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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Star Trek ramblings
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Date: Sun, 21-Apr-85 13:54:44 EST
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> For some time UCD has been a "read only" site, thus, apologies
> for opinions for what may be musty topics...
> 
> 
> Re:  Suggestions that Kirk will be court martialed.
> 
> 	If it were the real world, would Kirk really be in hot
> 	water?  He saved the Genesis information, recovered Spock,
> 	eliminated a Klingon threat, captured his ship and only
> 	lost a ship that was going to be out to drydock anyway.
> 

{ There you go again }

Well, let's see...

a) He saved the Genesis information from what?  The Klingons?  What Klingons?
The Klingons themselves didn't know of any of their ships running around in
Federation territory.  They are going to scream to high heaven that this is
a frame-up job.  Remember: We saw the movie.  The Federation Council DIDN'T!
They don't KNOW what happened out there.

b) He recovered Spock.  Large fat hairy deal.  The Federation would not 
   crumble without Spock.  Come on, kids...

c) Eliminated a Klingon Threat?  What threat?  I see no Klingons here.  All
   we have is a Federation Admiral who stole a ship, disabled another one
   (Although I don't know if they'll be able to prove Scotty did it) and
   broke a bunch of serious orders telling us that there were a bunch of Klingon
   spies running around.  Trust him?!  I wouldn't even listen to him!

d) Lost a ship that was only going to drydock?  Well, yes, but we also assume
   that the Enterprise data banks were still intact and probably chock full
   of classified information.  If the ship was going to drydock, the information
   wasn't...

Let's look at it from the Federation's point of view.  Jim is disgruntled with
the Federation, so he goes over to the Klingons.  Gives the Klingons the info
about Genesis.  In return, Jim gets a ship with a cloaking device (so the
Federation won't see him) and goes and gets Spock and returns to Vulcan to save
the life of his best friend.  The Federation catches Jimmy on Vulcan and says
"Hey, Jim, where'd you get the new ship?" and he comes up with some cock-and-bull
story about how the Klingons were going to steal Genesis and he beat them up.
"Right, Jim.  Why not just come with us?"
--
                                   Peter Merchant