Posted by Nicholas at January 17, 2008 12:02 AMSometimes I suspect that everyone under the age of 50 or so thinks they need to get a promotion every few years in order to think of themselves as successful just because the characters on Star Trek all did.
It was noticeable that in the early series, pretty much every StarFleet admiral was either corrupt, insane or a traitor. They only seemed to ease off this unusual hiring policy once Kirk, Scotty, et al reached pensionable age.
Stuart Burnfield, posting to the Techwr-L mailing list, 2007-10-24
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