> >Kettering broke in, "Starfleet Command as it stands now is a problem, with
the select few that are either corrupt or ineffective. It is those few
bad
apples that have spoiled the bunch for most of us." He had finished with
his chuckle.
"I think that can be said of the high command of the fleet in generrral,"
she said, her ire up now. She wished now, more than ever, they were
Klingons. She'd end this once and for all. "Prrresent company excluded,
of courrrse," she said, overly polite. She'd give him the same apathetic
courtesy he'd given her. "Ineffectiveness, howeverrr, is something that
should not be judged hastily. The people I am eliminating frrrom my
deparrrtment have a historrry of yearrrs of lacklusterrr perrrforrmance.
Adirrral Lasiterrr, on the otherrr hand, has a carrreerr of
harrrd-worrrking, diligent command. Judging him on less than a yearrr in
a
position that has stymied his prrredecessorrs forrr yearrrs and is an
almost insurrrmountable task seems like an excuse to me. Just what
method,
exactly, would you use, Admirrral, to rrremove Lasiterrr frrrom his
position?"
"That would depend on the situation at the time. While I am not endorsing violence or
other drastic methods, I am not afraid of their use either."
There, it was done. Kettering had put down his cards.
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Chris
GM- SPD & JSOC
