Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Several points on ST III & ST IV Message-ID: <539@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 12:22:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.539 Posted: Mon Aug 20 12:22:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:22:26 EDT References: <2665@ncsu.UUCP> <537@ihlts.UUCP> <2300@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 > Shouldn't Jim also lose his job? Exactly my point. Until and unless he does something to deserve the trust of Starfleet once again. > For all Star Fleet knew, there was a Klingon standing right behind > Saavik sticking a phaser in her ear and saying "Now, then, sweet thing. > Tell Starfleet that we are cool dudes or I'm going to fry your brains." > So, what you're telling me is Star Fleet just let them through because > Saavik called up and said it was okay? In Saavik's case, I doubt she could be coerced merely by having a phaser stuck in her ear. Remember, she's half Vulcan, half Romulan, and brought up as more of a wild animal than either of those. She now has the discipline of a Starfleet officer to add to that. Starfleet knows all that. What would you think if someone warned you that a Klingon scout ship was going from Genesis to Vulcan with NO defenses activated? Would you shoot on sight? That would be stupid. More likely stand at yellow alert with all YOUR defenses activated and prepared for a suicide run (by the Klingon vessel). -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe