cwayne@unm-cvax.UUCP (04/11/85)
When this was first adressed last year, I wrote up a possible outline
as to how Khan knew Chekov, but never got around to posting it. Well,
here it is now. Let me now what you think.
Pavel Chekov had just signed onto his first deep space mission as a
junior officer (not minor). He had the third watch as the navigator.
Lt. Desalle had the con. For some people, their first deep space mission
can be......well, interesting. Chekov turned a sickening shade of green
and threw up all over the nav console. Before the manual overide took over,
the barf seeped down into the circuitry and caused the ship to go into violent
gyrations. After it was over, Chekov was crawling out of the comode and
Desalle was rolling out of a heap of vomit. With that stern look of his,
Desalle ordered security to escort Chekov to sickbay. (that's why in a
later episode, "Cp", Desalle asks Chekov if he needs help and Chekov replies
"I'm not that green").
This new course the ship was on lead them to the Botany Bay. While Khan
was in sickbay, he talked with Chekov and they got to know each other a little.
If you noticed, Chekov was in the last bed up against the far wall and the
majority of the camera angles had Chekov behind the camera (so as not to
disturb him). In the one angle that did show Chekov's bed, he was not in it,
but in the john.
After Khan took over the ship and knowing how sick Chekov was (he was
begining to like Chekov), he allowed Nurse Chapel and a guard to look after
Chekov (is that too many chekovs?). When Marla excussed herself from watching
Kirk being tortured, she thought that if she could get a knock out drug from
sickbay, she could save Kirk (silly girl). To her surprise, there was this
guard between her and the hypo. She got Chapel to try to distract the guard,
but he caught her any way. while the two females were fighting with the guard,
Chekov herd the comotion, got out of bed and stumbled into the office, then he
promptly threw up on the guard. With the guard momentarily occupied, Chapel
grabbed the knock out hypo and dropped the guard to the floor.
Before Khan left for Ceti Alpha V, he walked over to Chekov and said,
"I'll never forget your face". The rest is history.
(enterprise theme now)
Chris Wayne @ UNM,
translated from the Kirtland Tapes,
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