What happened to the rest of the original Botany Bay crew?
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^Not to correct a published author or anything, but I think you got the order of your J names confused in your first sentence.
Oops! Serves me right for not looking it up first! Let me fix that.
Thanks for the catch!
So, I think the biggest question remains unanswered here thus far... why WAS Khan wearing a modern Starfleet belt buckle?
To Reign in Hell has a good explanation for that, but I'll wait for clearance to spoil it. The book's a good read regardless.
...just edited a published writer. (does a happy dance)
And this is why we have copyeditors . . . .
Thanks again.
So, I think the biggest question remains unanswered here thus far... why WAS Khan wearing a modern Starfleet belt buckle?
How about...
it wasn't a "modern" belt buckle, it was a Starfleet insignia used for some other purpose among McGivers's possessions (after all, she had to pack to leave the ship).
^ Could be, but it looks remarkably identical to the belt buckle on the (then) new maroon uniforms.
Captain Terrell with the belt buckle visible:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/twokhd/twokhd0120.jpg
Khan on the Reliant:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/twokhd/twokhd0429.jpg
Now, granted, he could have taken the buckle from another officer's uniform, just as he apparently stole the jacket. But then why would it look worn and beat up?
Captain Terrell with the belt buckle visible:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/twokhd/twokhd0120.jpg
Khan on the Reliant:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/twokhd/twokhd0429.jpg
Now, granted, he could have taken the buckle from another officer's uniform, just as he apparently stole the jacket. But then why would it look worn and beat up?
Are those uniforms new?
After all, Kirk and friends in TOS were in the habit of wearing their colorful long-sleeved T-shirts most of the time, but they donned jackets when they wanted to be formal. And the ST2 wear looks pretty much like TOS wear plus jackets over the shirts... Perhaps TOS era clothing would already have included those maroon jackets, but Kirk never felt fit to use that particular style?
More generally, the delta symbol has been with Starfleet from its first days on, and apparently even longer than that (the old UESPA probe had it in VOY "Friendship One", for example). So I'm all for the theory that McGivers would have quite a few items that carried that exact style of delta, as well as items that carried the fancy banana symbol found on the ship's side pennants, plus items that carried the acute sideways delta of the Friendship 1 probe (later used in TNG designs), plus a few other variants we haven't even seen yet...
Timo Saloniemi
After all, Kirk and friends in TOS were in the habit of wearing their colorful long-sleeved T-shirts most of the time, but they donned jackets when they wanted to be formal. And the ST2 wear looks pretty much like TOS wear plus jackets over the shirts... Perhaps TOS era clothing would already have included those maroon jackets, but Kirk never felt fit to use that particular style?
More generally, the delta symbol has been with Starfleet from its first days on, and apparently even longer than that (the old UESPA probe had it in VOY "Friendship One", for example). So I'm all for the theory that McGivers would have quite a few items that carried that exact style of delta, as well as items that carried the fancy banana symbol found on the ship's side pennants, plus items that carried the acute sideways delta of the Friendship 1 probe (later used in TNG designs), plus a few other variants we haven't even seen yet...
Timo Saloniemi
The real life answer is, they screwed up. And have admitted as much.
