don@umd5.UUCP (11/03/85)
In article <574@riccb.UUCP> rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes: >> Kirk was never "Chief of Starfleet Operations". That was the guy who >> forbade Kirk from going to the Genesis planet. >Oh, yes he was! >[...] >Kirk's reply is: >"Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a >little stale, but . . . . They gave her back to me, Scotty!" >In "Star Trek: The Search for Spock" Admiral Morrow is Commander, Starfleet. >Just a bit higher than Kirk. Admiral Morrow is indeed Starfleet Commander -- this means that he is THE big shot in Starfleet. (Like one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Admiral Kirk is Chief of Starfleet Operations -- in the area of Education and Training. Why else would Kirk have been at the training scenario and on the cadet cruise? -- --==---==---==-- "What happened ?" "It seems the occipital area of my head impacted with the arm of the chair." "No, I mean, what happened to us ?" "That has yet to be surmised." ARPA: don@umd5.ARPA BITNET: don%umd5@umd2 SPOKEN: Chris Sylvain UUCP: { {allegra, seismo}!umcp-cs, ihnp4!rlgvax }!cvl!umd5!don