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From: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Court-Martial
Message-ID: <130@micropro.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 19:28:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 26 19:28:12 1985
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Summary: red alert

In article <3012@hplabsb.UUCP>, morrell@hplabsb.UUCP writes:
> I just saw Court-Martial last night and got confused.
> I would think a distinction could be made between a Red alert situation
> occurring and the Red alert actually being sounded.
> The question in the episode should have been "Was the Enterprise in a
> Red Alert situation when Kirk jettisoned the pod containing Lt. Cmdr. Finney?"
> and not worry about whether Kirk had the chance to press the Red alert button
> or not!
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?

It always seemed to me that the emphasis in that scene was the *light* 
indicating RED ALERT and then the button to jettison the pod.  

Also, the enterprise is not in red alert until the captain (or senior
officer on the bridge) orders said alert.  If the conditions have become
that serious, the captain MUST order the alert in order to create such
a situation.

The whole thing is rather silly though.  The captain can order you
spaced in your underwear red alert or no.  As a military commander 
he has that much authority.  T'was an excellent story, but you've
got to try and ignore that fact.
			-edg



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