When Checkov was captured and interrogated, his phaser and communicator were confiscated and he ran away without them - so they stayed in the hands of the US government.
Yes they did. They ended up at Area 51 for governmental analysis according to a novelized Trek adventure (one of the Eugenics Wars books) featuring Gary Seven. Seven recovers the two items so that they would not further contaminate the timeline.
Edit because I meant to add that these items, also, were both Klingon technology. Since the lineage of both the phaser and communicator was extraterrestrial, it's doubtful that the technology would have been able to be reverse-engineered by Earth scientists in the 20th century. Since they were Klingon, Checkov likely thought nothing of simply leaving them behind.
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Krisko1974
8 years ago
Edit because I meant to add that these items, also, were both Klingon technology. Since the lineage of both the phaser and communicator was extraterrestrial, it's doubtful that the technology would have been able to be reverse-engineered by Earth scientists in the 20th century. Since they were Klingon, Checkov likely thought nothing of simply leaving them behind.
Oh, yes, right, I haven't thought of it that these items came from their Klingon Bird of Prey...their Earth-originating counterparts went down with the Enterprise.
Thanks for your input!
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