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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
True... but Star Trek (TOS and Next Generation particularly) also went out of its way to describe minute details of everything they did, disguised as military convention--specific orders and detailing actions to command structure, and of course, the conference room discussions that often included the ship's doctor, who only seemed to be needed there in order to say "I'm a doctor... not an engineer! Just what does that mean?" and providing room for any necessary exposition.
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Forget the presence of the doctor. Start with the Captain and most of his senior command structure beaming down to unknown conditions on a planetary surface to investigate something. I'd expect that behavior to get at least the Captain relieved of duty
really fast in a sensible navy.
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Dennis