XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
      
   >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*   
      
   grin.  There were lots of problems with military org charts.  Like   
   when Spock disqualifies himself and walks off the bridge without   
   designating a successor.  There's no third in line?   
      
   I can see a genius teenager running through the ship yelling "I can do   
   that".  That's why they don't put kids in charge of the whole ship.  I   
   enjoyed that scene.   
      
   Spock never figured out how Kirk hacked his simulation.  This leaves   
   him worried that Kirk can hack his way out of any other arrangement   
   that Spock puts him into.  There's a lot to be said for real bars   
   instead of those force field things.   
      
   The military flaws didn't spoil the movie for me.  The slapstick of   
   the cuisinart of doom scene, with Scotty running back and forth all   
   over the room nearly did.   
   --   
   Tomorrow is today already.   
   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27   
      
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