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From: pritch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Norman Pritchett)
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Subject: Re: How does Kirk get out of this one?
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 22:02:05 EST
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>> 2) Sarek has pull; is there any way he can intervene?  After all the
>> decision to quarantine Genesis was made by the Federation Council... Sarek
>> is influential member of the council...exceptions can be made... can't they?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Norm Pritchett 
>
> Captain Spock, while he might be a great guy and an all around fun person,
> is just another officer.  The Federation will probably not see how Jim is
> allowed to break all these rules to recover just another officer.
> 
> He is the son of an ambassadour, I admit, but that still doesn't make him
> important enough that Jim could be allowed to get away with this.
> 

Sorry... I left out a point that made me think about this.  I will grant
that everything you mention above is true (I was thinking that as well) but
then I considered: Can Sarek claim he had nothing to do with Kirk's running
off?  (Pardon me if I'm mistaken but) considering Sarek is a member of the
body that quarantined Genesis how can he let Kirk run off to Genesis with
prior knowledge?  Wouldn't he be considered an accomplice then? If that were
true then add him to the list of people who have-to-get-out-of-it-this-time.
The least Sarek can be nailed for at this point is aiding and abetting
fugitives (unless he turns them in of course). 

To the person who replied saying "Kirk doesn't have to get out of it this
time" I will have to conceed that you are 100% correct.  My big frustration
walking away from the theatre the first time I saw the movie was that they
ended it so they didn't HAVE to have another movie.  That unfortunately
gives me big mental problems so my way of dealing with it is by adopting a
big streak of optimism and going under the assumption that there will be
ST-IV (already true) and that Kirk and company will find a way out like they
always have before (anyother way wouldn't be StarTrek).  If that doesn't
happen the net will be the first to receive my suicide letter :-).
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