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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 6/26/2017 12:40 PM, Obveeus wrote:   
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   > On 6/26/2017 3:13 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
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   >> 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.  Yes,   
   >> they bend things a bit for story purposes and the limits of filming a   
   >> TV show, but their starting point was a working military.  Characters   
   >> stay at their posts.   
   >   
   > This is simply not true.  The show illogically (for any real military)   
   > had the leader, Kirk, always beaming down into unknown conditions.  Many   
   > of the rest of the bridge crew illogically beamed down frequently as   
   > well.  Outside of Spock and Uhura, none of those people should/would   
   > have ever had a reason to have been bopping down to new planets on a   
   > whim in any realistic 'military' show.   
   >   
   Senior officers did exactly that during the Age of Exploration.  I did   
   also say they bend things for production purposes.   
      
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