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* At the start of Star Trek 3, Kirk finds out that McCoy has [[Brain In a Jar|Spock's Brain ]] in his head and they need to do something about it. But crucially '''he has no idea that Spock's body has been 'resurected' on Genesis''', and neither does Sarek or anyone else. As far as they know the body was incinerated when they [[Meaningful Funeral|fired it off inside a torpedo]] and there is nothing left, Saavik was surprised to find it was intact on the surface and later on Kirk was certainly surprised to find that [[First Law of Resurrection|Spock was alive]]. So why do they feel the need to steal the Enterprise and travel to Genesis? If you forget about the Klingons, the Grissom, [[Mate or Die|Spock boffing Saavik]] and all that other stuff that '''they don't know is happening''', [[So What Do We Do Now?|what were they planning to do when they arrived?]] The most sensible thing to do, given the information they have available, is to get a few tickets on a commercial trip to Vulcan so someone can extract that annoying Katra and let McCoy get back to being grumpy. There is no reason to even consider going to Genesis, well except that [[Just Eat Gilligan|the film would be pretty brief without it]]. |
* At the start of Star Trek 3, Kirk finds out that McCoy has [[Brain In a Jar|Spock's Brain ]] in his head and they need to do something about it. But crucially '''he has no idea that Spock's body has been 'resurected' on Genesis''', and neither does Sarek or anyone else. As far as they know the body was incinerated when they [[Meaningful Funeral|fired it off inside a torpedo]] and there is nothing left, Saavik was surprised to find it was intact on the surface and later on Kirk was certainly surprised to find that [[First Law of Resurrection|Spock was alive]]. So why do they feel the need to steal the Enterprise and travel to Genesis? If you forget about the Klingons, the Grissom, [[Mate or Die|Spock boffing Saavik]] and all that other stuff that '''they don't know is happening''', [[So What Do We Do Now?|what were they planning to do when they arrived?]] The most sensible thing to do, given the information they have available, is to get a few tickets on a commercial trip to Vulcan so someone can extract that annoying Katra and let McCoy get back to being grumpy. There is no reason to even consider going to Genesis, well except that [[Just Eat Gilligan|the film would be pretty brief without it]]. |
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** For the sake of argument let's say that Sarek explains offscreen that the dead body is required for the katra ritual (even though Spock speaking through McCoy first says "take me to Vulcan", not "we need to go back to Genesis", and if the body ''is'' crucial you'd think Spock would have made sure to slip a "take my body back to Vulcan" into his final conversation with Kirk rather than risk driving Bones insane). This raises another question - what the hell is Starfleet's problem? You've got a top-level diplomat from one of the Federation's most important worlds, who's understandably upset that his son's body has been dumped on an alien planet rather than brought home in accordance with his culture. Even if you can't agree to another ship going into that sector to go get him, why not contact your ship that's ''already in orbit'' and tell them to take ten seconds to beam the tube aboard? |
** For the sake of argument let's say that Sarek explains offscreen that the dead body is required for the katra ritual (even though Spock speaking through McCoy first says "take me to Vulcan", not "we need to go back to Genesis", and if the body ''is'' crucial you'd think Spock would have made sure to slip a "take my body back to Vulcan" into his final conversation with Kirk rather than risk driving Bones insane). This raises another question - what the hell is Starfleet's problem? You've got a top-level diplomat from one of the Federation's most important worlds, who's understandably upset that his son's body has been dumped on an alien planet rather than brought home in accordance with his culture. Even if you can't agree to another ship going into that sector to go get him, why not contact your ship that's ''already in orbit'' and tell them to take ten seconds to beam the tube aboard? |
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*** The problem is probably that the Genesis Incident has set off a diplomatic shitstorm and they don't want just anyone marching down there for any old reason, basically. But probably more likely just story fiat. |
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