Potemkin_Prod wrote:
It's also bad writing. So how long would it take for the Enterprise to cross through the cloud to get to V'ger itself?
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As long as the director feels is justified in conveying the size & alienness of the environment.
Of course it took too long for many people's comfort; the editing foibles & schedule shortcomings have been discussed to death already.
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And why on Earth would Klingons attack a cloud?
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Because it is in their territory would be a pretty good start.
I've always had the same belief as
DS9Sega that since we a joining the action as Strafleet is first finding out what is going on (you know, not long before the cloud crosses into Federation space) that apparently a ton of shit went down as Vejur was "learning all that is learnable" from one end of the empire to the other.
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Of course you could try to rationalize that the poor ol' Klingons probably never realized how big the thing was...
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How could they
not?
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...but really, bad writing is bad writing.
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Or perhaps the writers didn't feel that the audience of 1979 would need every little answer spoonfed to them.
I know
I had no trouble ascribing motivation to the Klingons when the movie was released.