From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Amok Time: my review   
      
   On Jan 7, 9:17apm, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > That's no more "unbelievable" than the situation in today's co-ed Navy,   
   > in which female sailors serving on Navy ships who get pregnant have to   
   > be transferred to shore. a(And quite a few have.)   
   I don't see the point.  When that happens, we know why they're being   
   transferred because everybody knows what pregnancy is.  But nobody   
   seems to know what Pon Farr is before this episode.   
   If (for some unimaginable reason), nobody knew what pregnancy was,   
   they'd have to find out pretty quickly if they had women in their   
   service.   
   > This past year, one admiral tried to do a very un-PC thing: aHe ordered   
   > that female sailors who get pregnant while serving on a Navy ship should   
   > be court-martialed. aPresident Obama rescinded the order.   
   Actually, that doesn't seem too unreasonable, as long as you're fair   
   about it (court-martial the guy who got her pregnant too).  In   
   principle, getting out of service by getting pregnant is similar to   
   getting out of service by shooting yourself in the foot.  The main   
   difference is that people do that deliberately, while pregnancy is   
   often the result of carelessness.  What do they do to a soldier who   
   gets out of combat by getting injured accidentally, but in a way   
   that's clearly his own fault?   
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