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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >Dimensional Traveler  writes:   
   >   
   >>  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.   
   >   
   >	I put to you a hypothetical: the United States Navy commissions   
   >a ship.  It puts on this ship two commissioned officers, and a handful   
   >of non-commissioned, and otherwise fills it up with over a hundred and   
   >fifty cadets, half of them under the age of seventeen, and gives them an   
   >actual mission.  It's intended in part to be training for these cadets,   
   >to be sure, but it's still the Navy ordering official business.   
   >   
   >	Is this scenario remotely credible to you?   
      
   In an panic emergency situation, remotely credible.  When they come   
   back, no.  The cadets are scattered to the rest of the fleet and the   
   experienced officers come back from where they were hiding when the   
   emergency hit.   
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   Greg Goss, 1989-01-27   
      
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