In fairness, this is a feature that is shared with many of the best-loved Star Trek stories. I mean, Star Trek II's premise is ludicrous if you think about it for a second. Reliant is conducting a survey mission of what is explicitly established as utterly exhaustive detail, and they don't know which planet they're looking at? Kirk strands the most dangerous war criminal Earth has ever known on an uninhabited planet and nobody at Starfleet writes down which one? It's incredibly stupid, and this is the Star Trek movie virtually everybody appears to agree is The Best One.

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