HIGHLY recommended: "The Bedford Incident"

[Forbin]

I've always used the end of the Bedford Incident as an example of just how dangerous an overbearing boss can be.

Funny. I've always looked at it as an example of how dangerous an incompetent underling can be.

Hmmm...

 

[Forbin]

So you blame the poor harassed and badgered James McArthur for firing that torpedo, rather than the browbeating hardassness of the captain?

 

[A beaker full of death]

So you blame the poor harassed and badgered James McArthur for firing that torpedo, rather than the browbeating hardassness of the captain?

I do. Welcome to the navy, Dan-o.

 

[trevanian]

If the BEDFORD had McCoy as CMO, maybe it wouldn't've happened. Then again, McCoy berates Kirk fiercely AFTER Bailey has his blowup/blowout, which is too little/too late IMO.

If they had done corbomite later on, it would have been a lot different, I think. After seeing OBSESSION, you'd figure that Kirk would be less fierce in his criticism, not more, if he saw himself in Bailey (that is, if Garrovick was the figure he seems to be.) Either that, or he is protecting himself by trying to make sure Bailey doesn't get him killed the way he thought he got Garrovick killed.

 

[A beaker full of death]

If the BEDFORD had McCoy as CMO, maybe it wouldn't've happened. Then again, McCoy berates Kirk fiercely AFTER Bailey has his blowup/blowout, which is too little/too late IMO.

You don't step up and interrupt your superior officer, and you don't comment on what he's done in front of the crew, regardless of friendship. Even McCoy is military enough to know that. I was always amazed that the TNG writers didn't get that.

 

[trevanian]

If the BEDFORD had McCoy as CMO, maybe it wouldn't've happened. Then again, McCoy berates Kirk fiercely AFTER Bailey has his blowup/blowout, which is too little/too late IMO.

You don't step up and interrupt your superior officer, and you don't comment on what he's done in front of the crew, regardless of friendship. Even McCoy is military enough to know that. I was always amazed that the TNG writers didn't get that.

Yet McCoy DOES exactly that ... after quietly upbraiding Kirk in private, he brings it up fiercely ON THE BRIDGE, and pisses Kirk off enough to make him snap back so that EVERYbody turns their head (either that or they are responding to the music cue.)