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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Warped1701: [QB] [QUOTE]A declaration of war? Let's see - that means the Romulans declared war in "The Neutral Zone", "The Defector" and "The Enemy." [/QUOTE]Let us also not forget that the Romulans declared war in "Balance of Terror", and the [i]Enterprise[/i] -no bloody A-B-C-orrr-D- declared war in "The Enterprise Incident". Were Starfleet to review Varley's actions at a Board of Inquiry (can't give a dead man a court-martial!) they would probably ask themselves two questions (the same that have been bandied about this thread quite often); 1. Did Varley's violating the Neutral Zone threaten Federation security more, or would it be more threatened by the Iconian technology? It can go both ways. If the technology on Iconia simply left there, it's entirely possible that eventually the Romulans might discover it giving them an extreme technological advantage if they could use it. On the other hand, they might never discover it, but is it worth the risk to let sleeping dogs lie when that dog could destroy the Federation? I'm willing to say no, and that the [i]possibility[/i] of war with the Romulans is better than giving them access to Iconia. 2. Was the loss of the [i]Yamato[/i] due to negligence on the part of the commanding officer? This one is a little more undefined, as if Varley had never gone to Iconia his ship would never have been infected. In fact the only reason the [i]Enterprise[/i] survived was because Data's infection by the virus gave them the cure. We shouldn't forget that [i]Enterprise[/i] was also a ticking time-bomb until that happened. There are too many unknowns out in the depths of space (i.e. should Commodore Decker be accused of negligence of the loss of the [i]Constellation[/i]?). However, he [i]was[/i] negligent in that he did not take the opportunity to evacuate non-essential personnel from his ship when he had the chance. Even if [i]Yamato's[/i] transporters were off-line, [i]Enterprise's[/i] weren't. Getting as many people off a ship that's about to tear itself apart should be a primary concern for the commanding officer. Simply put, was Varley negligent in the loss of [i]Yamato[/i]? I don't think so, in that he never could have forseen the circumstances which led up to her eventual loss (much like Decker could never have expected to run into the Doomsday Machine). Was he negligent of the deaths of the 1000+ people aboard? Absolutely. He had the chance to send as many as he could to safety, and he didn't. YMMV. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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