From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: Kirk's Boo-Boos?   
      
   On Sep 25, 1:31apm, Marcovaldo  wrote:   
   > On Sep 25, 1:19apm, Ron  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Sep 25, 9:23aam, Rocinante  wrote:   
   >   
   > > > I believe he made a tactical error at the beginning ot ST: The Motionless   
   > > > Picture, but I will have to review it to see what it was. Anyone?   
   >   
   > > I'm pretty sure Deker thought he did since Ilia got technically   
   > > killed, though V'ger might have gone after her anyway since she was   
   > > Deltan, and like Spock, different from all the other humans.   
   >   
   > He may have been refering to the near-miss with the asteroid. Kirk   
   > ordered firing the phaser, which would not have worked. Then Decker   
   > saved the day by ordering the firing of photon torpedoes.   
   Hmmm, yeah...  But that's not a tactical mistake to me; just a dumb   
   one that anybody who was over-worked could have made. Kirk saw the   
   specs-- and according to the book version, he told the designers that   
   that was a bad idea--  and after that, forgot about it. He assumed   
   they had corrected the problem and his mistake was in not seeing if   
   they actually did or not. He thought the desk job had dulled his   
   edge,and maybe he was right. But even a dulled Kirk is a better   
   starship captain than any ten others; he got his ship and all but two   
   of his crew back from a mission that Decker could never handle.   
   Ron   
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