Star Trek (Old & New) Continuity Conumdrums
POSTED BY: RocketJock
UPDATED: Thursday, May 21, 2009 06:29
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Actually, one niggling little detail of the movie bothers me.
Did or did not captain pike very specifically name KIRK to be his first officer, prior to leaving the ship ?
I do believe he did, didn't he ?
So why the fekk did Spock not follow the chain of command as presented to him by a superior officer ?
Seriously, that gave me a sense of WTF??!! for like, a half hour of the whole flick, I just couldn't wrap my brain around *everyone* pretending they hadn't heard that.
-F
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Actually, one niggling little detail of the movie bothers me.
Did or did not captain pike very specifically name KIRK to be his first officer, prior to leaving the ship ?
I do believe he did, didn't he ?
So why the fekk did Spock not follow the chain of command as presented to him by a superior officer ?
Seriously, that gave me a sense of WTF??!! for like, a half hour of the whole flick, I just couldn't wrap my brain around *everyone* pretending they hadn't heard that.
-F
As I recall, the significant dialogue as Pike was leaving the ship:
Kirk is First Officer.
Spock, you are now the Captain.
Spock, be careful with her, she is brand new.
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Not a problem between shows, but I was bothered when Spock leaves the bridge, giving Checkov the Con, in a hurry to get to the transporter room to save his parents on Vulcan. Then Checkov tinkers a bit, and something comes up where he knows how to effect the transportation of a moving object, so he leaves the bridge with somebody else in charge as he rushes to the Transporter Room, and effects the successful transportation of Kirk & Sulu. After all of this has transpired, suddenly Spock staunters into the Transporter Room and hops on a disk - WHAT? He took the scenic route while his parents are about to die? As Captain he couldn't get to the Transporter Room in less than 2-3 times as long as Chekov did? was that the Logical Route? That just seemed lame.
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