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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] But, A.) I just don't like that idea. B.) That obviously wasn't the Federation Council proper. Or, rather, shouldn't be. I realize that that's the implication the movie wants to deliver, but I'm suggesting that it doesn't necessarily do it so strongly we can't ignore it if we want to, and, well, I want to, for a couple reasons which others may agree or disagree with to varying degrees. One, it just wasn't a very impressive set. It lacked the grandeur of, say, the UN General Assembly or the US Congress, and didn't have the compact franticness of the UK House of Commons. So, I mean, I don't like it on aesthetic grounds. Well, so what, you might ask. Well, it was filled with Starfleet personnel, which doesn't make much sense, unless you're one of those boring "Star Trek as fascist dream" people. And, finally, I doubt the Federation Council proper would waste its time on a hearing like that. That's what you have committees and subcommittees for. So, I mean, this is mostly an issue of personal taste, with some minor 'textual' examples thrown in, but it seems to me reasonable, perhaps even likely, that what we saw wasn't the Federation Council, and could in fact be some distance removed from that body's usual meeting place. (Of course, it doesn't make much sense to have an officer, even an Admiral, tried personally by the head of state. So who knows.) On an unrelated note, I dreaded those Centauri throne room scenes from Babylon 5 for similar reasons, despite having some of the strongest acting in the series. The supreme leader of an interstellar empire (even one in decline) holding court in a hallway decorated like a set from a Shannon Tweed film? Yes, yes, budget, etc. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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