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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7440217" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I'll take a stab at answering these. ("From Hell's heart, I stab at these questions!")</p><p></p><p>1. I imagine the size of the starships is a factor. Unlike driving a car, where you can look out the windows in all direction by turning your head, any bulkhead "window" is only going to face one way; to look all around the starship, you need to run around the edge of the vessel, or have everyone on board stop what they're doing (as in leave their battle stations) to go look out the nearest window and let the bridge know if they see anything coming. And even then, the starships likely don't have windows facing "up" or "down" - their best bet might have been to send out some shuttlecrafts so their crews could try to "look in all directions" like you can do in a car (at least in a shuttlecraft you can look in three of six general directions).</p><p></p><p>2. I doubt Scotty played the bagpipes at Spock's formal request; it was likely just a showing of respect on Scotty's part. He'd likely do the same at any of the bridge crew's funerals.</p><p></p><p>3. This was no doubt the outer space equivalent of burial at sea. And, from a writing standpoint, if they didn't jettison Spock's body out a torpedo tube, he couldn't have been subsequently reborn in the next movie on the Genesis planet. (Um, spoilers?)</p><p></p><p>But if you're just picking nits for fun, some other questions might be:</p><p></p><p>4. How did Khan recognize Chekov (as he stated when they met at the beginning of the movie) when Chekov wasn't even part of the USS Enterprise crew at the time of "The Space Seed," the episode which introduced Khan and his genetic supermen?</p><p></p><p>5. Don't Kirk and Spock know that "homemade codes" are frowned upon when discussing classified information in the clear - such as their impromptu "hours seem like days" comment when discussing how long it will take to repair the Enterprise? And if Khan's so smart, why didn't he pick up on it?</p><p></p><p>I'm with you on "best Trek film," though. And by far.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p><p></p><p>P.S. - Oh, throwing a P.S. onto your post after asking us to answer? No fair!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7440217, member: 508"] I'll take a stab at answering these. ("From Hell's heart, I stab at these questions!") 1. I imagine the size of the starships is a factor. Unlike driving a car, where you can look out the windows in all direction by turning your head, any bulkhead "window" is only going to face one way; to look all around the starship, you need to run around the edge of the vessel, or have everyone on board stop what they're doing (as in leave their battle stations) to go look out the nearest window and let the bridge know if they see anything coming. And even then, the starships likely don't have windows facing "up" or "down" - their best bet might have been to send out some shuttlecrafts so their crews could try to "look in all directions" like you can do in a car (at least in a shuttlecraft you can look in three of six general directions). 2. I doubt Scotty played the bagpipes at Spock's formal request; it was likely just a showing of respect on Scotty's part. He'd likely do the same at any of the bridge crew's funerals. 3. This was no doubt the outer space equivalent of burial at sea. And, from a writing standpoint, if they didn't jettison Spock's body out a torpedo tube, he couldn't have been subsequently reborn in the next movie on the Genesis planet. (Um, spoilers?) But if you're just picking nits for fun, some other questions might be: 4. How did Khan recognize Chekov (as he stated when they met at the beginning of the movie) when Chekov wasn't even part of the USS Enterprise crew at the time of "The Space Seed," the episode which introduced Khan and his genetic supermen? 5. Don't Kirk and Spock know that "homemade codes" are frowned upon when discussing classified information in the clear - such as their impromptu "hours seem like days" comment when discussing how long it will take to repair the Enterprise? And if Khan's so smart, why didn't he pick up on it? I'm with you on "best Trek film," though. And by far. Johnathan P.S. - Oh, throwing a P.S. onto your post after asking us to answer? No fair! [/QUOTE]
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