Is Starfleet a military or not?

[Timo]

A distributed command system would actually minimize such dangers: verbal commands (whether over the intercom or over the shoulder) would play a minimal role, and shared data of all sorts would be available to all, suitably pre-digested but also filtered for possible signs of danger of error.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Richard Baker]

Yeah, things didn't work out too well for that fire control officer (otherwise known as Danno) with the yips, and presumably the rest of the world afterwards, on that claustrophobic bridge in the Bedford Incident, did they?

"If he fires one, I'll fire one!"

"Fire One!"



Love that movie