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10-02-2021, 03:58 AM
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Star Trek: Lower Decks homages Star Trek III's Kirk stealing the Enterprise and it made Kirk's committing criminal acts to save Spock more heroic.
BY JOHN ORQUIOLA
PUBLISHED 15 HOURS AGO
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus".
Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) rescue of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from the Genesis Planet in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is homaged in Star Trek: Lower Decks, which also showed how easily Kirk's gambit could have failed. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek III was the direct sequel to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Spock died saving the crew of the Starship Enterprise from a revenge plot by Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus," is jam-packed with odes to numerous Star Trek episodes and films. When a Pandronian drill instructor comes aboard the USS Cerritos to test its crew, Ensigns Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (Noël Welles), and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) are given temporary command assignments and placed in holodeck drills simulating the USS Enterprise's past encounters with the Borg, the Mirror Universe, the Psi 2000 virus in Star Trek: The Original Series' "The Naked Time," and the warp drive threatening to explode in Star Trek II that caused Spock's death. The Cerritos' crew then came together for a drill reenacting how Kirk stole the Enterprise from a Starbase to rescue Spock in Star Trek III, a gambit that the Starfleet Officers utterly failed. Because of their bickering, Mariner couldn't even lead the Cerritos out of space dock.
As seen on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Captain Kirk's theft of the Enterprise in Star Trek III could have easily failed. Kirk and his loyal crew knew their gambit was a perilous act that warranted a court-martial (which came in the next film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). But when Kirk learned that Spock had entrusted his Vulcan soul - his katra - to Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the Captain had no choice but to steal his starship and break multiple regulations to reunite Spock with his katra. With McCoy, Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig), and Sulu (George Takei), Kirk's pirate crew hijacked the Starship Enterprise, which was due to be decommissioned, and piloted it out of space dock successfully in order to make their escape.
Star Trek: Lower Decks homages Star Trek III's Kirk stealing the Enterprise and it made Kirk's committing criminal acts to save Spock more heroic.
BY JOHN ORQUIOLA
PUBLISHED 15 HOURS AGO
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus".
Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) rescue of Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from the Genesis Planet in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is homaged in Star Trek: Lower Decks, which also showed how easily Kirk's gambit could have failed. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek III was the direct sequel to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Spock died saving the crew of the Starship Enterprise from a revenge plot by Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán).
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus," is jam-packed with odes to numerous Star Trek episodes and films. When a Pandronian drill instructor comes aboard the USS Cerritos to test its crew, Ensigns Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (Noël Welles), and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) are given temporary command assignments and placed in holodeck drills simulating the USS Enterprise's past encounters with the Borg, the Mirror Universe, the Psi 2000 virus in Star Trek: The Original Series' "The Naked Time," and the warp drive threatening to explode in Star Trek II that caused Spock's death. The Cerritos' crew then came together for a drill reenacting how Kirk stole the Enterprise from a Starbase to rescue Spock in Star Trek III, a gambit that the Starfleet Officers utterly failed. Because of their bickering, Mariner couldn't even lead the Cerritos out of space dock.
As seen on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Captain Kirk's theft of the Enterprise in Star Trek III could have easily failed. Kirk and his loyal crew knew their gambit was a perilous act that warranted a court-martial (which came in the next film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home). But when Kirk learned that Spock had entrusted his Vulcan soul - his katra - to Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the Captain had no choice but to steal his starship and break multiple regulations to reunite Spock with his katra. With McCoy, Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig), and Sulu (George Takei), Kirk's pirate crew hijacked the Starship Enterprise, which was due to be decommissioned, and piloted it out of space dock successfully in order to make their escape.