Oh, man, I can’t believe I forgot about Admiral Leyton from DS9’s “Homefront” and “Paradise Lost”! He was trying to replace the Federation’s civilian government with a Starfleet military dictatorship. Scared people into believing the Founders had invaded Earth. Ordered Red Squad to sabotage the main power grid. Ordered one of his starships to fire on the Defiant after lying to them and telling them it had been taken over by the Founders.
He even had the audacity to say to Sisko, while standing in Sisko’s home in New Orleans, “Go home. You don’t belong here.”
I’m trying to determine if I’ve been insulted. I like smurfs. Well smurfettes anyway.
Of course Edith was evil but Captain Man-whore shagged her anyway.
Wiki agrees with you about the communicator, so I’ll slink away.
ETA: Kirk should have been court-martialed for allowing Scotty to beam tribbles onto the Klingon ship, an indisputable war-crime! So, there!!!
The interesting thing around the same time Robert Foxworth played General William Hague on the other space station in outer space "Babylon 5". Hague was correctly suspicious of President Clark and Psi and organized resistance against the declaration of martial law. His character got killed off screen because Foxworth's agent booked him on DS9.
Ever since watching this episode as a kid I found Wesley’s confusion so ridiculous. Let’s see, the Enterprise was just fitted with a new, experimental computer system whose purpose is to control every aspect of a starship, and now that starship has gone crazy and is killing everyone. Ya think?!? The order from Star Fleet to destroy it makes perfect sense (that was James Doohan’s voice BTW), but Wesley’s incredulous attempt to ask Kirk what ‘he’s’ doing defies explanation. Just ‘plot drive’ for extra drama…
I was vacillating between Cdre. Wesley in “The Ultimate Computer” and Adm Cartwright in STIV, but Cartwright has to take the cake.
I can overlook wanting to take on the Klingons[sup]*[/sup] while they were weakened. They’d do the same to you. However, when you throw in two assassination attempts (one successful), I have to draw the line.
I don’t care what anyone says, the Klingons as a villain sucked, and they sucked more as allies.
Well, there was an “off” switch installed on the command chair. The Commodore may not have been able to imagine that M5 could have rigged a bypass. (Did it reverse the polarity of sumthin’?)
Sulu should have just said “Commodore, you’re relieved!” and taken command, just like in The Caine Mutiny (and “The Doomsday Machine,” for that matter).
I’m going to be predictive. Since Chris Pine’s rebooted Kirk is now the worst Starfleet captain in the universe, sooner or later he will become the worst Starfleet admiral in the universe.
I always found the joy at the end of this episode as ridiculous. Let’s see: a major scientific experiment failed completely, one starship severely damaged, another also damaged, maybe 500 people dead, your top scientist is insane. But hey, James T Kirk saved the day. Romulan ale for all hands!
I don’t know if an admiral is responsible but in the pilot for DS9 wasn’t the space station only given six photon torpedoes?
Kirk came to my mind quickly as well. In The Motion Picture, he meatballed his way into command of the Enterprise and yoinked the chair away from Decker just 'cuz.
Removing Kirk, Janeway, and Neelix from the running though, I think Admiral Haftel is probably due to be Patient Zero in the new Starfleet Admiral Punching Protocol. There’s not a lot of nuance in him, he just wants Lal and that’s about it. Just about all of the admirals exist to bring a little conflict to the main characters but at least most of them had a purpose or reasoning beyond “Want robot.”
With the new treaty with the Cardassians, she forcibly removed federation colonists from their homes (if they were unlucky enough to be on the wrong side of the newly redrawn border) and abandoned the rest in the DMZ leaving them vulnerable to the Cardassians who were not keeping up their end of the bargain.
When the colonists began defending themselves, they (The Maquis) were branded enemies of the state.
You treat your people like your people, and the enemy like the enemy…not the other way around.
I thought that the Admiral in *Insurrection *was actually in the right. They are fighting a war for survival and a planet is discovered which causes rapid healing and deagaing? And Picard wants to stop them because…I dunno, the fountain of MILF?
I can’t agree. Nechayev didn’t make that policy, and she acknowledges to Picard that it’s unfair. She was following the orders of the civilian government, just as Picard was following hers.