It was good scene. Pine delivered the line perfectly and the look on Chekov's face is priceless.
In STID, when Kirk told Chekov to "go put a red shirt on",...?
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Ha ha - yeah modern Trek is notorious for springing a new piece of back story on a main character so that they don't need to employ a guest actor. I recall one episode of Voyager where the geology team consisted of pilot Paris, engineer Kim, and Neelix because he'd been caving once.
I rather liked that TOS pigeon-holed its characters a bit more and brought in guests for expertise. Part of my problem is probably that they seem to be smearing Chekov right across the ship as a boy wonder because they can't decide what his niche should be. He is able to step in and be better at everything than the people who do those jobs all the time (e.g. transporters, engineering, I'm guessing brain surgery in the next one: "Brain, brain, vhat is brain?"). The same could be said to be true of TOS Chekov I suppose; he oscillated between navigation, science, and landing party punching bag and then in TMP was weirdly transferred to security despite being absolutely rubbish at it.
However, at least Geordi certainly displayed a lot of engineering skill in season one even if he was retro-fitted later.
Ha ha - yeah modern Trek is notorious for springing a new piece of back story on a main character so that they don't need to employ a guest actor. I recall one episode of Voyager where the geology team consisted of pilot Paris, engineer Kim, and Neelix because he'd been caving once.
I rather liked that TOS pigeon-holed its characters a bit more and brought in guests for expertise. Part of my problem is probably that they seem to be smearing Chekov right across the ship as a boy wonder because they can't decide what his niche should be. He is able to step in and be better at everything than the people who do those jobs all the time (e.g. transporters, engineering, I'm guessing brain surgery in the next one: "Brain, brain, vhat is brain?"). The same could be said to be true of TOS Chekov I suppose; he oscillated between navigation, science, and landing party punching bag and then in TMP was weirdly transferred to security despite being absolutely rubbish at it.
However, at least Geordi certainly displayed a lot of engineering skill in season one even if he was retro-fitted later.
I think you have summed up Chekovs character in a nutshell there. I particularly chuckled at your 'landing party punching bag' line. Add his injury in TMP to that last too. He got a seriously raw deal in three TOS movies didn't he?
I thought TWoK did a decent job of highlighting his pre-established strengths within the confines of its daft plot elements. However in STIV and STVI you can see why he made a terrible, terrible security officer. Actually, personality-wise Uhura would have made a better security officer if she'd only had some decent combat moves that didn't involve showing her skimpies quite so much. Being ship's telephonist was more important I guess.
It seems like Chekov was used a lot more in TOS and the movies than Sulu was. 
It seems like Chekov was used a lot more in TOS and the movies than Sulu was.
You're probably correct. Sulu hardly got any screen time in certainly the first five TOS movies did he?
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