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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Command Precedence??
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 12:07:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 12:07:41 1984
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>	I disagree that the command goes to whoever has the most
>	'command experience'.  How many episodes are there when an
>	Incompetent Commodore takes over command in Kirk's absence?

I don't think anyone has suggested that command goes to whomever has the
MOST command experience, but suitable command training.  Besides, command
is never given to these incompetents, but taken by them, as with Commodore
Decker in "The Doomsday Machine" and Commodore Stocker in "The Deadly
Years".  (High Commissioner Ferris, of "The Galileo Seven" did not take
command of Enterprise but did force Kirk to abandon the search.)
	Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe