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Ok, first, if you haven't seen JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie, turn back now, there probably will be spoilers. I'll start the rest of this topic a number of lines down to hopefully save anyone who didn't want to be spoiled.
Ok, first, why am I posting this here? Simply put, I'm not active on any SciFi forums anymore and it's at least related to spaceflight and I just wanted to talk about this, so here we go.
If you're a fan of SFDebris, you probably heard him echo similar thoughts. To be clear, I had thought of this before seeing his review of the movie. The idea is simply this, instead of Kirk being promoted directly to Captain after his 3 years at the academy, we instead see him highly decorated for his actions, and commissioned as an Ensign while one of the characters stands behind him as the room applauds. The reason I put it this way is to imply that one of the major characters has requested he be assigned to their department or vice versa. Then, each promotion would come about a year after the last in a montage.
For this first one, I picked Sulu. When he's decorated and promoted again to Lieutenant Junior Grade, this time Chekov joins Sulu behind Kirk.
Then Uhura joins on promotion to Lieutenant.
Then Scotty joins the group on promotion to Lieutenant Commander.
Then McCoy joins when he's promoted to full Commander.
Then finally, when Kirk is promoted to Captain and takes command of the Enterprise, Spock joins the group as Kirk accepts him to the position of first officer, thus completing the group and beginning their odyssey.
What do y'all think?
Ok, first, why am I posting this here? Simply put, I'm not active on any SciFi forums anymore and it's at least related to spaceflight and I just wanted to talk about this, so here we go.
If you're a fan of SFDebris, you probably heard him echo similar thoughts. To be clear, I had thought of this before seeing his review of the movie. The idea is simply this, instead of Kirk being promoted directly to Captain after his 3 years at the academy, we instead see him highly decorated for his actions, and commissioned as an Ensign while one of the characters stands behind him as the room applauds. The reason I put it this way is to imply that one of the major characters has requested he be assigned to their department or vice versa. Then, each promotion would come about a year after the last in a montage.
For this first one, I picked Sulu. When he's decorated and promoted again to Lieutenant Junior Grade, this time Chekov joins Sulu behind Kirk.
Then Uhura joins on promotion to Lieutenant.
Then Scotty joins the group on promotion to Lieutenant Commander.
Then McCoy joins when he's promoted to full Commander.
Then finally, when Kirk is promoted to Captain and takes command of the Enterprise, Spock joins the group as Kirk accepts him to the position of first officer, thus completing the group and beginning their odyssey.
What do y'all think?