chekov

Yeah, I think it's a variation of the Chekov quote (I pulled it from the chekov's gun's wiki.

Sulu and Chekov showed that the animosity of the 1940's and that of the Cold War were transient.

One famous example is Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov in the new Star Trek movies.

Bach and Beethoven, Shakespeare and Chekov - these people all operated in scarce-rights regimes.

Later, in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home Chekov is in grave danger but to rescue him would put their mission at risk which would endanger many more people.

I remember once reading a Chekov story where two intellectuals discuss how the townspeople are more interested in silly affairs and scandals rather than recognizing intellectual achievements.

Literal shooting on the other hand sounds like something Chekov would write about, something about the rifle above the fireplace in chapter 1 which needs to have been used by the next chapter [1].

[Off-topic] This is golden: > Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III.

Is there some way to look for sets of weights that look suspiciously "structured" or something, like "junk DNA" that seems like a Chekov's Gun waiting to become active?

Chekov saw himself first and foremost as a physician, continued to practice with a full patient panel even after he encountered massive success as a writer, and famously said "Medicine is my wife and writing is my mistress." Nathaniel Hawthorne was a low level government bureaucrat throughout his life.

I suppose I expected little, and some of the characters were likable (Chekov, Scottie, Kirk wasn't that bad).

As you like Russian literature, I suppose you've read Goncharov's Oblomov and Chekov's theater, especially Uncle Vania.

Your back-building of coincidence is essentially Chekov's gun, viewed from another angle.