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From: dbb@opus.UUCP (David B. Bordeau)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: first best destiny
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 14:59:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 14:59:17 1985
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> 
> I'm not sure this is true.  Starfleet seems to be solidly based on acient
> military traditions, some of them British (I seem to remember bagpipes at
> Spock's sendoff).  As I recall from the Hornblower books, once Hornblower
> became an admiral, custom demanded that he leave all the actual running
> of his flagship to it's captain (a restriction he resented, esp since
> the captain was a rather poor sailor).  Admirals command fleets, not
> ships.
> 
> 				Ted Nolan	..usceast!ted
> -- 
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	Just for the record Scotty is SCOTTISH from SCOTLAND
	not British. Besides Britons don't use bagpipes!!!

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