[net.startrek] Cruelty to Security Ensigns or Kirk's Senseless Cruelty

dbrown@watarts.UUCP (Dave Brown) (03/22/85)

> >Before you start praising Kirk again, we must first acknowledge those 
> >crew members who took the brunt of punishment while Kirk was being macho.
> 
> Have you ever considered what has got to be the worst duty on the
> Enterprise- to be the young Ensign/Lieutenant (usually from security) who
> has to beam down with the Captain as part of a landing party.
> 
> Let's face it, if you draw this job, you're chances aren't worth a plug
> nickel. After all, isn't it always the young noname crewman on the landing
> party who is always the first to be blasted, shot, vaporized, absorbed,
> disrupted, or turned into little white cubes?
> -- 
> Name:		John Ruschmeyer

Yes I agree. I think it is about time someone set up a society or some such
charitable organization for all those young widows, grieving girlfriends
and moping mothers who have lost their sons, lovers, husbands etc. when Kirk
decides to beam down on some unknown planet.

They could call it loyal order of the daughters of the Enterprise or some other
such silly name. But please, stop this inhumane treatment of young ensigns and
security men. I can see them even now. Their eyes are wet and moist, just
like those baby seals. But, if you look at them closely, they have the majustic
grace of the whale(slow to react). OH I CAN'T EVEN BEAR TO THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
If you too can't stand by and see this abonimable cruelty go on, I hope you to
will boycott the landing scenes whenever Kirk et. all beam down. Maybe only
then will those t.v. station operators understand that this senseless cruelty
will have to stop.

Not as sincerely as usually yours,

					DAVE BROWN