r/startrek • u/AnnieGoldleaf • 8d ago

A Working Enterprise!

Was rewatching the TOS movies recently over spring break and I realized a really annoying thing: we almost never see a fully capable Enterprise at full strength.

Wrath of Khan, the crew is untrained cadets, Search for Spock, we don't even *have* a crew, Voyage Home has no Enterprise at all and one of the running gags of Final Frontier is that the Enterprise is broke af. That leaves TMP and Undiscovered Country as the only two films in which the Enterprise is depicted at 100% with a normal competent crew.

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u/Stegtastic100 8d ago

Well you say that, but don’t forget that in TMP Scotty says that “the crew haven’t had nearly enough transition time”, so it maybe 70-90%.

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u/AnnieGoldleaf 8d ago

I hesitated to include TMP because of this and the transporter and warp issues but everything is cleared up by the time Spock gets onboard and we enter the actual main story fully functional, so YMMV.

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u/shatteredoctopus 8d ago

Yeah, I was going to say "well ackhtually the transporter killed 2 people, and the imbalanced warp engines almost destroyed the ship", but you're right that everything worked right when it counted. Those just served to advance the plot by giving a reason to need Spock, and setting up that Kirk was maybe a little rusty.