Somethings never change

[old man emu]

Have you ever noticed that in the original Star Trek series, Spock and McCoy address Kirk by his Given Name, usually the contracted version, "Jim", but Scotty, the Chief Engineer mainly uses the honorific, "Captain". Just goes to show that as much as things change, things remain the same. By the 23rd Century, the engineers who make flight possible are still being looked down upon by the blokes up front pulling the handles and pushing the buttons.

 

Given the many examples of Kirk's having feet of clay, is he really in honorificabilitudinitatibus?

[facthunter]

Yes I can back that up. I was called into the Senior Regional Captains office to be reprimanded for being on" first name terms" (Unquote) with the despatch engineers. I stated it was the best way to find out what's really wrong with the aeroplane and walked out.. Nev

[Marty_d]

10 hours ago, old man emu said:

Have you ever noticed that in the original Star Trek series, Spock and McCoy address Kirk by his Given Name, usually the contracted version, "Jim", but Scotty, the Chief Engineer mainly uses the honorific, "Captain". Just goes to show that as much as things change, things remain the same. By the 23rd Century, the engineers who make flight possible are still being looked down upon by the blokes up front pulling the handles and pushing the buttons.

 

Given the many examples of Kirk's having feet of clay, is he really in honorificabilitudinitatibus?

You have to admit, Kirk was a bit of a drongo.  Spock had ten times the intellect, they wouldn't have been in half the scrapes if he'd been captain.

[facthunter]

Then it would be boring and no one would watch it. It's cockpit resource management. Nev