Re: Anton Yelchin (New Checkov) dead
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:03 pm
Pretty easy to do if you just say he got promoted. Say he got assigned to the USS Reliant.
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I didn't suggest you did, however, being promoted seems a little fast, especially as he's the historically been the lowest ranked of the main crew. I've grant you that that has been because he joined late compared with the rest, and that that didn't happen this time. So perhaps, but, it still seems odd that he be the first of them to be promoted when the rest will be ignored for a good while (if the films are to continue with the current crew anyway, which seems very likely).McAvoy wrote:Or that but since it seems this universe's timeframe for important events seems to be truncated, it is possible.
I also did not say he would be second in command just,said a throwaway line he would be on the Reliant which would be an Easter Egg.
There's any number of ways he could be killed, sure. But, I'm not overly keen to keep seeing them refer back to TOS episodes without showing anything of them. I'm not saying they should show things, but, you don't want to overuse the mechanism. Especially for something like killing off a 'main' character.Varthikes wrote:I was thinking maybe he could be on Cestus III, either on leave or temporarily re-assigned, when the Gorn attack.
It's positively sluggish by Kirk's standard of going from unemployed drunk to commanding the Enterprise in three yearsIanKennedy wrote:I didn't suggest you did, however, being promoted seems a little fast
You don't have to get promoted to be assigned to a new ship. Sometimes they just send you there because of manning issues.IanKennedy wrote:I didn't suggest you did, however, being promoted seems a little fast, especially as he's the historically been the lowest ranked of the main crew. I've grant you that that has been because he joined late compared with the rest, and that that didn't happen this time. So perhaps, but, it still seems odd that he be the first of them to be promoted when the rest will be ignored for a good while (if the films are to continue with the current crew anyway, which seems very likely).McAvoy wrote:Or that but since it seems this universe's timeframe for important events seems to be truncated, it is possible.
I also did not say he would be second in command just,said a throwaway line he would be on the Reliant which would be an Easter Egg.
Yes, but they're not going to start sending the rest of the cast off any time soon. (likely not anyway). So that leaves you wondering why Chekhov, the most junior of them all?Captain Seafort wrote:It's positively sluggish by Kirk's standard of going from unemployed drunk to commanding the Enterprise in three yearsIanKennedy wrote:I didn't suggest you did, however, being promoted seems a little fast
As you say, Trek does work that way...Graham Kennedy wrote:In real world Navies people transfer around all the time. Typically you'll only remain in a given post for a couple of years then move elsewhere. I'd find it completely believable that Chekov would go off to do some other job on a starbase or another ship somewhere. Hell, the unbelievable part would be that everybody else was still there!
Trek seems very different in that respect. In fact in Trek, officers in general seem to be incredibly unambitious. They stay in the same job for years on end, and the same rank often for decades. Real world militaries just don't work that way. IIRC, if you don't win promotion in the US after a few years at any given rank, you have to resign.