XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >   
   > With the re-boot movie they display a level of military discipline that   
   > Somali pirates would laugh at.  Civilian cargo and fishing vessels have   
   > better discipline than the 2009 version Starfleet!  In the middle of an   
   > action while at General Quarters a bridge officer leaves his post,   
   > without even telling anyone let alone asking permission or arranging a   
   > replacement, to go interfere with a superior officer doing their job in   
   > a different part of the ship!  (Literally running thru the ship yelling   
   > "I can do that!"?!?!?!)  One of the duties of an executive officer is to   
   > play Devil's Advocate for his CO, presenting alternatives and pointing   
   > out potential problems with the CO's plans.  Its both to help his own   
   > training and to serve as a necessary sounding board for his CO.  In the   
   > re-boot, when Spock is in command his reaction to his exec (Kirk)   
   > disagreeing is to literally throw him off the ship!  And do you really   
   > want me to go in to the whole idea of a cadet who hasn't even graduated   
   > being given command of a major ship ahead of literally thousands of more   
   > senior, more experienced officers?  All of which would be horrid whether   
   > it was a Trek movie or some new setting.   
   >   
   *notices none of the "It Was Great" crowd trying to show me I'm wrong*   
      
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