Time apart makes things unfamiliar, that's all.
Spoilers Canon, Continuity, and Pike's Accident
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What??? TMP is the closest to TOS we ever got imo. McCoy,Kirk and Spock all gelled together pretty quickly by the middle of the film back into their familiar Rapport. They also all aged pretty well by this film and didn't look much different from their TOS days. Great film.
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McCoy is on point. Kirk spends a lot of the movie being petty, ill informed and incompetent. Spock has a lirpa stuck way up his keister and then gets "enlightened"
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The time frame feels insufficient for such.
They explain why the enterprise is different the whole first half of the movie. It was refit.
There has been at least 5 years after the 5 year mission. I have had friends that change literally in a year. Spock sheds himself of more emotion and then got a small reawakening. McCoy was McCoy, Scotty was Scotty and Kirk was a bit unsure of himself. This was not directly after TOS. So characters won't be exactly the same anymore.
But that doesn't mean two and half years since tos.
It would be the only reason to include the line. Kirk's all about getting back to the ship he left behind. It's like the theme of the whole film.
No way its only been 2 and a half years. In TWOK they mention 15 years since space seed. So twok takes place 10 years from tmp. No.
So, you're saying TMP is wrong? I thought all this classic Trek was perfect and irrefutable!!!
Why can't it take place 10 years after TMP?
So, you're saying TMP is wrong? I thought all this classic Trek was perfect and irrefutable!!!
Why can't it take place 10 years after TMP?
The actors have barely aged. The Enterprise is still basically the same. I find it hard to believe that tmp was two and a half years from tos and everything changed and everyone looks older by a decade. But tmp and twok are 10 years apart and only the uniforms changed. Too much of a stretch. From the original series to tmp it was 9 years. From tmp to twok it was about 4 years. From space seed to twok its 15 years. Easy as pumpkin pie.
So the Enterprise was to be retired only 4 years after an 18 month refit? Starfleet really needs to work on its resources management skills.
The dates given are the dates given. That's the canon and continuity. The ages of the actors or the sets don't really matter.
Yep.
After it was badly damaged it needed another refit.
No one knows exactly how many years between series and TMP. I'm sticking with 4-5 though.
Seems like it was on the chopping block before it left, being twenty years old and all. Making room for the next big thing. "The Great Experiment".
They gave us the number in TMP.
In Voyager, it is established that the five year mission ended in 2270. Per the Trek Chronology from the 90s, TMP takes place in 2272 and TWOK in 2285. Take the last two points as you will, of course. But if you are to believe that the end of the five year mission ended and Kirk was promoted (which makes sense), then the timeline works out.
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