brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (06/11/84)
Can anybody believe that McCoy, with health problems, and after violating Star Fleet Security orders about Genesis, would be put in a Civilian jail? It was not a mental hospital, the guards said they were "moving him TO the funny-farm soon", so there is no excuse for the insubordination towards Admiral Kirk and Lt. Commander Sulu. Of course they knew who they were. As a flag officer, Kirk would be well known, and you do have to identify yourself to visit a prisoner, you know. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304
rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (06/12/84)
> there is no excuse for the insubordination towards Admiral Kirk > and Lt. Commander Sulu. Of course they knew who they were. > Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304 First of all, Sulu is a full Commander, if not a Captain (as in McIntyre's novelizations of ST2 and 3). Second, it appeared pretty clear to me that Sulu was trying to appear to be somebody's messenger boy (still in Starfleet) rather than an officer. Third, I do not think the responses of the security guards were insubordinate at all. Disrespectful, maybe, but not insubordinate. You have to take into account the type of Starfleet people who would end up in security, particularly those who become stockade guards. -- "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe -- "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis to stop up the drain." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (06/12/84)
I think we're overlooking a third possibility. Suppose the jail were
neither a civilan nor military jail, but one being run by some Federation
equivalent of the CIA? These guys would be arrogant and disrespectful
of anybody, even an Admiral.
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Bob Fishell
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