Subj : Star Trek II: Death of Khan?
To   : Chris Krascek
From : Kostie Muirhead
Date : Wed Jun 23 2021 19:33:03

  Re: Star Trek II: Death of Khan?
  By: Chris Krascek to All on Sun Jun 20 2021 10:19 pm

 CK> How do you think things would have played out if Kirk raised the shields
 CK> before the Reliant could attack? Further, while they are closely matched
 CK> in fire power, Kirk still has the ace of taking control of Reliant and
 CK> dropping shields. 

A Miranda class is nowhere near the same league as a Constitution. In a
straight up fight with all other factors being equal, the Connie wipes the floor with the Miranda every day of the week, even with a trainee crew. It's one of the things I like most about WOK - the baddie doesn't have a bigger badder ship.

 CK> It kind of makes me think how Khan, being of superior intellect would have
 CK> reacted. 

I would imagine some level of ruse would have been concocted along the lines of requesting assistance with a repair team to fix comms or similar - requiring the lowering of shields for transport. There's any number of ways Kirk and co. could have been baited into dropping shields, just the way it happened allowed another element of storytelling with regards to where Kirk's character was at.
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