from communicating with the Leonov. The external shot which follows shows the AE35 moving, yet it starts off pointing downwards, not towards the Leonov.

Revealing mistakes: As the Leonov brakes around the dark side of Jupiter, the cable run used to pull the fireball past the camera is visible. Also, bits of flame can be seen to drop off the fireball as though pulled straight down to the bottom of the frame, when no such thing would happen.

Continuity: In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), HAL has flat display screens (note the pod bay interface); they are shown here as CRTs.

Revealing mistakes: Truly awful simulation of inflatable shields on the Leonov. The wadded-up bags used were of too small a scale and too rigid a material to convincingly represent objects that large.

Continuity: As Chandra is reactivating HAL, he pushes all but eight bricks in. HAL's voice goes out of control, and Chandra spins around to reset it. When he turns back, there are only four bricks left out of their slots.

Continuity: When Chandra is reactivating HAL, he types "continue" but the screen displays "tomorrow".

Continuity: As Dr. Chandra escapes from Discovery before the emergency burn at the end of the film, Discovery's windows are totally covered in red sulfur dust, though earlier and subsequent scenes show the windows as having been cleared off.

Errors in geography: At the beginning of the film, the graphics showing Dr. Floyd's report of the events in 2001 indicate that the TMA-1 monolith was discovered in the Sea of Tranquility. TMA-1 stood for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1 because the monolith was discovered in the crater Tycho. Tycho is several hundred miles southwest of the Sea of Tranquility.

Continuity: When Dr. Floyd is talking with Millson outside the White House, his legs are alternately crossed/uncrossed between shots.

Crew or equipment visible: When Curnow is first trying to enter Discovery, a shot shows the discovery is revolving around its axis vertically. A wire can be seen attached to the Discovery Dome.

Revealing mistakes: As Max's pod travels to the Monolith, in one shot, the Discovery, Leonov and the pod vanish from the scene, leaving only the Monolith, just before the cut. About 1:03.30 on the DVD.

Revealing mistakes: When Floyd describes how to use Discovery as a booster module for the Leonov, he uses a pair of pens floating in zero gravity as analogues of the two ships. However, Floyd and Kirbuk walk across the floor as if under standard Earth gravity.

Revealing mistakes: e2 Crewmembers walking around under gravity even when the Leonov's centrifuge is not spinning (while docked to the Discovery). Throughout the movie, the application of centrifugal gravity is inconsistently applied.

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Factual errors: The AE35 high-gain antenna would not be used for short distance ship-to-ship communications, and thus the antenna would not have to be "turned away" from the Leonov since it would have remained pointed at Earth. Short distance communications would be accomplished with other 2-way radios. This was demonstrated in "2001" when Dave retrieved the body of Poole, all the while talking to Hal, without moving the AE35 antenna.