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The Traitor
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607 posts		 Oct-31-13, 05:50 PM (EST)
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"In Which Life Imitates Art"
 
   The USS Zumwalt, a new destroyer, has a familiar sounding captain...

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"She's old and lame and barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory


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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: In Which Life Imitates Art MuninsFire Oct-31-13 1
     RE: In Which Life Imitates Art cyberpagan Nov-01-13 2
         RE: In Which Life Imitates Art Prince Charon Nov-04-13 5
             RE: In Which Life Imitates Art BLUE Nov-08-13 6
                 RE: In Which Life Imitates Art Polychrome Nov-09-13 7
  RE: In Which Life Imitates Art SliderDaFeral Nov-02-13 3
     RE: In Which Life Imitates Art Mercutio Nov-02-13 4
         RE: In Which Life Imitates Art Prince Charon Nov-22-13 8

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MuninsFire
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66 posts		 Oct-31-13, 06:19 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   At least his middle initial is not "T"...

True story: I went to high school with a guy with the first name of "Kirk"...after the Enterprise's captain, rather than after the star of Spartacus. His dad was a Trekkie. Between that and a truly epic case of acne, he never did have much of a chance for a social life. Nice guy, though; I still talk to him now and then.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome
decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river,
ran
Through caverns measureless to
man
Down to a sunless sea


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cyberpagan
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2. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   At least he wasn't made Captain of the "Enterprise" :D

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Prince Charon
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5. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   >At least he wasn't made Captain of the "Enterprise" :D
>

Give him time, the new one isn't launched, yet.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington


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BLUE
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6. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   >>At least he wasn't made Captain of the "Enterprise" :D
>>
>
>Give him time, the new one isn't launched, yet.
>
He's not a pilot; Enterprise has already been assigned to a new carrier, and only former pilots captain carriers.

-D-

"I don't tell you how to remove bullets. Don't you tell me how to make killing machines back into little girls." Captain Kaff Tagon of Tagon's Toughs, Schlock Mercenary


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Polychrome
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7. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   >>>At least he wasn't made Captain of the "Enterprise" :D
>>>
>>
>>Give him time, the new one isn't launched, yet.
>>
>He's not a pilot; Enterprise has already been assigned to a new
>carrier, and only former pilots captain carriers.

Also, since all of the big carriers like the Enterprise are nuclear, he would have to have a nuclear engineering qualification.

Polychrome


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SliderDaFeral
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53 posts		 Nov-02-13, 01:46 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-02-13 AT 01:46 PM (EDT)
 
And from all scuttlebutt reports, he has more in common with Captain Styles than his famous namesake.

-- Slider Da Feral (NYAR!)


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Mercutio
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4. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   Well, that's to be expected. Kirk would probably not have even made it through Annapolis, and if he somehow became a commissioned officer in the USN his career would likely have ended in a DD. Officers like Styles, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen.

Kirk only really works in the far future or in the Age of Sail. There ain't a lot of room for guys like him in the context of a modern real-life navy.

-Merc
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Prince Charon
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8. "RE: In Which Life Imitates Art"
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   LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-13 AT 03:35 AM (EST)
 
In the early seasons, he's not nearly as maverick... unless you're talking about the twit from nuTrek, who wouldn't have made it to Lt JG in the classic series.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington


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