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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
At least with Sisko, when he went to fight someone hand to hand it was convincing. I hate to stereotype, but in a room full of Klingons I'd put my money on Angry Black Man vs Kirk-Fu vs Shakespeare vs Elbow-to-the-Gut Janeway.
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You know I liked the original Kirks flying drop kick. Captain Archer would sic his stupid dog on his enemy.
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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
On a separate note, can anyone explain to me how Kirk, fresh out of the Academy as presumably an Ensign, ends up in command of a starship so quickly? Surely there's a few Lieutenants through Commanders on the flagship of the fleet that would have stepped in? They can't all be enlisted...
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It has happened but only when the whole command crew has been killed.
There was a court marshall of a young medical officer(who had a rank equivalent of 2nd lieutenant) who during a ship battle in the 17 or 18 hundreds took his wounded captain down to give him medical aid during a ship to ship battle. The rest of the officers were killed and command fell to him, and he was actually charged and tried because he was unknowingly in command of the ship when it was surrendered.
But I thought it was a stupid piece of writing to put him in Command, especially on a major combat vessel like the Enterprise. (From what I understand, Ensign isn't even really a command rank. Its equivalent to a trainee at Macdonalds)
An ensign could end up in Command of a shuttle if the officer in charge and only other member of the crew was killed, but nothing like a ship where pretty much every officer outranks him.
It was weak they could have promoted him in the next movie.