01-17-2023, 09:09 AM
I remember the part where Chekov saw the strap. It was an "Uh-oh" moment.
I always liked to think Kirk gave Khan the Botany Bay to use as shelter, in pieces of course. When I think about the scope of such an action, it seems impossible to me. The Enterprise was not fitted with the kind of equipment that could slice a ship into pieces. Even if it could, there was no grappling hook apparatus (hope these terms are correct) that could grab pieces of the ship for transport them to planet surface. Then what? Khan had men, but even with their combined strength, I find it impossible that they could take the ship and put it together into some kind of shelter without assistance.
So let's say Kirk used cargo containers, no doubt filled with survival elements and food. Khan came from the 21st century. His life was not the same as someone who was on the Botany Bay and ended up taming a continent (I don't know much about the Botany Bay, but I read somewhere that the men who were aboard it did not conquer a continent). I don't see how genetic enhancement is going to be much help in survival on a planet that Spock termed as inhabitable, but savage and somewhat inhospitable.
It seems Kirk left Khan to his own devices, because he could, and didn't petition the Federation to ensure these people were looked after, in case the planet was too much for them.
I always liked to think Kirk gave Khan the Botany Bay to use as shelter, in pieces of course. When I think about the scope of such an action, it seems impossible to me. The Enterprise was not fitted with the kind of equipment that could slice a ship into pieces. Even if it could, there was no grappling hook apparatus (hope these terms are correct) that could grab pieces of the ship for transport them to planet surface. Then what? Khan had men, but even with their combined strength, I find it impossible that they could take the ship and put it together into some kind of shelter without assistance.
So let's say Kirk used cargo containers, no doubt filled with survival elements and food. Khan came from the 21st century. His life was not the same as someone who was on the Botany Bay and ended up taming a continent (I don't know much about the Botany Bay, but I read somewhere that the men who were aboard it did not conquer a continent). I don't see how genetic enhancement is going to be much help in survival on a planet that Spock termed as inhabitable, but savage and somewhat inhospitable.
It seems Kirk left Khan to his own devices, because he could, and didn't petition the Federation to ensure these people were looked after, in case the planet was too much for them.
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