From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Star Trek (2009) Someone explain this to me?
"ToolPackinMama" wrote in message
news:j855sn$v3r$1@dont-email.me:
> PIKE: Without transporters, we can't beam off the ship, we can't assist
> Vulcan, we can't do our job. Mister Kirk, Mister Sulu, Engineer Olson,
> will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they
> lowered into the atmosphere that's scrambling our gear. You'll get
> inside. You'll disable it, then you'll beam back to the ship. Mister
> Spock, I'm leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have
> transport capabilities, communications back up, you'll contact
> Starfleet, report what the hell's going on here. And if all else fails,
> fall back, rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system. Kirk, I'm
> promoting you to first officer.
>
> KIRK: What?
>
> SPOCK: Captain, please, I apologize. The complexities of Human pranks
> escape me.
>
> PIKE: It's not a prank, Spock. And I'm not the Captain, you are. Let's go.
>
> ===
>
> That is the scene where Cadet Kirk, who is a stowaway that is not even
> supposed to be on the ship, is promoted to first officer of Pike's
> Enterprise. Kirk was called on the carpet for cheating on a test
> earlier the same day, which is why he was not even supposed to be on the
> ship... he was supposed to stay behind.
Because unlike the TV series, the writers had to get Kirk from "repeat
offender" in Iowa to captain of the Enterprise in one 2 1/2 hour movie.
There was no time for a richer backstory like Kirk serving on the
Farragut and the Republic, as was the case in TOS.
-- Steven L.
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