Thoughts on the opening scene of ST III

[Admiral_K]

Bringing her on board his ship would have done that as well. I see no reason that she HAD to die.

She saw the tapes, SO WHAT! Having her back as a Klingon would have done the job as well.

It was said plenty of times in ST: the klingons don't value life the same way humans and the Federation do. As such, when someone makes a minor transgression: Valkris peeking at the tapes, the gunner hitting a survey ship and SURPRISE SURPRISE destroying it, they get executed.

I've got a feeling Vader would've executed the gunner too (via force choke ofcourse).

[Knife]

Well, the most likely scenario is he wanted prisoners to interrogate about Genesis. He wanted the weapon for the Klingon empire, so it wouldn't be good to kill those who potentially possessed it.

I always just figured that he wanted the computers and the prisoners to either run the computers or to access the computers on the Grisom, that had all or most of the Federation's info on Genesis. It was the research ship for the Genesis planet after all.

On the damage, didn't the Enterprise take some hits or close calls durring the battle in the Nebula in TWOK? Couldn't some of that damage happen there? Or perhaps secondary damage done by the shockwave of the detonation of the Genesis device at the end of TWOK?