Further Thoughts on Star Trek

[jeriendhal]

As moonshadowed put it: "SQUEEEEEEE!"



It amuses me to no end that the surface of Vulcan was deliberately designed to resemble a gigantic version of Vasquez Rocks

Chekov = Wesley. Seriously, he's a genius level teenager with significantly impaired social skills. Except he's likeable.

Given what a pain in the ass it seems to be to lock onto people to transport, it's no wonder they used shuttles so much in this movie.

Uh, why was Sulu's spacesuit the only one that was, y'know, yellow?

How long was it between the Enterprise defeating Nero and Kirk being promoted to captain? jvowles and I figure about a month, given they had to dig Nero's drill bit out of San Francisco Bay.

Uhura must have playing seriously hard to get if Kirk couldn't even find out her first name for three frigging years.

On a related note, her and Spock necking in the turbolift does explain a lot about his worries about showing her favoritism. I'm guessing they were an item long before they both came aboard the Enterprise.

I still can't believe they didn't go the easy route and kill Pike. I was seriously expecting Kirk to find him with half his face fried off, like he appeared in "The Menagerie".

I'm sure West Point cadets were laughing themselves sick at the state of Uhura and the Orion cadet's quarters at the Academy.

Kirk making a pass at the nurse while he's half-conscious from McCoy's mickey made me laugh hard. The man never stops being a space horndog.

Did I miss something or was the dog Scotty disintegrated Captain Archer's mutt from ST: Enterprise?

Comments

[scarfman]

The three spacesuits were in the primary colors, so the audience could tell who was who no doubt. Of course the guy whose name you can't remember was in the red one, but I suppose it is a little problematic that the Asian guy was in the yellow one.

Why can't Kirk have been promoted before the drill was excavated? (Yeah it goes against all reason and procedure that he was given a ship before he even graduated. But you knew it was going to happen.)

I was expecting Pike to come out of it scarred too, but they did have him in a wheelchair at the end.

People say the subject of Scott's experiment can't have been Porthos who'd have to have been a century old or so, but I keep saying there's no telling what advances the future may hold for canine gerontology.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

It's not problematic at all: Sulu and Redshirt Olsen wore suits that matched their uniform colors. Kirk had to improvise, since he wasn't on the crew list and wouldn't have had a suit issued as part of the standards.

Kirk wouldn't have been promoted until these things occured:

1. Drill out of harbor -- because it wasn't visible in establishing shot.
2. Debriefings, inquiries, and so forth about the very unorthodox set of circumstances that led to Kirk's unauthorized presence on the ship and his promotions. At very least, McCoy had some explaining to do. Bureaucracy takes time.
3. Finish the issue of Kirk's Kobayashi Maru thing -- which is, at this point, clearly just a formality as he's justified his position on the issue.
4. Time for Pike to get medical and psychological care, for them to promote him, and for Pike to return to duty.
5. Time to find all the vulcans and find them a new place to live.

The earliest I'd guess would be one month -- assuming they were close enough to graduation for ship assignments to be organized, and that the Kobayashi is the equivalent of a final exam. More realistic would be three months, or even six months to a year. We simply aren't told, but personally I'm thinking a year.