ag4@pucc-h (Jeff Lewis) (09/06/84)
Au contraire, there is a scene specifically showing the ship falling
away from the Enterprise while Kirk narrates into his log that Khan
has discarded his old ship for useless.
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Jeff Lewis
{decvax|ucbvax|allegra|seismo|harpo|teklabs|ihnp4}!pur-ee!lewiefriedman@uiucdcs.UUCP (09/07/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1308500:uiucdcs:12500087:000:560 uiucdcs!friedman Sep 7 09:19:00 1984 > The fate of the Botany Bay is never made clear in the episode. > They just sort of forget about it. No, the fate of the Botany Bay seemed pretty clear to me: When Khan took over the Enterprise, he simply abandoned it. There was a shot of the two ships moving apart as the Enterprise pulled away. But that doesn't seem to me to conflict with finding gear marked "Botany Bay" on Khan's planet. They could have moved a lot of gear to the Enterprise before abandoning the Botany Bay. And that gear would likely have been sent down to the planet with them.