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   From: j.clarke.873638@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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