why was ensign kim not promoted at all in 7 years?

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  1. teacake

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    I think you mean propaganda mistress.
     
  2. R. Star

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    Alright, but you have to wear a Queen Arachnia outfit.
     
  3. teacake

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    This is like the BEST JOB EVER!!!!
     
  4. Guy Gardener

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    Do we all get costumes?
     
  5. teacake

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    You can be the robot.
     
  6. Guy Gardener

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    Big shoes to fill.

    Literally.

    That was Tarik Ergin in there.
     
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    Timewalker Cat-lovin', Star Trekkin' Time Lady Premium Member

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    Two years in TOS. Absent from TAS. Shows up in TMP as a Lieutenant. His next two promotions must have come somewhat quicker, considering it's ~15 years between "Space Seed" and TWoK.
     
  8. Guy Gardener

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    Ans noncanon that he switched from navigation to security.

    That's a different command track.

    here's the really weird thing.

    His birthday moved 5 years because of the new timeline movie continuity.

    His parents may have used the same name, but genetically, that's a completely different person, a sibling to the guy from the TV show.
     
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    Maybe they had a Pavel embryo frozen years before and there is no genetic difference, only defrosting time differences in the two timelines.
     
  10. R. Star

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    Or maybe Abrams doesn't care at all about continuity. :p
     
  11. Guy Gardener

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    You have a first class mind.
     
  12. Timewalker

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    BS. He wasn't a navigator in TMP. That's what Ilia and Shatner's wife's character were doing. Chekov was the Security Officer; why else would it have been his responsibility to meet Spock's ship at the airlock?
     
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    The only way I can swallow Pavel being good at security is to think "Bester".
     
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    He was so creepycold as Bester... mind you, I never really appreciated the character until I read the trilogy of novels about Bester.

    Light-years better than the silly alien Oro he played in a couple of episodes of "Starlost" - complete with a gold lame jumpsuit for a costume! :guffaw:
     
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    Those were great books, but the Passing of the Techno Mages trilogy were the greatest books ever. Bester was much richer character than Pavel.
     
  16. Guy Gardener

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    That's nice. CANON!

    And now I know.

    I just remember some big deal being made during the hypothetical fourth season in some novels, about Chekov redefining is passions.
     
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    Glad I didn't read that one. Only thing more boring than the relationship crises in Treklit are the career crises. Though the frakking baby crises top all that by a mile.
     
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    I'm still waiting for the novel where the lizard babies grow up, start a Delta Quadrant Empire and try to destroy the Federation.

    Dang deadbeat parents. :p
     
  19. Guy Gardener

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    Lets be honest.

    The kids would have been raised in an arboretum.

    And when the Kazon took over the ship in Basics someone would have BBQed them.
     
  20. teacake

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    On their freshly reclaimed ship..

    Paris: What's that tasty smell in here?

    Janeway, deeply relieved: It's the smell of Freedom Mr. Paris, that's all you need to know.