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   From: 80_knightREMOVEME@rogers.com   
      
   "whodunit"  wrote in message   
   news:Ub9Ee.1976$Fk4.478@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...   
   > Steven L. wrote:   
   >> Kweeg wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Keeper of the Purple Twilight"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:smUDe.30732$fV.9510@okepread06...   
   >>>   
   >>>> In article ,   
   >>>> "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I loved both the Scotty character and how James Doohan played him.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> In TV and the movies, except for Star Trek, there have been very few   
   >>>>> engineers portrayed as positive role models.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Agreed.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Trek has always had great engineers - Trip. Scotty. Geordi. O'Brien.   
   >>>> B'Elanna.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> The only ones that seemed well adjusted though were Scotty and O'Brien.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> But Scotty had a really nasty temper when he was provoked.  He was   
   >> practically yelling at some things Ambassador Hodin said.  And he was   
   >> fiercely defensive about the U.S.S. Enterprise, to the point of violence.   
   >> When that Klingon on Space Station K-7 called the Enterprise a piece of   
   >> garbage, Scotty punched him out.   
   >>   
   >> Sometimes a starship captain has to play diplomat rather than soldier.   
   >> Maybe that's why Scotty was never offered command of a starship, even   
   >> though he eventually got promoted to captain (cf. ST III: The Search for   
   >> Spock).   
   >>   
   >>   
   > True, he was not a diplomat--remember him having trouble with that   
   > "popinjay Fox"? ;-) Still...you sure could count on him to get things   
   > done. Note how fast he killed that assassin at the end of "The   
   > Undiscovered Country"!   
      
   Ah yes. I love that part. As "Andromeda's" Tyr once said, he fired and   
   postponed asking questions indefinitely. ;-)   
      
   > No sweet talk or diplomacy from him, just did what needed to be done.   
   > And always delivered before the time was due when he said it would be   
   > done! ;-)   
      
   Damn straight! :)   
      
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