[ SECRET POST #2776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2776 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've always had a secret head canon while watching TOS that Kirk and McCoy were considered deeply stupid and incompetent by Starfleet, and Spock while competent was unbelievably annoying, so they were all sent on this 5 Year Mission because Starfleet just wanted them out of their hair for 5 Years (or forever, wishful thinking by HQ).

The rest of the crew just hate their lives because they know they're being punished by being on this mission. While Kirk thinks exactly what he's supposed to think - that the whole thing is an honour and that he is the best thing since sliced bread. And Spock just dutifully hangs out in the background, judging humans for their stupidity and fixing their mistakes whenever they start threatening his own life.

Explains why no one has an issue with the 3 highest ranking officers going on away missions all the time. Also explains why they keep on getting their redshirts killed or having aliens take over the ship - deep imcompetence.

Watching TOS is a lot of fun this way, believe me.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to worry about the three highest ranking officers going on away mission - it just seemed daft to me. Then I read a biography of Rommel. He always did this, not just to set an example but so that he would know what was going on at the sharp end, rather than relying on reports. Occasionally he'd mess up - he'd be off trying to invade Egypt with half a dozen tanks while the rest of his men were trying to stop the entire Eighth Army from obliterating the Afrika Korps - but it worked surprisingly often.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. I love this. It kind of reminds me of the fan parody comics by adestroy: http://adestroy.tumblr.com/post/65436992086/i-wish-i-understood-my-fascination-with-scotty

[skippydelicious]

The senior guys going on the away missions makes more sense if you see it as Hornblower in Space. Its the great age of sail, only amongst the stars. Apparently it was the thing to leave a (very) junior officer or even the Bosun to mind things while the ship was at anchor. Of course that also got Captain Cook, England's second greatest maritime hero, killed by angry natives while on a landing party so...

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the show actually did show some of the problems with the 'all the senior officers on away missions' thing. In 'The Deadly Years' all four senior officers go down (Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty), and all of them get infected with an ageing disease, which leaves no-one able to legally disagree when the more senior but less experienced non-crew officer (they were transporting him to his starbase, he didn't usually have ship command) to call a genuinely needed competency hearing on the increasingly senile Kirk, take command of the ship, and fly them all into the Neutral Zone. Spock lasts longer than the other three, but knows at the rate of ageing that he isn't going to be competent to take command himself for long, so he's the one forced to essentially strip his rapidly ageing and bewildered friend publicly of command.

I mean, not that anyone learned from this episode, and the crew proves themselves right over the outsider in the end, but at least the show did acknowledge the problems.