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From: don@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Kirk and Morrow's jobs
Message-ID: <772@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:08:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 12:08:20 1985
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Reply-To: don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss)
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In article <574@riccb.UUCP> rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes:
>> Kirk was never "Chief of Starfleet Operations".  That was the guy who 
>> forbade Kirk from going to the Genesis planet.
>Oh, yes he was!
>[...]
>Kirk's reply is:
>"Two and a half years as Chief of Starfleet Operations may have made me a
>little stale, but . . . . They gave her back to me, Scotty!"
>In "Star Trek: The Search for Spock" Admiral Morrow is Commander, Starfleet.
>Just a bit higher than Kirk.

Admiral Morrow is indeed Starfleet Commander -- this means that he is THE
big shot in Starfleet. (Like one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff).
 
Admiral Kirk is Chief of Starfleet Operations -- in the area of Education and
Training. Why else would Kirk have been at the training scenario and on
the cadet cruise?

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