ST6: Chang & Valeris

[Timby]

^ Chang was Gorkon's chief of staff. Gorkon was in a meeting when the attack took place; why wasn't Chang there? Any decent CoS would be.

Maybe they were playing poker.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Occam's Razor would suggest Chang told his 2nd in command: "You stay here on the BoP and press that "Fire" button when I send the signal from K1, check?"

^ Chang was Gorkon's chief of staff. Gorkon was in a meeting when the attack took place; why wasn't Chang there? Any decent CoS would be.

There's nothing on the table to suggest a meeting. I figured they were just sitting around smoking Klingon Ganja saying "Wow, what a day..."

 

[JediKnightButler]

It's ironic that Klingons and Federation Members could work together to keep their fellow Klingons and Federation Members at each other's throats- and they very nearly got away with it-twice.

 

[Timo]

...If it weren't for those meddling vets and their Russian.

Incidentally, I think it was right for the movies to be honest about the Cold War roots of the Klingons. Star Trek is about showing human weaknesses through latex masks, and ST6 is the most blatant case of the Klingons simply being humans. Kirk fighting against abstract aliens would have little impact. Kirk fighting his mirror image is human.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[TheAlmanac]

What the commanders of the two legitimate starships would have chosen to do is thankfully a variable the conspirators don't have to take into account, thanks to having the game-deciding secret starship at their disposal. If the intent was to destroy at least one of the starships, Chang could do that and by the very act eliminate the evidence of how this happened.

Another thing working for the conspirators was that so many outcomes were satisfactory for them. Even when both ships did survive, there was enough evidence for propaganda and not enough for countering it.

It's not a particularly harebrained plot, or one that could backfire too badly even if something went horribly wrong. It's a rather plausible part of the movie, then.

Excellent points...

The conspiracy is even more of a Xanatos Gambit than I originally thought!

 

[Timo]

Well, if the goal is simply "making enemies and spreading discord", then shooting around with abandon and pointing fingers afterwards is pretty likely to work no matter what... It doesn't take a master planner carefully pondering all possible outcomes in his dark study!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Elder Knight]

^ Chang was Gorkon's chief of staff. Gorkon was in a meeting when the attack took place; why wasn't Chang there? Any decent CoS would be.

Maybe they were playing poker.

With red-hot pokers, I bet!

(Hey, Klingons are tough!)