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I can’t recall that ever being established. There were some protocols for local training in preparation for the Academy, along the lines of correspondence courses, but ultimately everybody went to Frisco, apparently.
They obviously had some way of getting over there, since Kirk tells Kahn to “prepare to be boarded” before the Genesis device was activated.
I’d be willing to bet that it was a shuttlecraft.
Could be, but after the Enterprise detects that the Genesis device has been activated, Kirk says, “We’ll beam aboard and stop it.” His son stops him and says “You can’t”. From the context, it’s obvious that his son was referring to stopping Genesis, not the beaming over.
True, but Kirk’s obviously not really thinking at that moment. All he knows is that some bad shit’s going down and they’re all going to die. Note, that his next action is to call Scotty and tell him that they need warp speed in three minutes or they’re all dead, completely forgetting that Scotty called up to the bridge a few minutes prior to this, to tell Kirk that he’s "got to take the mains off the line. There’s radiation. . . " Spock then bolts from the brigde to get down to engineering after Kirk’s call for warp speed, without bothering to tell Kirk where he’s going and why.
When you’re in a rush, the isn’t enough time to say “The needs of the many” and the writers wanted to save that line for later, when it had more emotional impact for the audience.
IIRC, after the incident in the wormhole, they decided that the all phaser power thru the warp engines might not be such a good idea after all…
Was there anything on-screen specifically establishing that the phasers-through-the-warp-drive business was actually changed? I don’t recall anything to that effect, and abesnt on-screen confirmation saying that it’s changed is fanwankery.
Of course there were no Q’s in star trek 2! Q and the other Q’s didn’t appear until “Encounter at farpoint!!”
(Ducks and scampers.)
After the wormhole incident in ST:TMP, Kirk tells somebody (Deckard?) to get on to installing a workaround for that. So at least it was discussed in a canonical source, if not actually completed in same.
I was watching Trek II using subtitles. They called her Mr. Saavik. Was this a gaffe or some Vulcan protocol?
Navy tradition. Even on the original series, a few female officers were addressed as “Mister” though the context wasn’t usually as serious.
Definition of Mister : “the informal or social title used in addressing a military warrant officer or any naval officer below the rank of commander.”
Any junior officer, male or female can be expected to be addressed as “mister”
Trelane.
I distinctly remember her being addressed as cadet at least once or twice and Memory-alpha, the Trek wiki, says “it is unclear exactly how Saavik was simultaneously a cadet and a lieutenant, altough it is possible she was a ‘graduate’ student taking command training” so it appears her rank is a well-established continuity error, oversight, or whatever.
Right. But your link says they graduate as Second Lieutenants or O1s and a Lieutenant (j.g) is an O2, the next higher pay grade.
Unless you subscribe to the fanon that Trelane, the Squire of Gothos, was a Q.
Well, in the specific movie we are talking about… After Reliants first attack… Warp and Impulse are down, yet Scotty still manages a “few shots” with the phasers…
That’s canonical enough for me right there.
Now that you mention it, the dialoge just before that goes:
Kirk: Scotty! What’s left?
Scotty: Just the batteries, sir.
Kirk: Have you got enough power for phasers?
Scotty: A few shots, sir!
Spock: Not enough against their shields.
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I think the Genesis device’s (GD) energies would’ve released had it been disintegrated, causing the Genesis Effect anyway.
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Well, #1 again. Also, destroying the ship wouldn’t necessarily destroy the GD. There’ve been many instances when recognizable debris was found in the rubble of a destroyed starship.
Whatever else may apply, this addresses the issue of why the Reliant wasn’t disintegrated by phasers. No way a “few shots” would’ve been enough to vaporize the entire mass of the ship.