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*** Kirk is one to talk, though. He's '''still''' thinking of space as an ocean -- just one with submarines. Once he has snuck around Khan, instead of just reorienting the Enterprise and shooting forward, he "[[Enemy Rising Behind|surfaces]]" back into his original plane to attack, sacrificing some of his surprise for [[Rule of Cool|no good reason]]!
*** More seriously, the nebula setting works into why things happen as they do: sensors don't work, so the only way for the ships to find each other is pretty much by looking out the windows, which changes which strategies are reasonable. The whole "Two dimensional thinking" thing probably only ''works'' because of the nebula: had Reliant's sensors been working, it wouldn't matter that Khan didn't think to look up or down: he could just ''ask the computer'' where the Enterprise was.
** Also from ''The Wrath of Khan'' but in a different... dimension ([[
** ''[[Star Trek]]'' had from the beginning drawn a historical line from the first marine ships of Terra's Age of Exploration to the ships and aircraft of the 20th century, from there to the first space flight vessels, and from there to the Federation spaceships. Just look at the opening credits of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''! Also frequently mentioned was the fact that the name ''Enterprise'' had a long tradition, being carried by sailing ships, a U.S. aircraft carrier, a U.S. space shuttle, and finally by the first (fictional) starship of Earth. Picard even had paintings of naval vessels in his room and in ''Star Trek: First Contact'' there was a whole wall full of little golden facsimiles of ships and aircraft named ''Enterprise'' in the Captain's Ready Room.
*** A ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel described Starfleet regulations as being "copied from old US naval regs". While this book isn't canon, it does suggest that Starfleet was consciously modeled on an oceanic navy.
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