XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.startrek.current, alt.tv.star-trek.tng   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Mon, 25 May 2009 18:49:20 -0700, Tim Bruening   
    wrote:   
      
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   >David Johnston wrote:   
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   >> On Tue, 19 May 2009 21:36:26 -0700, Tim Bruening   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >> >David Johnston wrote:   
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   >> >> On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:22:09 -0700, "Kweeg"    
   >> >> wrote:   
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   >> >> >>>In TNG, we have whole families, and presumably romances on star   
   ships, and   
   >> >> >>>Riker and Troi have an on-again-off-again relationship when he is   
   first   
   >> >> >>>officer and over her in the chain of command.   
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   >> >> He isn't over her in the chain of command.  As political officer she   
   >> >> is coequal with him.  Hence the arrangment of their chairs.   
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   >> >Troi is a political officer?  What political ideologies does she enforce?   
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   >> Why that of the Federation of course.   
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   >Which political ideologies does the Federation follow/enforce?   
      
   Liberal-Democratic Socialism.   
      
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