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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jack Bohn  writes:   
      
   >Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
      
   >>You know, one of the differences in feel between TOS and both TNG and   
   >>the 2009 re-boot is in how they address discipline and chain of command.   
   >>  TOS was written by people who had some idea of what the military was   
   >>really like, many of them having served themselves.   
      
   >>Kirk didn't tell his subordinates how to do a task, he just said   
   >>"do it".  Every time he sits down there's a yeoman handing him a report   
   >>to read and sign.  How often did we see Picard doing paperwork?   
      
   >Well, he pushed a lot of that on his XO.  It's Riker I remember   
   >taking reports and doing crew evaluations and such.   
      
   	Well, Riker had all that spare time in-between asking obvious   
   questions so as to set up expository lumps from Data or LaForge, so it's   
   just good resource management to have him do the paperwork.   
      
      
   	I do think that Next Generation's lack of yeomen and shortage of   
   clipboards being passed around was meant to reflect Roddenberry's Vision   
   that in The Future most of the routine stuff of life would be handled by   
   the quite smart computers around them.  It fits with the notion that the   
   ship didn't need a Chief Engineer as a regular character because the work   
   of engineering would be done automatically enough not to need regular   
   bridge-level supervision.   
      
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