> > >"So you would have kept all of those starships
> > bottled up in port while the
> > station went critical. If the >station would have
> > exploded we would have
> > lost how many starships? Eight? Ten? That is
> > >unacceptable, totally
> > unacceptable. To even give that as an answer
> > demonstrates a clear lack of
> > >appreciation for the full situation. To think
> that
> > giving as poor an
> > answer as that, then standing behind >regulation
> as
> > if that were
> > justification is even more beyoond
> comprehension.",
> > Lasiter stopped to sigh.
> > >He was quite unhappy, but had yet to raise his
> > voice to a yell.
> >
> > >"However, I will remind you both of a fundamental
> > operational principle of
> > starbase command. You >don't keep your ships in
> > port when they would be
> > safer elsewhere. If those starships had a fighting
> > >chance of getting to
> > safety, then they should have been cut loose. This
> > is not a hard concept,
> > Admiral, >Commander. It is a fundamental. A basic
> > concept. Since you like
> > the regulations so much, >Commander Shevab you can
> > look this up. Section 90,
> > paragraph 9 of the Starfleet Operations Manual
> > >states just what I have told
> > you. Admiral Renaud, so you don't feel left out,
> > take a look at Section 1,
> > >paragraph 10, which states, and I quote, 'It is
> the
> > obligation of all
> > officers in command positions to see >the
> successful
> > and safe operation of
> > their command. This responsibility covers both
> > personnel and >material. All
> > responsibilities of the Commanding Officer are
> > considered secondary to this
> > duty-the >safety of one's command and those that
> > serve within it.'", Lasiter
> > gave both of them an oppertunity to >comment.
> > Hopefully they would use it
> > wisely.
> >
> > "Understood-I accept full responsibility, Sir."
> > Lasiter was correct-he had
> > failed. There was not much else to say-he let it
> > hang.
> >
> {Sir, that is one of the numerous contradictory
> Fleet
> Regulations,, as you HUmans say"Good judgement comes
> from experience,, but experience only comes from
> poor
> judgement.". Had any of those ships exploded, we
> would
> not be having this conversation. Structural fields
> were low enough that even the Laliirian Frigate
> 'XXzpPt" had blow while in the Bay, we would have
> had
> complete structural failure that I could not have
> been
> able to compensate for even while integrated into
> the
> station systems. The orders from Operations were to
> secure all stations.
> I belive it was a misconception that the sabotuers
> may
> have been on one of the ships."
>
> "That was a possibility, but so was the possibility
> that the station would go up in a great big fire
> ball. If that were to have happened the starships
> inside, along with the would be saboteur, would be
> ionized gas or debris. However, that is not the
> point. The whole point of this conversation is that
> the actions taken during the emergency could have
> cost Starfleet far more than some station damage and
> the few injuries and deaths that we had. It could
> have cost the Federation the back bone of the
> defences of sector 001." From the mannerisms of the
> CinC, it was evident that he was still quite pissed.
>
> { You humans, as the Vulcans say are "Quite
> Illogical". You give orders that are both expected
> to
> be followed and Not followed. How is one to know
> what is to be done?}
>
> "As us illogical humans say, You're damned if you
> do, and damned if you don't. Or more to the
> regulations, look after the safety of your crew
> first. Investigations can be taken care of after
> the situation is under control."
>
"In the future you will be expected to not only think of the immediate situtation, but
the big picture. Kicking the ships out of port does not necessarily mean that any
would be saboteur will escape, just that the ships are out of port in the solor system
at a safe distance. Let's keep our eyes on the ball here, as the expression goes. Is
there anything else you two have to report?", Lasiter asked the two of them.
{response}
Co-GM of the Spacedock/JSOC Game
Characters:
Adm. Samuel Lasiter,
RAdm. Markus Garibaldi,
Ambassador Marconis,
LCDR Donovan Black, and a host of others.
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