john@hp-pcd.UUCP (06/10/84)
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Who said that the security officer was off duty. Do you think that they
hang around dives like that? McCoy must have went home and let it be known
that he wanted transportation with No questions asked. That is why big ears
came looking for him in the first place. If a Federation informant were also
to hear about it then you bet that someone would look into it. The place was
being watched and when he started talking about Genesis they nabbed him. He
would have been taken to the closest detention facility which would probably
be civilian and later transfer him to a Star Fleet one.
John Eaton
!hplabs!hp-pcd!johnbarnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) (06/11/84)
[I'm a doctor, not a(n) (insert you favorite occupation)]
It has been postulated that the insubordiation of the guards in the stockade
could be explained if it were in fact a regular civilian jail. If that's so,
why would Sulu flash his Star Fleet ID at them? It also doesn't make much
sense for an off duty Star Fleet security fellow to haul McCoy to a civvie
jail for mouthing off about an area restricted by Star Fleet. I think the
guards were just insubordinate, and under different circumstances, Kirk
probablly would've strung them up by their thumbs for their behavior.
Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
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