I've always wondered why there was more damage on the Enterprise in Star Trek III than was shown in Star Trek II. Clearly, there's more damage shown in ST III where Khan & Reliant didn't even touch her so I'm wondering how that happened.
It's meant to be the same battle damage. Artistic license, like Kylo Ren's scar moving an inch between movies.
Amusingly, if the old DC Comics from that time positing a whole epic range of adventures taking place between II & III could be taken as canon (it isn’t), that’s explained by it being from an entirely different later incident, where a pon farr-maddened Saavik attacked the Enterprise with a small ship.
Pictures showing what differences are in mind would be nice.
DC Comics explanation works for me.
Forgetful ILM artists not working from accurate continuity polaroids.
Well, I'm thinking more tactically so let's break it down...
In the first battle, Khan raked Enterprise's portside, damaging engineering and a spot on the saucer (I suspect that had to be something to do with phaser power on the port side, which had been later restored). He did not hit the port nacelle at all (though, if he had, Enterprise would have been toast later on)...
In the chase to the nebula, Reliant fires a torpedo that made it to the starboard aft section of Enterprise's engineering hull. That hit didn't show later in the nebula but it did in ST III. That hit didn't apparently didn't affect Enterprise's fighting capability...
In the nebula fight, again, Khan hits Enterprise on her portside, only this time it took out the torpedo tube. Lucky there wasn't an armed / loaded torpedo there or Enterprise could have literally been blown in half...
Summary: Khan apparently concentrated on Enterprise's portside and still managed to hurt her quite badly. Yet, he never touched the port nacelle or the starboard side (save for that aft starboard torpedo).
I've talked to a major Trek guru about it and even he couldn't figure out, other than Nimoy wanted to show the Enterprise more hurt than Meyers had shown her in ST II. So I'm trying to wrap my head around where did that other damage come from? If we go on the premise that Enterprise had been nearly crippled by the end of ST II, wouldn't it stand to reason that the other starboard damage would have done her in (and only plot armor saving her)?
In the first battle, Khan raked Enterprise's portside, damaging engineering and a spot on the saucer (I suspect that had to be something to do with phaser power on the port side, which had been later restored). He did not hit the port nacelle at all (though, if he had, Enterprise would have been toast later on)...
In the chase to the nebula, Reliant fires a torpedo that made it to the starboard aft section of Enterprise's engineering hull. That hit didn't show later in the nebula but it did in ST III. That hit didn't apparently didn't affect Enterprise's fighting capability...
In the nebula fight, again, Khan hits Enterprise on her portside, only this time it took out the torpedo tube. Lucky there wasn't an armed / loaded torpedo there or Enterprise could have literally been blown in half...
Summary: Khan apparently concentrated on Enterprise's portside and still managed to hurt her quite badly. Yet, he never touched the port nacelle or the starboard side (save for that aft starboard torpedo).
I've talked to a major Trek guru about it and even he couldn't figure out, other than Nimoy wanted to show the Enterprise more hurt than Meyers had shown her in ST II. So I'm trying to wrap my head around where did that other damage come from? If we go on the premise that Enterprise had been nearly crippled by the end of ST II, wouldn't it stand to reason that the other starboard damage would have done her in (and only plot armor saving her)?
Not gonna be any pics?
