12-13-2022, 04:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-14-2022, 01:03 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I suppose it depends on how much of a problem it is to travel through a nebula when there's nothing wrong with your starship. Maybe Spock was pointing out to Kirk that the nebula had become a strategic option because neither ship was operating at normal capability. And the fact that we never saw an immense nebula or heard them mention it on the approach to Regula suggests that it was either way too far away for them to have been able to reach it without warp drive or that it was not immense at all and was not even worth taking note of on their way in.
The Enterprise had a display on its screen that actually showed the relative locations of the two ships and the planet, yet Khan and his people can't find Enterprise until it leaves orbit. My take on this is that there must be some means of tracking a ship on the opposite side of a planet, maybe by measuring displacement of trace amounts of gas and/or dust in the space surrounding the planet, and Khan's people didn't read the chapter of the tech manuals that would have told them how to do it so it was only when Enterprise was picked up by Reliant's visual sensors (cameras) and displayed on the main bridge screen that they saw it.
In the modern surface navy, the time from rest to full GQ is usually five minutes or less. But the red alert sequence in STII never made any sense to me. They had already been attacked and knew their attacker was on the hunt for them; they should have been on continuous alert with everyone at station the whole time they were hiding from Reliant. And why do they have deck plates on the photon launcher that have to be manually raised to load the tubes???
The Enterprise had a display on its screen that actually showed the relative locations of the two ships and the planet, yet Khan and his people can't find Enterprise until it leaves orbit. My take on this is that there must be some means of tracking a ship on the opposite side of a planet, maybe by measuring displacement of trace amounts of gas and/or dust in the space surrounding the planet, and Khan's people didn't read the chapter of the tech manuals that would have told them how to do it so it was only when Enterprise was picked up by Reliant's visual sensors (cameras) and displayed on the main bridge screen that they saw it.
In the modern surface navy, the time from rest to full GQ is usually five minutes or less. But the red alert sequence in STII never made any sense to me. They had already been attacked and knew their attacker was on the hunt for them; they should have been on continuous alert with everyone at station the whole time they were hiding from Reliant. And why do they have deck plates on the photon launcher that have to be manually raised to load the tubes???