Which aso fits the “Humans are SO special!” trope I mentioned earlier. Unlike other races, we are varied even within ourselves
I’m semi-serious. From a production standpoint, director Nicholas Meyer acknowledged it was a mistake to have Chekov and Khan recognize each other. Some fans refuse to accept this, yet they’ll maintain that the Klingons on TOS had forehead ridges all along, but you didn’t see them because they didn’t have a large enough makeup budget. And won’t ackowledge the explanation in ST:Enterprise (which is canon) for how they lost their ridges.
Canon is canon. It can be silly, but it’s still canon. 
That’s the joy of fandom of a franchise that is over 40 years old with hundreds of eps among several series and movies. Lots of different writers, producers, directors, actors, etc… With that much floating around, I can’t blame nitpickers (too much, anyways)
(I shoot Nikon)
Well, FWIW, it’s been standard Jewish theology for a few thousand years that people have two natures, good and bad, and they are both necessary. Without the good nature, no one would give to charity, or obey laws, but without the bad nature, no one would do things that are essentially selfish, like get married, have children, tend crops to make sure they have food, and soforth.
In the case of evil Kirk, it was extra eye liner and the proclivity to stand where he was lit from below.
Has Koenig ever said whether he brought this up during production? You would think he’d remember not working with Montalban.
Evil Kirk did, pretending to be Good Kirk. She evidently bought it well enough to set up another date with him. :eek:
And an ever-so-slight hunchback.
Does anyone think using the transporters as the thing that screwed Kirk up in the first place (and having it doom an animal first) was borrowed from The Fly?
No story exists in a vacuum. Lots of ideas go back and forth.
Watch. He was standing the midnight watch. **GRRRRRRRRRR!!! ** :mad:
I’m not sure if he had. I know DeForest Kelley did. Koenig later facetiously said that Chekov had kept Khan waiting to use a head. When Chekov emerged, Khan said, “I shall never forget you.”
Skald, I’m perfectly willing to accept that if it happened on film, it’s canon. Khan remembered Chekov in TWOK, so they did meet previously. And it’s canon that the Enterprise had a large enough crew that Chekov was on it, but working elsewhere on the ship. I’ll even postulate that he worked in the Sciences department where he caught the eye of Spock who noticed that Chekov might make a promising bridge officer and recommended him for promotion.
In the interests of peace, if you’ll give me your transporter coordinates and turn on your pad, I’ll send you a case of Romulan ale which I just happened to acquire through, ah, diplomatic channels. For a not so small gratuity, the Ferengi Grand Nagus personally presented me with some which he brought through in a diplomatic pouch, and as you know, under interstellar law, diplomatic packages are immune from a customs search.
Since “Space Seed” and “Catspaw” were only seven episodes apart (in order filmed; 1x24 and 2x1, respectively), I’ll buy that, but just barely.
Now gimme my Romulan ale! :dubious:
I don’t know about during production, but Memory Alpha says, “Koenig jokes that he believes Chekov accidentally made Khan wait an uncomfortable amount of time to use the bathroom.”
I’ll second-guess Meyer on this. Having the two recognize each other was good both in terms of drama and of advancing the plot. It was a good scene, and not actively contradicted by anything in canon that I know of. While Chekov does not appear onscreen until Catspaw, he is at that point on bridge rotation and comments that he’s “not that green”. I find it plausible that he had been on board long enough by then to have been present during Khan’s takeover*. Given that those events were kind of a big deal, even in the Enterprise’s crisis-ridden history, it’s hardly surprising that he would remember Khan and his ship. Even if he wouldn’t have recognized Khan’s face in a crowd, recognizing the name of the SS Botany Bay would have helped him make the connection.
For Khan’s part, he studied every scrap of information he could get on the Enterprise while planning his takeover. That likely included crew manifests. While Chekov probably didn’t stand out at the time, Khan’s memory capabilities are presumably enhanced; it’s possible that he remembers the face of everyone who was a member of the Enterprise crew at that time. Alternatively, he might have picked Chekov out as a weak link–the newest and least experienced member of the command staff, who might be subverted in some way.
*My best guess would be that he joined the crew during the events of “Court Martial”, which was the last time the Enterprise put in at a starbase before “Space Seed”. The Enterprise had lost several crew members at that point, and it seems reasonable that replacement personnel would have been transferred to the starbase to await the ship’s next visit. The events of “Space Seed” would have been the first major on-board incident he experienced (“Return of the Archons”
And a case of Romulan ale is also on its way to you for that excellent explanation. 
Only Janeway and Kes wanted them back. Even the Doctor refused to separate them, and it’s not like him to turn down a novel medical procedure.
On one hand, Janeway’s murder of Tuvix made me finally understand the people who thought she was evil. On the other hand, I kinda like that the episode went out of its way to tell us she was doing the wrong thing and then let her actually do it.
If they’d have just acknowledged how flawed Janeway was, the show would have been a lot better liked. (I still liked it, but I also absolutely love the 1998 Lost in Space movie.)
Don’t make me release the ferrets.