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Kirk would probalby also have been familiar with Esteban, since he seemed to know pretty much every high-ranking officer he came across in the other movies or TOS. A use of two torpedoes for bluff would definitely have made the Esteban we saw shake in his pants, if he was outside direct comm range of his superiors. And he seemed to be, since we saw no indication he was ever informed of the Enterprise hijacking (although this depends on the exact chronology of things - we can't say for sure if he was killed before or after the hijacking), nor that he practiced two-way communications.
One wonders who climbed down to manually remove the protective grilles from over the torpedo track, though.
In any case, Kirk and pals possibly had days (or even weeks) of time aboard the ship for hatching all sorts of contingency plans before reaching Genesis. There was no direct indication that the trip was a quick one - sure, the heroes never changed their clothes, but apparently they didn't *bring* other clothing with them. 23rd century clothing might not require frequent washing...
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I don't have a hard time believing that a bunch of 40+ year old bacherlors would travel somewhere without a change of clothes. I mean, why should they care?
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As I was writing that part of my mind was saying "Don't forget to mention Sulu as a possible exception," but that part was apparently distracted while I hit the submit reply button.
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Maybe they all DID have a change of outfits. But, by an amazing coincidence, the clothes they were wearing when they finally arraived at Genesis just happened to be the same ones they'd started out in.
And again, by an amazing coincidence, they just happened to be wearing the same clothes again, three months later, when they were about to take the BOP back to Earth.
Tsk, they only wore those clothes three times in a few months, and we just happened to be watching them at that point. Poor lads.
And Sulu probably didn't want to change out of his snazzy outfit. I imagine he walked around the deserted Enterprise pretending to be a mad cross between Batman and Zorro.
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On March 6, TIMO said: ---------------------------------- Now, what Khan repaired was auxiliary power. That doesn't give warp speed, so one might say the nacelles of the Reliant weren't even energized when Kirk hit the port one. ----------------------------------
Thank you. Your assessment makes a lot of sense and resolves my conflict of many years over this issue.
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Surely "Lots of Laughs" is even better than just "laugh(ing) out Loud"?
So nyah to you, Mr Blue Car Carrier.
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Brief thought on the antimatter dilemma aboard the Enterprise. If the common assumption that 1 gram of antimatter is enough to launch a shuttle into space is true, then regardless of how empty the bottles were, wouldn't there still be a really gigantic explosion?
Say there were two grams left in the bottles, ( and I seriously think it was much more than that even if they did partially drain them), would that not still be enough to detonate a portion of the secondary hull when containment failed? If this is true, then the bottles MUST have been ejected or the antimatter dumped before the Enterprise self-destructed, as we saw no such explosion.
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Well, in the Trek universe antimatter just isn't played out to be as powerful as it really is in real life. If it was, then don't you think that all the battles that we've had just one torpedo would be enough to destroy an entire ship. Just think of the battle in ST6 between Chang and Kirk. One of Chang's torpedos went straight through the saucer of the Enterprise. If it was real, the Enterprise would have been destroyed completely at that point.
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