I was going to mention the Potemkin bit but cut it. Really wasn’t any use to add the ship in the episode and might have negated some questions if they’d omitted it. At best I’m imagining they were dealing with another emergency of their own.I gather that from the treknological point of view, there's nothing the transport could have done. Why wouldn't they already be at flank speed? We hear of no speed or power reserve, and the whole point here is to get the emergency medicine to Spock as fast as possible.
Yet one does wonder why the Huron needs to be involved here at all, when the Potemkin supposedly has greater capabilities and might complete the rendezvous faster (and would survive the Orions). At worst, she wastes four days in the maneuver - two going to Kirk's ship, two going back to her own business. And Kirk was intent on wasting that much of his own starship's precious time to save Spock. But we get the dialogue on the drug having been transferred to the Huron first, and the dialogue on "Now tell me, Bones, what is this disease all about?" second, suggesting the Potemkin made the drop really early on.
I guess I get the greatest kicks out of TAS episodes when they fail, that is, when the writers omit things or do things that require explanations and rationalizations and contradicting of the original misguided intent. I mean, I get that from all of Trek anyway - but TAS is especially accommodating in this respect.
Timo Saloniemi
Best case the Huron was at flank, but flank is an emergency speed I don’t know that they’d be at necessarily. Maybe at full, especially as they would have met 20+ hours before Spock was critical. And, again, Potemkin couldn’t be bothered.
And why was Spock working, using up all that oxygen he had left, when he should have been in his quarters resting or in sickbay in a medically-induced coma or something? That’s another thing I let go. Ditto Spock’s concern about the ship’s mission not being delayed...you don’t think it would have been if its first officer croaked and they needed to find another? But I get it, it’s a 30-minute animated series geared toward a younger audience, and we have an economy of time and attention to consider.
EDIT: Another positive was Arex. I loved seeing a non-humanoid, and a tripedal species at that. Stuff like this is what fewer budget constraints animation is for. I would have loved to see the Riker Titan crew from the novels come to life in an animated series.
