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   From: Obveeus@aol.com   
      
   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.   
      
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