Star Trek 3 pet peeve of mine.
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"My advice on making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try." --Captain Kathryn Janeway
His nephew. He saved him.Find me a relative of Kirk's who ain't dead
Possibly his dad and mom.
People die. Who is Kirk to play God and control the destiny of the galaxy, because his son died? Changing the past for personal gain is not in character for Kirk. They only did it in the following movie because the Earth was at stake.
Kirk is clearly not God. Because, as we all know, God has no need for a starship.
We all know that wasn't God in ST5. What was he supposed to be anyway? Was whatever that was ever revisited in a series, film, novels, comics, anything? My take: if it's God, he wouldn't be "trapped" to begin with.
Shatner originally want the story to be about the real God and the devil. But Paramount wasn't going to allow him to do that. He maintains, to this day, that accepting the change to it being an alien pretending to be God significantly weakened the film. I've never heard anyone other than Shatner, though, agree with him. I just don't see how that could have worked as a Star Trek story.
I don't even know how this would work as any kind of sci-fi movie. How do you have "the" all-powerful God of all creation "trapped" on planet rainbow?
I don't even know why he bothered, considering that the studio rejected Roddenberry's somewhat similar God Thing concept a more than a decade earlier. And here is some correspondence from Roddenberry regarding TFF:
Mission Log: Discovered Documents
www.missionlogpodcast.com
Spock himself said at the end of the Naked Time: "Since the formula worked, we can go back in time, to any planet, any era."
For now anyway. That doesn't mean what it once did (if it ever really applied to Star Trek - Paramount never really cared as much as say, Lucasfilm as the novels and comics showed despite DC's somehwat convoluted attempts to get back on track - I say that with fond memories of Kirk and company in command of Excelsior after TSFS and before TVH)
It can change not only with the same show based on plot convenience but also with the next show / show runner.
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I haven't seen "Search for Spock" in years, but why couldn't they have just resurrected David Marcus with the resurrection planet that they just used to bring back Spock?
It exploded.
Though it's an interesting question. If the planet hadn't exploded, would the people who died on Planet Genesis have eventually been resurrected by the terraforming effect like Spock was, or had that already dissipated?
Though it's an interesting question. If the planet hadn't exploded, would the people who died on Planet Genesis have eventually been resurrected by the terraforming effect like Spock was, or had that already dissipated?
Spock was tied to the planet in some way, possibly due to being on it so soon after detonation.
I guess it could also have to do with Spock's katra being stored in McCoy. If only Saavik had been able to meld with David right before his death.
The katra is another issue, as McCoy had all of Spock's marbles. It was almost like the Spock on the planet was a new person created from Spock's atoms, using his DNA as a template.
That's exactly what he was. If Spock's adult body had been healed, that would be different, but the planet grew a new one from raw material. He was a mostly empty shell, with just a day or so of memories.
So where is his adult body then? When they launched the photon torpedo casket, the body of adult Spock was present. Yet, when the torpedo case is opened, it is empty and we go on to find little kid Spock. Where did his adult body go?
I assume it turned into a formless lump of stem cells which was the raw material to quickly grow baby Spock. Then the Genesis energy field provides his body with the energy needed to grow, no food needed. The big microbes probably ate anything left over. We really aren't supposed to think about it this hard, the idea starts to fall apart.
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