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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: first best destiny
Message-ID: <2180@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 18:55:24 EST
Article-I.D.: usceast.2180
Posted: Sat Mar  9 18:55:24 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 07:08:45 EST
References: <283@unm-cvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer)
Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia
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Summary: 

In article <283@unm-cvax.UUCP> cwayne@unm-cvax.UUCP (Chris Wayne) writes:
>
>     This is just a little nit-picking.  I'm not flaming anyone, but Droyan
>said that for Kirk, being captain was his first best destiny.  This was not
>the major subject of Droyan's article, but I do believe that Kirk's first
>best destiny was being in command of the Enterprise, which means he can still
>be an admiral.
>
>                                                 Chris Wayne @ UNM

I'm not sure this is true.  Starfleet seems to be solidly based on acient
military traditions, some of them British (I seem to remember bagpipes at
Spock's sendoff).  As I recall from the Hornblower books, once Hornblower
became an admiral, custom demanded that he leave all the actual running
of his flagship to it's captain (a restriction he resented, esp since
the captain was a rather poor sailor).  Admirals command fleets, not
ships.

				Ted Nolan	..usceast!ted
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