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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 27-6-2017 om 05:05 schreef J. Clarke:   
   > In article , Obveeus@aol.com says...   
   >>   
   >> On 6/26/2017 3:13 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > He's the Captain. He gets to do stupid things if he wants to--nobody on the   
   > ship has the authority to stop him unless they want to go _way_ out on a   
   > limb and claim that he's disabled in some way.   
   >   
      
   How would Kirk have handled the TNG mindset of captains not being on an   
   away team aka landing party? He would not have been okay with it I think.   
      
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