Star Trek II - Chekov stinks at scanning

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I'm am sure someone has realized this before, but watching Trek today, I just realized that in order for the crew of the Reliant to not know that Ceti Alpha 6 was gone and that there was a planet missing, Chekov, the science officer, would have had to have ignored scanning the solar system when they came into range (like they do in a lot of episodes). So the whole course of events in the movie is Chekov's fault.

[DocDrako]

Russians invented "not scanning". Seriously though, I always wondered how they didn't notice A MISSING PLANET!

[Gorn Captain]

"Captain, we have nuked our enemies on Mars, the blue planet."
"Chekov, you do mean the red planet?!"
"Boshe moi! I'm also colourblind...."

[Nostalgiabuff]

no you have it all wrong. they knew a planet had blown up, they just were wrong about which planet. Ceti 6 blew up but they though it was 5 because the explosion caused 5 to shift out of it's orbit. that is why ceti 5 is a wasteland when they beam down.

[trekman101]

they knew a planet had blown up, they just were wrong about which planet. Ceti 6 blew up but they though it was 5 because the explosion caused 5 to shift out of it's orbit. that is why ceti 5 is a wasteland when they beam down.

That's what I always thought too