The man was a menace with 17 violations.

if kirks enterprise can only sustain warp 6 and that's only 216 times the speed of light and kirks 5 year mission is really 2 1/2 years since they have to go there and back.

if it takes kirks enterprise around 7 days just to go 4 light years this means that in all that time kirks enterprise can only venture out 521 lightyears before turning around.....

i mean i know in the shows it went all over the place and breakneck speed but if we go by the rules of the show itself it only wenet 521 lightyears out.

https://youtu.be/RpaSFC19xME?si=UbxGmn40Qte3iBJT Last summer I watched TOS for the first time (some episodes were a rewatch) I decided to edit it as one big video so delete if not allowed

Episode: "Dagger of the Mind" - TOS, 110

Airdate: November 3, 1966

Written by S. Bar-David; Directed by Vincent McEveety

Brief summary: "A routine visit to the Tantalus Penal Colony proves dangerous for Kirk and an Enterprise psychiatrist."

Memory Alpha link: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dagger_of_the_Mind_(episode)

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in the beginning of the episode when they are calling to eminiar 7 that they will be visiting them and are told to stay away via code 7-10. ambassador foxx is like no you will ignore and we will go. kirk said uh we could get involved in an interplanetary war we could die. foxx is like i don't care about dying i want that treaty. Now my question is couldn't kirk call the admiralty and request instructions like they got a code 7-10 which im assuming in TOS era is interstellar standard code for stay the f-ck away or be blown out of the sky could the admiralty have overriden foxx or does foxx's ambassadorship even override starfleet command?

i always found this kind of interesting between militaries that are under civilian control and the politicians are over the military (starfleet) but starfleet still has to do their job and stuff but how could they if politicans could play micro managing or monday night quarterback with them. just something that i thought was something to bring up ... if it never got brought up before.

What do you think?