XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: sureshot@pcwranglers.com   
      
   Graham, I understand that you would probably like it better if Kirk did   
   give them weapons, but just because he didn't doesn't mean that Tyree et   
   al were left to their doom without hope of help.   
      
   Kirk had OTHER things he could do for Tyree, and that is probably what   
   he actually did do.  Obviously Kirk would not be satisfied to leave it   
   like that, and I don't think he would.  But he sure as shit wouldn't   
   require his reluctant shipmates to break the PD against their will,   
   either.   
      
   Kirk probably dutifully filed a report in which he complained about the   
   situation and offered his testimony and evidence.  Starfleet probably   
   called the top UFP guys for a quick conference over the situation, and   
   probably within hours, or days at the outside, Kirk or someone like him   
   was properly authorized to kick some Klingon butt.   
      
   Then Kirk and/or his equivalent would go ashore to barter with the   
   villagers and the hill people, and buy all the Klingon flintlocks back   
   from them.  Some duly-appointed UFP representative would hang around to   
   oversee the restoration of normal relations between the tribes.   
      
   The Klingons would be shamed for their dishonorable breaking of a   
   treaty, and the renegade Klingons who were responsible would get some   
   justice.   
      
   That's how I figure the situation actually would play out.  I figure   
   that that is the way it would play out, because that generally is the   
   way that they do things in TOS.   
      
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