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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Transfer of command in "Menagerie"
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 13:42:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 13:42:47 1984
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There is the key in my opinion.  The command must be transferred to
someone that is currently on call to or on duty on the bridge.  This
is true in modern times...you don't command the ship from the engine
hold or from the storage deck but from the bridge.  Note also that
when Scotty took command, he was always called to the bridge, and
there the transfer of command took place.  In the case of Kirk being
given command back in the transporter room in the Menagerie, this is
simpply the case since Kirk is the Commander of the Enterprise, the
Captain.

Also, in regards to Spocks rank being that of one grade higher than
the rest of the department heads, Spock is also the First Officer.
Normally the first officer will outrank a department head (i.e. being
a Commander instead of Lt. Commander.)  Therefor the chain of command
is Captain -> Executive Officer -> Department Heads.  If anyone has
ST:tMP on videotape, could they check, for then the Enterprise had an
Executive Officer and also a Science Officer.  What were their ranks?


Here Mousey, Mousey, Mousey

Walt Pesch
AT&T TEchnologies
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