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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A Command Question - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 12:28:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!friedman    May  7 11:28:00 1984

/**** uiucdcs:net.startrek / uiucuxc!rcook / 12:42 pm  May  4, 1984 ****/
Does anyone recall from the Managerie when Spock released command to
Dr. McCoy?  This was when Spock was charged for mutiny and told Bones
to have him arrested.
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/**** uiucdcs:net.startrek / dartvax!mcmahan /  6:26 pm  May  2, 1984 ****/
               I believe that in "The Menagerie", Spock, when pressed
by Dr. McCoy about the shuttlecraft persuing the Enterprise, turned himself
in to the highest ranking officer present...Dr. McCoy. If the succession
of command does extend into the science division (which is probably 
unlikely given that one division in the official hierarchy is command) it
would probably point to McCoy next.
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No, no!  In Menagerie, Spock turned himself in to McCoy as senior officer
present, but he did not turn command over to McCoy, who (as a medical officer)
could not take command.  Just before presenting himself to McCoy for arrest,
he turned command over to the helm officer (I forget who, but it wasn't Sulu).