Just because Chekov wasn’t on the bridge and we didn’t see him doesn’t mean that he wasn’t still part of the crew somewhere else on the ship. When we finally did see Chekov in Season 2, he at no point claimed to have just joined the crew.
Picard has her beat. Fucker put a kid in the pilots seat of the flagship. A kid who hadn’t passed the entrance exam for the academy. Nepotism rears its ugly head once again.
A kid who ended up transcending spacetime, let’s not forget. Harry Kim spent seven years as an ensign before, going onto an illustrious career of never being seen again, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
And keep in mind that Janeway broke the Temporal Prime Directive so many times that enforcement agents had to come from the 29th century twice to stop her and one ended up going insane as a result and tried to erase her from history in several different time periods.
Edit: oh, and before you say, “she defeated the Borg,” yeah, well, not quite. Picard et al had to clean that mess up, too because she didn’t quite finish the job in her last Temporal Prime Directive violation— and who lent a hand with that? That kid he let sit at the helm and his half brother.
And so Khan probably would have recognized anyone he had seen on the Enterprise then, even for a second. Actual episode elapsed time can be hours or days so he likely saw most of the crew.
Either Ricardo Montalbán or Walter Koenig (I forget which of them used to tell this story) head canons it that Khan had to use the (never seen) Enterprise toilets after Ensign Chekov when he was still a lower decker, and Chekov had used the last of the toilet paper, which is why Khan burnt his face into his memory.
That style of mug became popular in the 80s, when corporate commuting and cubicle culture exploded, and cars didn’t all come standard with cupholders yet. A mug like this could sit on the dash or console with stability, and it was also good for a crowded desk because you couldn’t knock it over and spill it.
Which makes it extra funny because they're on a space station not a ship like the other treks. I choose to believe it was foreshadowing that they were going to move the space station to the wormhole and there would be sloshing and turbulence when that happened. It's just solid planning.
I feel like Macaulay Culkin could have held off a couple of dopey Klingons. Honestly, you could put the wet bandits in Klingon loaf, and the movie would totally still work.
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