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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
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Subject: Re: How does Kirk get out of this one?
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 10:42:42 EST
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> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> 	Then how do we explain the Vulcans intervening (and winning) on
> behalf of a lowly Lt. Commander (or was it commander) in Amok Time?????
> Remember, "As Vulcan goes, so goes the  Federation!"
> 
> -- 
> 
>   Mike Stalnaker  UUCP:{decvax!grendel,cbosgd!seismo}!dolqci!mike


Don't think so, Mike.  At the end of the show (except that it usually gets 
editted out) the Federation sends a (late) message to Jim that says that it's
okay for him to take Spock to Vulcan.  

Besides, aren't Vulcan rituals and other such things very private affairs.
The Vulcans, from what I understand, are a little embarassed by whatever
the name of the ritual Spock was doing because they lose their cool and
logical Vulcan exterior and tend to act very emotional and kill Captains
and good stuff like that.  If so, I have my doubts about whether his grandma
or whoever the chick was would attempt to explain to the Federation council.

How is Jim going to explain that he knew Spock was alive.  How is he going
to explain that he knew Spock's soul was kept in Bones?  Remember that 
telepathy (or other extrasensory perception kinds of stuff) is NOT admissable
as evidence.  What hard evidencedid Jimmy have to go out there?  Anyone have
any shots?

Again, let me emphasize that I'm not condemning Jim.  I'm sure there is a way
out of it that we all haven't seen.  Something will be done to get Jimmy-boy
out of the mess he's in, and I can't wait to see what it is.
As David Gerrold so aptly put it, "We don't tune in to see whether the hero
is going to escape.  We KNOW he's going to escape; That's why he's the hero.
We just wanbt to see how."
--
                                                              Peter Merchant