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^ But wasn't its first mission shown in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier?
Canon? Yes. But there was a couple of years between Star Trek IV and Star Trek V being produced. So I thought Pocket may have slipped one in there during that time.
^ Oh, right, gotcha now. But I don't know of any such books. Sorry!
I think the first version of Probe (Music of the Spheres, available free online) took place immediately after the end of STIV. The rewritten version bumps events to post-STV.
Scotty's dialogue in STV indicates a breakdown immediately after STIV ("'Let's see what she's got' said the Captain, and then we found out, didn't we?") and thus a much shorter span between IV and V than than in the ST Chronology.
Scotty's dialogue in STV indicates a breakdown immediately after STIV ("'Let's see what she's got' said the Captain, and then we found out, didn't we?") and thus a much shorter span between IV and V than than in the ST Chronology.
No, that doesn't suggest immediacy unless you take it very literally.
According to Harve Bennett, there was a 6-month shakedown cruise between TVH & TFF. So they "found out" over the course of that shakedown that the ship had extensive faults, rather than the "finding out" being a single event.
Yes.
Not only just that one particular story (DC #37, Vol.1), but pretty much the entire remaining run of that series (prior to the 1989 relaunch) takes place between TVH and TFF (#37, #39-55), likely throughout the rest of 2286. That specific issue is simply the most immediate, post-Spacedock story following the ending of the film.
From the relaunch (where the series is renumbered from issue #1), the storylines pick up right after the events of The Final Frontier in 2287, leading up close to the time period of The Undiscovered Country.
Also, regarding the notion of an extended shakedown cruise for a Starfleet vessel, there's canonical evidence of it in other filmic sources -- most notably Star Trek: First Contact, where it's directly mentioned in the opening briefing-room scene (Dr. Crusher: "Does Starfleet feel we need more shakedown-time?" Geordi: "Captain, we've been out in space for over a year now. We're ready. The Enterprise-E is the most advanced starship in the fleet," etc.).
A casual viewer taking both TVH and TFF strictly at face-value will probably assume an immediate return to Spacedock between films (as, to be honest, ST V sort of suggests in the broader strokes), but Scotty's, "And then we found out, didn't we?" dialogue can easily be applied to a nearly-year-long shakedown voyage as to one lasting only a few weeks.
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Although even that problem could still be chalked up to a major glitch picked up at some point during that year-long shakedown cruise -- possibly a computer virus, a routine systems-maintenace artifact that somehow went haywire, etc. As we saw on pretty much all of the TV series, starships field-glitched on a regular basis far from port, often from very mundane, unexpected causes.
(That said, yep...I could easily see a Captain's Head door-malfunction being the final straw which results in Kirk issuing a, "Hard a-port, back to Spacedock!!"-sort of order.
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(That said, yep...I could easily see a Captain's Head door-malfunction being the final straw which results in Kirk issuing a, "Hard a-port, back to Spacedock!!"-sort of order.
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Then again, maybe Scotty was just being facetious. I'm sure he was frustrated at the systems breakdowns, but a line like "Half the doors won't open!" can just as well be a spontaneous utterance that isn't meant to be taken literally.
^We see the doors malfunction when Kirk gets to the bridge. He meant it literally.
Although even that problem could still be chalked up to a major glitch picked up at some point during that year-long shakedown cruise -- possibly a computer virus, a routine systems-maintenace artifact that somehow went haywire, etc. As we saw on pretty much all of the TV series, starships field-glitched on a regular basis far from port, often from very mundane, unexpected causes.
(That said, yep...I could easily see a Captain's Head door-malfunction being the final straw which results in Kirk issuing a, "Hard a-port, back to Spacedock!!"-sort of order.
Now I've got a mental image of Scotty doing a service-pack update to the ship's OS and getting a bluescreen of death.
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