Jaw drops (Off-Topic)

by Quirel, Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:45 (3780 days ago) @ scarab

Scarab just said everything better than I could.

Spock tells Kirk how to defeat Khan - and the ploy was laughable - a superior intellect has problems with spacial reasoning?...

Khan's is not the only superior intellect that has problems with spacial reasoning.

Essentially, the Enterprise's maneuver boils down to diving and then resurfacing. Which not only places the Enterprise into the plane being searched by Khan, but presents them with a smaller target.

A more intelligent (And consistent with Spock's criticism of Khan's thinking) maneuver would be to match velocities with the Reliant from below (or above, relative to the Reliant) and then orient to fire.

after many years my memory is hazy but... Checkov said that Kahn put things in their ears to control their minds and nobody asked: are they still there? how did you resist? and Bones didn't immediately scan him with his medical tricorder.

Yeah, you remember correctly.

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