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More importantly, Spock has been part of the crew for ages, he was Captain at that point. The Federation and the Vulcans have been allied forever. Anyone should have known. I mean, they can pull up information on just about any species they've encountered, but don't know a core thing about the Vulcan people.

I mean, I understand these things in the original series. They kept switching different writers, so their was a lack of consistency....

Here's how I see it.

Saavik knew Spock had died isolated, so his katra should have been
destroyed. So, the only thing left (as she thought) was an empty shell.

That's why a Vulcan actually shed a tear as Spock was "buried"-
his DESTRUCTION was so profoundly tragic and sad for any Vulcan-
especially someone she knew- that she felt enough emotion to shed
a tear.

Mind you, I have at least 3 glaring errors from that movie, but that
wasn't any of them.

Although I do think Spock should have grabbed a HELMET when he
grabbed the gloves. He still would have been dead, but he was more
likely to survive long enough to complete the jury-rigging
(the temporary repair.)

1) The Reliant's survey mission. When entering the system and approaching
Seti Alpha 6, nobody did a scan of the solar system and accounted for all
the planets? If they had, they would have discovered one was MISSING.

2) Starfleet's seriously overconfident in their transporter technology,
especially since they can kill you or worse.
"Ceti Alpha 6" was hard to scan. So, it is unsafe to beam to-since they can't
safely scan, nor monitor the away team.
So, what you do is:
You prepare a shuttlepod. You cover it with sensors and BROADCASTING
equipment. The team flies the shuttlepod to the surface. Once there, they
light up the shuttlepod's systems. Now, there's an ACTIVE scan system
to interface with the Reliant. Now the Reliant can scan the area, and remain
in constant radio contact with the away team.

3) There was no way to determine if the team was in trouble, and no way to
get them to safety.
So, what you do is:
You set up and use the shuttlepod I just described. If Starfleet doesn't have
the Emergency Transporter Armband, then you use subcutaneous
transponders, and monitor the team continuously. That way, at the first sign
of trouble, you can beam them directly to the shutlepod, then use the
synchronized shuttlepod's transporter and the Reliant's transporter to beam
the away team off the planet.

Short movie. smile

Chekov was not part of the bridge crew at the time. He may have been on the ship
in another section.

As an SF film, I think it's a lot of fun.
I just don't pretend there aren't flaws, but I still enjoy the movie.

It bothers me that nobody even thought to just put on a Radiation Suit, period.

Also, Khan was put into suspended animation in the mid nineties.

He woke up, tried to take over the Enterprise, and was marooned on Ceti Alpha Five.

He took over the Reliant, attacked Kirk.

He informed Kirk that "there is a Klingon Proverb". This means that Khan not only magically knew what a Klingon was, he knew ALOT about what Klingons were, including proverbs, religions, mythology, ect. I can accept him having the ability to find out about a Klingon while read info in the Enterprise Sickbay (though, since he was reading up on taking over the Enterprise, I doubt he checked into it much), but not learn enough to be able to quote their literature.

When was there Time Travel?

Extended Universe is not Cannon, if that's where your explanation comes from.

EDIT: I read that as Time Travel, not Travel Time.


Be that as it may, this is still not enough time for him to get aquanted with the entire universe, especially if his time has been dedicated to learning bout the Genesis device.