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Why didn't Khan's abilities transfer into Kirk after transfusion?
Kirk was never actually injected with Khan's blood. Bones was able to isolate its regenerative activity and develop a serum that produced that same effects:
MCCOY: Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You ...
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Do the Q Exist In the Abrams Star Trek Universe?
The (canon-ish) IDW Star Trek Ongoing comic series The Q Gambit featured Q meeting the crew of the "Alternate Universe" Enterprise.
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Do starship captains typically recite mission-specific oaths, as at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness?
The entire thing doesn't seem to be the oath, just specific parts of it. And most of it isn't unique to the Enterprise, it's part of the Federation charter and Starfleet's general orders.
Seeking out ...
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Why don't they use the transporter in the final fight in Star Trek Into Darkness?
The novelisation gives us a little more info. In short, there's just too much going on for them to get a reliable fix. It's not just that the two fighters are moving, it's that they're on a moving ...
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In "Into Darkness", what kind of history do Carol Marcus and Khan have?
They have no history.
She finagled a transfer onto the Enterprise precisely so that she could study the super-torpedoes that her father's secret research team were working on so secretively.
“Prepped ...
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Does Harrison give a true account of his backstory to Kirk?
The quote from the film is
Khan: A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war. But we
were condemned as criminals, forced into ...
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Why do so many Trekkies hate Star Trek Into Darkness?
JJ Abrams himself has expressed regrets about how Into Darkness played out. In this Buzzfeed interview
But by the time we started shooting, and this was literally at the very beginning of the shoot,...
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How could this character have been teleported while the Enterprise's shields were up?
Shield were down at that point.
KIRK: Damage report!
SULU: Weapons are way down. Shields are dropping.
[a second later]
DARWIN: We're defenceless, sir.
Into Darkness Transcript ...
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What species were the two women Kirk slept with in Star Trek Into Darkness?
They are Caitians, just their version of them for his universe is quite different than previous iterations. It's a completely alternate universe, so something obviously happened to make them develop ...
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Why would Admiral Marcus need Khan's help?
From Star Trek Into Darkness:
Kirk: Why is there a man in that torpedo?
Khan: There are men and women in all those torpedoes, Captain. I put them there.
Kirk: Who the hell are you?
Khan: A remnant of ...
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How did the Enterprise get to Qo'nos unopposed?
They did not:
MARCUS: As part of our defensive strategy, 31 developed a new photon
torpedo. (calls up hologram) Long range and untraceable, it would be
invisible to Klingon sensors. I don't want you ...
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Has a Starfleet officer ever been punished for refusing an "abandon ship" order?
In The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard, we learn that (then Commander) Picard of the Stargazer countermanded the lawful order of the ship's first officer (acting as Captain after the death of her ...
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Why does the U.S.S. Vengeance have an open saucer section?
We don't have any canonical answer, but we have semi-canonical reasons for other design aspects of Federation ships, such as placement and pairing of nacelles, that are mostly related to the shape and ...
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Why do the phaser blasts of the U.S.S. Vengeance in Star Trek Into Darkness curve?
Watching the video, it would seem some of the apparently curving phaser shots may be because of a moving camera point of view (particularly at the point were the Enterprise spins and drops out of warp)...
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Why couldn't Checkov beam Khan to the ship at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness, but after Khan and Spock fight he could?
The novelisation indicates that he's moving too fast and that the abundance of other life-signals in the area is making it impossible to track him long enough to beam him out (as well as moving ...
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Do starship captains typically recite mission-specific oaths, as at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness?
I add to the existing answer that this quote is based in part on Zefram Cochrane's speech at the dedication of the Warp 5 program facility, therefore predating the Federation:
ZEFRAM: On this site, ...
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What is the difference in Admiral Pike's Rank insignia and Capt Kirk's in Star Trek Into Darkness
At the time of that pic above, Pike had been made Captain. Marcus is an Admiral. Kirk had been demoted in position but no one really stated that he had been demoted in rank (and unlikely given he ...
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Why didn't Kirk (and crew) simply transport from Earth to Kronos?
This was addressed in the film's official novelisation. In short, transporting that kind of distance would be almost certainly fatal for an ordinary human and probably fatal to a Vulcan. Even if they ...
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Why did McCoy need this person in particular to make his serum?
One added thought as I was just watching the movie; McCoy talks about a transfusion. So he needs more than just a hypo of blood to save Kirk. I'm thinking the TOS episode "Babylon" where Spock was ...
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Why is gravity pulling the crew down they're in freefall?
This was addressed in considerable detail in the film's official novelisation. In short, the artificial gravity is on the fritz and the gravity generator isn't getting enough power. This causes ...
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