Where No Man Has Gone Before

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Delta Vega" could simply be a code name that the Federation assigns to planets as it sees fit. That wasn't a big deal for me.

 

[Captain Robert April]

So, by that logic, the planet with the lithium cracking station waaaaay out near the galactic edge is named something like Gamma Vega in the JJverse. Sound about right?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Very possible.

 

[Procutus]

Of course its contrived and its deliberate because of audience expectation. The general audience doesn't care that Chekov didn't appear until the second season or that Uhura and McCoy weren't in the second pilot. They know that Sulu is the helmsman and not a physicist. A movie featuring Dr Piper, Comm Officer Alden and helmsman Kelso is not going to meet audience expectations and the writers knew that.

Absolutely true, it's an unfortunate fact of modern film-making, to be sure. And I'm not saying that the Abramsverse movie is bad; it just isn't the Trek I grew up with and have loved all these years. It was entertaining if not completely satisfying.

It's just a shame that we couldn't have gotten a movie that was a true beginning to TOS that acknowledged the backgrounds of the characters we knew.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The general audience doesn't care that Chekov didn't appear until the second season

I know this isn't what you intended to argue about, or didn't know and acknowledge already; I'll just butt in and say that it's quite easy and natural to think Chekov was aboard for longer than that. It's not that he'd actually display real greenhorn symptoms in his inaugural "Catspaw" - indeed, he explicitly says he's not that wet behind the ears. This may be his first bridge stint, or perhaps his return to that position after a long absence, but it doesn't look or sound like his first-ever week on a starship. Or even on the Enterprise specifically, for that matter.

I kind of alluded to that. I was thinking more along the lines of fanboy minutiae that most people don't know or care about.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Of course its contrived and its deliberate because of audience expectation. The general audience doesn't care that Chekov didn't appear until the second season or that Uhura and McCoy weren't in the second pilot. They know that Sulu is the helmsman and not a physicist. A movie featuring Dr Piper, Comm Officer Alden and helmsman Kelso is not going to meet audience expectations and the writers knew that.

Absolutely true, it's an unfortunate fact of modern film-making, to be sure. And I'm not saying that the Abramsverse movie is bad; it just isn't the Trek I grew up with and have loved all these years. It was entertaining if not completely satisfying.

It's just a shame that we couldn't have gotten a movie that was a true beginning to TOS that acknowledged the backgrounds of the characters we knew.

I dunno, it's a bit like making a Superman movie with Kal-L, the Daily Star and a redheaded Luthor. The myths have evolved.

 

[Procutus]

^

Yeah... I reckon so.