From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Explanation to Graeme about A Piece of the Action
"Carol B." wrote in message
news:972aaea6-7b4e-4d86-8c91-3f8f1f535217@18g2000yqu.googlegroups.com:
> I recently got the new version with the better special effects on DVD
> (and I watch it like crazy) so I came on deja to review talk about
> this ep! I found a long discussion-review of this ep about nine years
> ago started by someone called Connmoore! It appears years ago that
> you, Graeme, felt that Bela Oxmyx was a bad Kirk-made choice to run
> the Iotian planet rather than Jojo Krako (as the latter had tried to
> cut Kirk in for a percentage while OTOH Oxmyx didn't offer Koik
> beans). Well, you were right to a large degree but what of BO's
> longtime familiar leadership in more or less running the planet as
> being a contributing factor in Kirk's decision? Think that's a point?
I think a more valid point is for the Federation to announce that they
will insist on making Krako the head of the planet is too close to
violating the Prime Directive.
As things are, Kirk leaves the balance of power intact: Oxmyx remains
the head of the largest territory, Krako the head of the second largest,
and a bunch of small fry. The only change is the alliance of all these
leaders into a "syndicate." But this way, as you say, Krako doesn't
have to learn how to run the planet, and Oxmyx wouldn't be feeling
cheated and wishing for revenge.
As we saw in "A Private Little War," Kirk has a preference for
maintaining the status quo on a less advanced planet, rather than trying
to reshape it to his liking or the Federation's liking.
-- Steven L.
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