The funny thing is that the episode "Space Seed" was a first season episodes, but in the movie "The Wrath of Kahn," Kahn says he knows Chekov. To me, that implied that the character was always there but he wasn't promoted to the bridge crew until later.
-PJ
Yes, that may have been a lazy slip up by the writers of WOK, but there’s no real problem with Chekov being made out to have been a member of the crew, off the bridge and unseen in season 1.
The actors joked that there was a line for the bathroom and Chekov cut ahead of Kahn and pissed him off. ;D
They really blew it in the new movies though. In one TOS episode Chekov says he’s 23 (no reason to lie), that would make (IIRC I’m not gonna look it up) him 14 during the first reboot movie where he says he 17. I don’t see how the changes in the timeline could have resulted in some Russian kid being born 3 years earlier. Maybe he’s actually not the same character but a previously non-existent older brother with the same name. ;d Yes that stupid explanation could work. Regular Chekov sure didn’t seem like some wunderkind boy genius.
I would have liked to see a Rand and Nurse Chapel in the new movies, no Rand at all and Chapel mentioned in passing as having been pumped and dumped by Kirk (how very respectful of the character). Chapel is the one who should have hooked up with Spock, not Uhura (WTF?)
And what of the mysterious “# 1” the original first officer under Pike. They blew an opportunity to do something new and explore that character. If Chapel (both characters were played by Majel Barrett) was there too that would have hilarious.
Bastards, I like these reboot movies less the more I think about them. Still they aren’t as bad as “Nemesis” and “Insurrection”. Star Trek needs better GD writers!