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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 00:51:00 EDT
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uokvax!lmaher    Jun 18 23:51:00 1984

/***** uokvax:net.startrek / umcp-cs!brad /  8:24 am  Jun  3, 1984 */
I loved the acting except for Christopher Lloyd.  I just couldn't see him as
evil...
/* ---------- */

        Wasn't  this  intentional?   Kruge   isn't   evil,   just
unprincipled.   The  Federation  has  a  weapon  that can destroy
entire planets.  If  the Klingons don't get it  to  maintain  the
balance  they're  history.  (Obviously the Klingons can't believe
the Federation would possess such a weapon but not use it.  After
all, if the situation were reversed, ...)

        When the stakes are the life  or  death  of  your  entire
race,  there  are  no  rules.   Kruge gambled, and he lost.  Kirk
could have prevented David's death if  he  had  wanted  to  badly
enough  -  he  gambled,  and  he lost.  Kirk has destroyed entire
societies (although not lives) just  to  preserve  his  ship  and
crew.  Can we  condemn  Kruge for committing smaller crimes for a
greater  cause?   Remember  Kruge  wanted  to  take  the  Grissom
prisoner;  no one needed to die.  Kirk lost David, but Kruge lost
his entire crew to Kirk's trick (a marvelous scene, by the way).

        This is not a condemnation of  Kirk,  but  a  defense  of
Kruge.   Like  all Great Men, he did what had to be done.  Unlike
Great Men, he failed.  R.I.P.

	Carl			(formerly uok!crigney)
	..!ctvax!uokvax!lmaher		..!duke!uok!uokvax!lmaher

P.S.  But then, I rooted for Khan :-)